The Oregon Department of Corrections offers the Oregon Offender Search, OOS, as a service to the public, with a disclaimer that the information is believed accurate but carries no warranty, is updated periodically and may change, and should not be used as an official record by any agency or person; an official or certified copy of an offender record comes through a records request instead. The search takes a complete name or partial names with an asterisk for the unknown part, Johns* for Johnson and Johnsen or St*on for Stenson, Stocton and Stevenson, or the SID number, the state offender identification number that every letter and deposit needs.
The department's home page calls the same tool the Adult in Custody Search and sets beside it the State Police sex offender search, the Oregon Corrections Most Wanted list, an emergency notification form for a family death or serious illness, and the Inspector General's hotline. A person held in a county jail is the sheriff's record, found through the Oregon county pages.
- Search: the Oregon Offender Search by name, with asterisks for partial names, or by SID number; not an official record, which comes by records request.
- Visits: only for people on the adult in custody's approved visiting list, which has no limit, after an application the adult in custody starts with your name, address, date of birth, driver's license number and phone, submitted by email, fax at (503) 373-1173 or mail to the Visiting Services Unit, 3723 Fairview Industrial Drive, Suite 200, Salem, OR 97302, with a criminal records check at 15 and older.
- Calls and mail: calls only through ICSolutions to a number you have validated with the vendor, 30 minutes each, monitored and recorded; letters with the name as the department records it, the SID number, the facility and a full return address, written in pen, pencil or type on white paper in a commercial white envelope, with no cards or postcards.
- Money: commissary and trust deposits through JPay, Access Corrections for ICS Corrections or Telmate, found by name and SID, with the phone account funded through Access Corrections; questions to dldoctrustinfo@doc.oregon.gov.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Oregon's own systems: the Oregon Department of Corrections Oregon Offender Search, the Oregon Offender Search criteria page, the department's home page, the department's Locations and Divisions page, the department's Visiting page, the department's Become a Visitor page, the department's Visiting Guidelines, the department's Visiting Hours page, the department's Visiting Rules page, the department's Contact an Adult in Custody page, the department's Phone Calls page, the department's Letters page, the department's Electronic Communications page, the department's Publications and Books page, the department's Sending Money page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The 12 prisons
The locations page lists all 12 facilities with addresses: Coffee Creek Correctional Facility at 24499 SW Grahams Ferry Road, Wilsonville, the intake center where new adults in custody are assessed and have no visits until moved to a permanent facility; Columbia River Correctional Institution at 9111 NE Sunderland Avenue, Portland; Deer Ridge Correctional Institution at 3920 E Ashwood Road, Madras; Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution at 2500 Westgate, Pendleton; Oregon State Correctional Institution at 3405 Deer Park Drive SE and the Oregon State Penitentiary at 2605 State Street, both in Salem, with Santiam Correctional Institution at 4005 Aumsville Highway SE; Powder River Correctional Facility at 3600 13th Street, Baker City; Snake River Correctional Institution at 777 Stanton Boulevard, Ontario; South Fork Forest Camp at 48300 Wilson River Highway, Tillamook; Two Rivers Correctional Institution at 82911 Beach Access Road, Umatilla; and Warner Creek Correctional Facility at 20654 Rabbit Hill Road, Lakeview.
In person service of legal documents at any facility is now done only by the sheriff of the county where the person is housed.
Visiting: the list, the records check and the dress code
Once an adult in custody has finished intake, they may submit visiting applications for as many people as they wish, with each visitor's full name, address, date of birth, driver's license number and phone number, and they maintain the list and may remove anyone at any time; the visitor completes the application and sends it by email, fax at (503) 373-1173 or mail to the Visiting Services Unit, 3723 Fairview Industrial Drive, Suite 200, Salem, OR 97302.
A criminal records check is run on every applicant 15 and older, the adult in custody is told in writing of an approval or denial and must tell the visitor, and a denied applicant may request an administrative review. A visit scheduled online is still denied if the visitor is not on the list, so the department says to confirm with the person first. At the door a visitor 15 and older shows a driver's license, passport, state, military, school or other government ID; blue denim and blue clothing of any kind are barred, along with revealing, sheer, camouflage and security threat clothing, hats, coats and lined jackets, and clothing must reach the knee, so the department suggests a spare outfit.
Visitors bring quarters for lockers and up to $15 for vending, up to five photos that leave with them, infant items in a clear bag, and emergency medication such as an inhaler left at the sergeant's desk; other medication, tobacco, phones and electronics stay out, and a metal detector medical exception form covers anyone who cannot pass the detector. Rule 291-127-0460 holds the clothing rule.
