The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, DPSCS, runs the Incarcerated Individual Locator, a first and last name search that gives the housing location of people committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction and currently housed at Division of Correction facilities, at Patuxent Institution and, for some short sentenced offenders, at Division of Pretrial and Detention Services facilities. The department states the limits itself: the locator does not provide information on everyone in DPSCS custody, it may not list some short sentenced individuals who, though committed to the Commissioner, are housed at pretrial facilities, and anyone no longer in custody for any reason, including release or escape, is not listed.
For custody status over time the department points to VINE, the Victim Information and Notification Everyday service, which registers an email, text or phone call to check the custody status of people incarcerated in Maryland. A person held by a county detention center outside the department, in the counties that run their own jails, is found through the Maryland county pages; the department's own pretrial facilities in Baltimore appear in its facility locator.
- Locate: the Incarcerated Individual Locator by name, then the facility locator for the facility's procedures, visiting hours, dress code and map, with a Corrections Phone Directory to download.
- Mail: addressed with the facility acronym and the sender's name and return address, to the facility's mailing address on the mail services page; nothing glued or taped, no stickers or labels except postage, no hard cover books, no cash, money orders, checks or stamps.
- Calls: through ConnectNetwork, the department's authorized deposit and account portal, which creates every phone account; AdvancePay prepaid collect calling to your own number, with the vendor at (877) 650-4249.
- Visits: after the incarcerated individual has served 30 days, for people on the approved visitor list who pass the entry rules on the visitation services page, requested by email to the facility; virtual visits run free on Microsoft Teams after the DPSCS Video Visitation Form.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Maryland's own systems: the DPSCS Incarcerated Individual Locator, the DPSCS facility locator, the DPSCS mail services page, the DPSCS phone services page, the DPSCS visitation services page, the DPSCS in-person visitation page, the DPSCS home page, the Maryland Sex Offender Registry notification resources, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The facilities and where to write
The department is responsible for pretrial detainees, incarcerated individuals and supervised offenders, and its facility locator divides the institutions in two. The detention facilities are all in Baltimore: the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, BCBIC, at 300 East Madison Street; the Chesapeake Detention Facility, CDF, formerly MCAC, at 410 East Madison Street; the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center, MRDCC, at 550 East Madison Street; the Metropolitan Transition Center, MTC, at 954 Forrest Street; and the Youth Detention Center, YDC, at 926 Greenmount Avenue, with the Baltimore Pretrial Complex at 531 East Madison Street on the mailing list as well.
The correctional facilities are the Baltimore City Correctional Center at 901 Greenmount Avenue; the Central Maryland Correctional Facility, formerly CLF, at 7301 Buttercup Road, Sykesville; Dorsey Run Correctional Facility at 2020 Toulson Road, Jessup; the Eastern Correctional Institution at 30420 Revells Neck Road, Westover, with its annex and the Eastern Pre-Release Unit at 700 Flat Iron Square Road, Church Hill; the Jessup Correctional Institution at P.O.
Box 534, Jessup; the Maryland Correctional Institution at Hagerstown at 18601 Roxbury Road and the Maryland Correctional Training Center at 18800 Roxbury Road, both Hagerstown; the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup at 7803 House of Corrections Road; the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women at 7943 Brockbridge Road, Jessup; the Correctional Mental Health Center at Jessup at 7555 Waterloo Road; the North Branch Correctional Institution at 14100 McMullen Highway SW, Cumberland; the Western Correctional Institution, also in Cumberland; Patuxent Institution in Jessup; and the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown.
Every mailing uses the facility acronym, and the mail page shows a properly addressed envelope.
Mail: what gets through
The department says it permits and encourages mail, reading materials and publications consistent with the Constitution, state and federal law and its own policies, and its mail page lists what a letter or book must not contain: anything glued, taped or attached; aftermarket alterations such as paint, crayon, marker, ink, glitter, cloth or string; a label or sticker, address labels included, other than postage to be removed; a biohazard, illicit substance, scent or lipstick; a liquid stain; sexually explicit material; material that references or incites gang activity, violence, riots or racism or threatens the facility; a message that appears to be in code; escape plans or implements; instructions for weapons, illegal substances or breaches of security; information on the theory or design of security or communication systems; materials advocating unions of incarcerated individuals; contraband; and cash, money orders, checks or stamps.
