The New Hampshire Department of Corrections, NHDOC, runs an Inmate Locator built from the records of its Offender Records Office in Concord; a search takes all or part of a last name, a first name or both. A result lists the active sentence by the title of the statute the person was convicted under, with the sentencing court and docket number, and shows the original minimum and original maximum release dates for that sentence only; for inmates with pending consecutive sentences, technical parole violations or sentences from another state served in New Hampshire, those dates may be missing because they are unavailable or not yet calculated. The locator explains its own codes: a maximum date of 2999-12-31 means up to a maximum of life, 3000-12-31 means life without parole, the minimum parole date is the earliest possible parole on that sentence and not the actual one, and a name on the list means the person is currently incarcerated. The crime itself is a court record under Part 1, Article 8 of the state constitution, obtained from the sentencing court by the docket number shown.
A person held before trial or on a county sentence is in a county house of corrections, found through the New Hampshire county pages; the department's locator covers only the state prison system. Someone on probation or parole is supervised by the Division of Field Services through eleven district offices aligned with the superior courts, which also runs administrative home confinement with electronic monitoring and collects the fines, fees and restitution a court orders, and the Adult Parole Board decides early release.
- Search: the NHDOC Inmate Locator by name, showing the active sentence, its statute, court and docket number and the original minimum and maximum dates.
- Mail: a letter of up to ten pages in blue or black ink, with a return name and address, to the inmate's name and DOC ID at the facility's own address, such as NH State Prison, PO Box 14, Concord, NH 03302, or 138 East Milan Road, Berlin, NH 03570 for the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility.
- Calls and messages: through ConnectNetwork by GTL, now ViaPath, under site ID 222 for AdvancePay phone, PIN debit, messaging, tablets and video visits scheduled at nhdoc.gtlvisitme.com; email reaches an inmate through the vendor at an address only the inmate can give.
- Visits: two a week, for people the inmate asks to have listed, after a notarized application sent to the inmate, not the department, and a criminal background check of about four weeks.
Written by SearchSystems.net from New Hampshire's own systems: the New Hampshire Department of Corrections Inmate Locator, the department's Inmate Communications page, the department's Visit an Inmate page, the department's Community Reentry page, the department's Volunteers page, the department's home page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The facilities and their mailing addresses
The communications page gives a separate mailing address for each place an inmate may be held, each starting with the inmate's name and DOC ID number. In Concord: the NH State Prison for Men at PO Box 14, Concord, NH 03302; the NH Correctional Facility for Women, NHCFW, at 42 Perimeter Road, Concord, NH 03301; the North End Transitional Housing Unit, the Transitional Work Center and the Residential Treatment Unit, each at PO Box 14, Concord, NH 03302; the Secure Psychiatric Unit, addressed by patient name and patient number, at PO Box 2828, Concord, NH 03302; and the Shea Farm Transitional Housing Unit at 60 Iron Works Road, Concord, NH 03302.
In Berlin, the Northern NH Correctional Facility at 138 East Milan Road, Berlin, NH 03570, and in Manchester the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit at 126 Lowell Street, Manchester, NH 03103. The department's reentry page explains the last of them: the Transitional Work Center and the three transitional housing units, Shea Farm, Calumet and North End, take inmates in the last two years of a sentence, the work center for supervised building trades training, work and job shadowing and the housing units for jobs in the community.
The department says on its home page that it is building a replacement for the State Prison for Men and reports a first place ranking in corrections from U.S. News and World Report.
Mail and email: ten pages, blue or black ink
Under administrative rule Cor 314, on inmate mail, electronic messaging and package services, an inmate may receive letters of up to ten pages written in blue or black ink, and every piece of mail must show a return name and address. Email reaches an inmate through the contracted vendor, and the inmate's email address must come directly from the inmate, who has no access to the internet.
Calls, messages and video visits: site ID 222
The department contracts most communication to ConnectNetwork by GTL, now ViaPath, under site ID 222, which must be quoted when a trust fund or PIN debit deposit is made through the automated phone system. The services are AdvancePay phone accounts, PIN debit, messaging, tablets, visitation scheduling and video visitation, with video visits scheduled at nhdoc.gtlvisitme.com; inmates may call out, and the department publishes the ConnectNetwork apps for Android and Apple as the way in.
Visiting: two a week, after the application and the check
Visiting is a privilege, and the visiting page sets the terms: an inmate may have two visits a week, visits from attorneys, clergy and other official visitors are not counted, and the inmate may list an unlimited number of family members. Every visitor must be approved by department staff after a criminal background check, the inmate must ask for the person to be added, and the visitor fills out the application, attachment 3 of the visiting rule Cor 305 for an adult and attachment 5 for a child, has it notarized and sends it to the inmate, never to the department, giving a full name, address, phone, date of birth and an identifying number from a driver's license, military or non driver ID and certifying that no court or parole board has ordered the two apart; the process takes about four weeks.
A visitor under 18 comes with an approved adult family member or legal guardian on the inmate's list, a child escorted by a DHHS or DCYF worker needs attachment 8 of policy PPD 1010, and an adult who will bring minors to visit an inmate held for or with a history of crimes against children must complete the department's Safeguard Training, a virtual class covering visiting room rules, preparing a child, grooming behaviors, coercion and reporting, offered in 2026 on March 27, May 8, June 19, July 31, September 11, October 23 and November 20 at 9:30 a.m.; the trained chaperone is the only one who may bring the children.
Inmates in the Reception and Diagnostic Unit get one visit a week after medical clearance until they receive a permanent housing assignment, a dress code applies, short notice schedule changes are posted on the department's social media, and when read the page carried a notice of a temporary closure of the State Prison for Men's visit room, a visiting schedule for the women's facility and a Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility schedule effective July 14, 2026; video visits run through GTL VisitMe.
Parole, reentry and the people who come in
The Division of Rehabilitative Services starts reentry inside the prisons with education through the Corrections Special School District, Granite State High School and the Career and Technology Center, case management in every facility, two parole offices and correctional industries; once a person is paroled the Division of Field Services takes over, supervising probation and parole, administrative home confinement with location checks by electronic monitoring and home visits, pre sentence investigations and annulments, with case technicians collecting court ordered fines, fees and restitution.
The department also runs a volunteer program, with hundreds of volunteers screened by a criminal records and motor vehicle check and trained at an orientation, applied for through the Volunteer Program at PO Box 1806, Concord, NH 03302 or volunteer@doc.nh.gov and (603) 271-2494.
Reading a New Hampshire result
A locator result means a state prison sentence being served now, with the statute, court and docket number that lead to the court file and the original dates that may not match the parole board's eventual decision; no result means a county house of corrections, probation, parole or release. The DOC ID and the facility's own box go on the letter, site ID 222 on the deposit, and the visit waits on a notarized form handed to the inmate and about four weeks of checking.
Questions about finding an inmate in New Hampshire
Related New Hampshire records
The locator is one of the New Hampshire records this site covers: the New Hampshire arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers the superior and circuit courts, the sex offender registry guide covers the State Police registry, and the New Hampshire county pages list each sheriff and house of corrections.