Visiting hours and scheduling by facility
Hours differ by institution and are posted on the hours page. Coffee Creek's medium custody visits run Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday from 1:30 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m., with a Thursday holiday schedule, and its minimum custody visits on Saturday afternoon and evening and three Sunday sessions. Columbia River holds weekend sessions of about an hour, scheduled in advance through ICS Corrections at (888) 646-9437, with up to three visitors, one visit a week rising to five by points, photos at $2 each and no vending for either side.
Deer Ridge schedules every visit through ICS, Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 7 to 9:30 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m., one visit a day with up to three visitors and 19 slots a session. Eastern Oregon visits Thursday through Sunday in morning and afternoon sessions; Oregon State Correctional Institution on Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday from 8:15 to 10:40 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m., with basic behind glass visits in its disciplinary segregation unit booked 72 hours ahead for an hour with two visitors once a week, and a call to (503) 373-0169 up to 30 days ahead to request both sessions after a drive of more than three hours; and the Oregon State Penitentiary on the same days from 7:15 to 10:15 a.m. and 12:15 to 3:45 p.m., with special management housing visits by appointment through ICSolutions.
Visitors in special housing anywhere need advance scheduling, and each institution keeps a contact for exceptions, answered weekdays from 8 to 4 with voicemails returned within a day.
Calls: validate the number first
ICSolutions provides phone service at every facility, and no one receives a call until the number has been validated through a free ICSolutions account, a step that also unlocks video visits and that department staff cannot do for you; help with validation is at 503-945-0945 by voicemail, and ICSolutions answers at 1-888-506-8407 domestically and 210-501-0115 internationally. Calls are limited to 30 minutes and all are monitored and recorded.
The department warns that carriers' spam tools sometimes block legitimate calls, so it tells families to check spam settings, save the institution's outgoing number as a contact and ask the carrier to clear it, and notes connection trouble for some T-Mobile customers. A family member with a prepaid ICSolutions account can leave a voicemail of up to 60 seconds for 50 cents by calling 1-877-831-0390 with the PIN and the adult in custody's SID.
Electronic messages go through GettingOut on the tablets, with fees and a review for unauthorized content, and video calls are scheduled through ICSolutions from a computer or phone.
Mail: white paper, white envelope, no cards
A letter must carry the adult in custody's name as it appears in department records, no nicknames, the SID number, the correct facility name and address, and a return address with the sender's complete name and address. The mail rule, Division 291-131, was revised effective January 13, 2025: incoming mail is written in pen or lead pencil, typed or photocopied, never in crayon or marker, on standard weight white paper of 20 pounds or less, in a commercially produced white envelope no larger than 9 by 12 inches; greeting cards and postcards are not allowed, and the department refuses colored, oversized, homemade, padded, cardboard or tear resistant envelopes, security feature envelopes with tinted or glued double layers, heavy paper, heavy ink on the address and cardstock.
Questions go to the facility mailroom or doc.mailroom.questions@doc.oregon.gov. The department allows no care packages: a book, a single magazine issue or a newspaper comes only from the publisher, distributor or book vendor, new or used, hard or soft bound, addressed with the name and SID, with no attachments such as CDs or 3D glasses, no risky bindings and no blank notebooks or planners, and anything from a private party is returned unopened; processing takes up to four days.
The mail processing centers handled 70,227 books and 80,265 magazines in 2024 and 66,310 books and 70,481 magazines in 2025, with about 2,800 titles on the rejected list in 2024, 1,800 in 2025 and some 25,000 new titles approved each year. A Friends and Family Special Buy Program, in beta at Coffee Creek and Powder River, lets approved visitors buy commissary items from an online catalog for a general population adult in custody at the right incentive level.
Money: three vendors and the Central Trust
Each adult in custody has a trust account, spent at the commissary on snacks, toiletries and services under Oregon Administrative Rule 291-158, and a communication account for calls, messages and tablet services. Deposits run through the department's contracted vendors: JPay, where the sender finds the person by name and SID and selects a commissary deposit; Access Corrections, which handles deposits for ICS Corrections, with a choice of phone account or commissary account; and Telmate, by name and SID for commissary.
Every vendor takes payment online, by phone or at walk up locations across the state, and the department says to keep the confirmation number. Family can ask Central Trust for deposit details or general account information under the rule, and deposit questions go to dldoctrustinfo@doc.oregon.gov.
Reading an Oregon result
A search result is the department's working record, with the SID and the facility, not an official one. The visiting list has no cap but every name on it passes a records check, the phone number must be validated before the first call, the letter must be plain white inside and out, and the deposit goes by name and SID to one of three vendors.
Questions about finding an inmate in Oregon
Related Oregon records
The search is one of the Oregon records this site covers: the Oregon arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers the Oregon eCourt records, the sex offender registry guide covers the State Police registry, and the Oregon county pages list each sheriff and jail.