A mailed book may not have a hard cover, pages removed, torn or reattached, or a cover removed or reattached.
Phone accounts through ConnectNetwork
Calls are the most common link between an incarcerated individual and the outside, and the phone page is plain that the department does not set up phone accounts: ConnectNetwork, its authorized deposit and account management portal, creates all of them and answers concerns at (877) 650-4249. The service the department describes is AdvancePay, a prepaid collect account tied to the family member's own number, so that only that number can be called with the funds; several accounts may be opened for people in separate facilities, a call can be received whenever the balance covers at least one minute, text alerts warn of a low balance and auto reload can refill it, each completed call is deducted at once, every call can be accepted or rejected, a one call variation exists for someone expected to be released within 24 to 48 hours of intake or a caller without the minimum deposit, and refunds are available when the individual is released or the account is no longer needed. Deposits go through the ConnectNetwork site or its mobile app.
Visiting: the rules and the page that still carries Phase 1
The visitation services page calls visiting a privilege and sets the social visitation rules: an incarcerated individual must serve a minimum of 30 days before qualifying, and a visitor must be on the approved visitor list, follow the dress code and the facility's posted rules and staff directions, not be a fugitive, have no open arrest warrant, not be under Division of Parole and Probation supervision or on home detention, pose no threat, not be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, present a valid state photo ID at 16 or older, and consent to security protocols that may include a frisk search; visitors 19 and older must be on the approved list and those 18 or younger must be immediate family of the incarcerated individual or of an adult visitor.
The code of conduct requires the visitor badge visible at all times and hands in plain sight on the table, bars cell phones, electronic devices, jewelry including watches, tobacco and alcohol based products, allows only a fast acting rescue medication and up to $10 in $1 bills where the visiting area has a vending machine, ends the visit for anyone who leaves to use the restroom, and denies entry to anyone who refuses a search or fingerprint identification.
The dress code excludes tube, tank and halter tops, see through clothing, miniskirts, shorts, skorts, culottes at or above the kneecap, leotards, spandex and leggings, exposed midriffs and revealing necklines, and all jewelry and piercings except a wedding ring or band or a medical alert tag. The same page still carries the Phase 1 rules it announced as effective July 19, 2021: two visitors per scheduled visit, appointments only, registration opening seven days and closing three days before the visit, a one hour limit, denial for arriving more than 30 minutes late, masks, screening and proof of vaccination, with a hotline at 410.724.5722.
The in-person visitation page says the department is slowly transitioning back to in-person visits with a screening questionnaire, a temperature check and a mask, lists an email address for each facility to request a visit, and noted a statewide cancellation for the snow storm of January 27, 2026. Virtual visits moved from Skype to Microsoft Teams, are free for eligible individuals and authorized visitors, and require the DPSCS Video Visitation Form first.
Contraband is a felony
Under the Criminal Law Article, sections 9-410 and 9-412 through 9-417, it is unlawful to possess, deliver or possess with intent to deliver contraband in a place of confinement, including telecommunication devices, anything to effect an escape, weapons, alcohol, controlled dangerous substances and tobacco, and unlawful to deposit or conceal a telecommunication device in or about a place of confinement for a detained person to obtain.
The department states that violators are arrested and prosecuted and, on conviction, face 3 to 10 years in prison, fines of $1,000 to $5,000, or both. Any visitor found with contraband may be prosecuted and a disruptive visitor is removed and may be barred.
Reading a Maryland result
A locator result names the facility, which fixes the acronym on the envelope, the facility email for a visit request and the hours and dress code on its own page; a blank result means the person is not in the covered facilities, is a short sentenced individual held at a pretrial facility the locator misses, or has been released or escaped, and VINE is the way to be told when that changes. The department's rules set the floor, and each managing official adds the facility's own.
Questions about finding an inmate in Maryland
Related Maryland records
The locator is one piece of the Maryland records this site covers: the Maryland arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers Maryland Judiciary Case Search, the sex offender registry guide covers the DPSCS registry, and the Maryland county pages list each sheriff and detention center.