Rhode Island is one of six states with a unified correctional system: the Department of Corrections, RIDOC, holds every pretrial detainee and every sentenced person, whatever the sentence length or the crime, at the Adult Correctional Institutions, the ACI, on the Pastore Government Center complex in Cranston, so there is no separate county jail search. Its Incarceration Search opens with a disclaimer that must be accepted: the service gives computerized access to certain information in the department's files as a voluntary service, is not an official record, is provided as is without warranty, may contain inaccuracies or omissions, and may not be relied on, and department employees will not confirm case content or other information from it by telephone. Records and identification questions go to (401) 462-3900, bail information to (401) 462-2261, and the department's general line at 40 Howard Avenue, Cranston, is (401) 462-1000.
The facilities page lists six housing facilities, five for men and one for women, with the Bernadette Building and the Donald Price Medium Security Facility closed, and links a statistics report for each population; the Rhode Island county pages cover the police departments, since the state has no county jails. A result that shows someone at the Intake Service Center usually means a pretrial detainee or a newly sentenced inmate awaiting classification, the center's own page putting the average stay awaiting trial at about 27 days.
- Search: the RIDOC Incarceration Search, behind a disclaimer, for everyone held at the ACI, pretrial or sentenced.
- Mail: to the facility's own inmate mail box in Cranston, RI 02920: P.O. Box 8249 for the Intake Service Center, 8200 for High Security, 8273 for Maximum, 8274 for Moran Medium, 8212 for Minimum and 8312 for the women's facility.
- Money: through Access Corrections by phone at 1-866-345-1884 from $3.95, online from $2.95, at CashPayToday locations, at the Intake Service Center lobby kiosk, or by check or money order payable to RI Department of Corrections with the name and ID to the Inmate Accounts Office, 51 West Road, Building 138, Cranston, RI 02920; depositors must be on the visiting list after a 30 day grace period.
- Visits: a privilege each warden schedules, for people the inmate lists who pass BCI and NCIC background checks, with four long distance visits a year for anyone over 75 miles from Cranston and the taking of visitor photographs suspended until further notice.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Rhode Island's own systems: the Rhode Island Department of Corrections Incarceration Search, the department's Visitation page, the department's Inmate Accounts page, the department's Attorney Visits and Phone Calls page, the department's regulation on access by attorneys and their agents, the department's Facilities page, the Anthony P. Travisono Intake Service Center page, the High Security Center page, the Maximum Security page, the John J. Moran Medium Security Facility page, the Minimum Security page, the Gloria McDonald Women's Facility page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The six facilities, their phones and their mail boxes
Every facility sits in Cranston, RI 02920, and each has its own inmate mail box. The Anthony P. Travisono Intake Service Center, 18 Slate Hill Road, 401-462-2285, mail to P.O. Box 8249, is the maximum security jail for men, holding pretrial detainees, newly sentenced inmates awaiting classification and sentenced protective custody, with 1,148 beds, about 706 commitments a month, about 50 inmates sent to court each day and about 20 a week transferred to other facilities, renamed on April 22, 2010 and reporting an average population of 868 in fiscal 2024.
The High Security Center, 54 Power Road, 401-462-2028, P.O. Box 8200, opened in 1981 as a supermax for close custody with a Rehabilitation Treatment Unit, 166 beds and an average of 80 held in fiscal 2024. Maximum Security, 1375 Pontiac Avenue, 401-462-2053, P.O. Box 8273, is the state's oldest prison, opened in 1878 on the Auburn plan with every cell in one main building, 466 beds behind a wall with five towers, for long sentences and for people moved in from other facilities for serious discipline.
The John J. Moran Medium Security Facility, 51 West Road, 401-462-3771, P.O. Box 8274, built from 1990 to 1992 on 29 acres, has the most beds of any facility, 1,186, with garment, upholstery, license plate, carpentry and auto body shops. Minimum Security, 16 Howard Avenue, 401-462-2162, P.O. Box 8212, opened in 1978 in a converted hospital building and grew to a 710 bed complex by 1992, where every inmate not medically excused works inside, on work release, on public service projects or is seeking work.
The Gloria McDonald Women's Facility, 20 Fleming Road, 401-462-0787, P.O. Box 8312, opened in December 2010 for women awaiting trial and in minimum, medium and work release custody. Each facility page posts its visiting schedule as a document dated October 2026 and sends video visitation schedules to the department's Facebook page.
Inmate accounts: who may deposit and how
An inmate may not hold money, so everything brought in at commitment, earned in prison or sent by family is held in trust by the Inmate Accounts unit, spent on commissary, periodicals and money sent home, with balances visible to the inmate at the kiosks and to nobody else. The accounts page limits depositors to people on the inmate's visiting list, with a 30 day grace period after commitment during which anyone may deposit, and allows two money purposes only names on top of the nine authorized visitors, meant for out of state family and friends who pass a background check but cannot visit.
Deposits go through Access Secure Deposits: by phone at 1-866-345-1884 around the clock with bilingual agents, from $3.95, online at accesscorrections.com or its apps, from $2.95, with MasterCard and Visa debit and credit cards, at CashPayToday walk in locations enrolled at 844-340-2274, at the lobby kiosk of the Travisono Intake Service Center, or in person with photo identification at the Inmate Accounts Office, 51 West Road, Building 138, beside the Moran facility, on weekdays from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m.; by mail, a check, bank draft or money order payable to RI Department of Corrections with the inmate's name and ID number on the memo line goes to the same office, and a self addressed stamped envelope brings back deposit slips.
The Inmate Accounts Unit answers at (401) 462-2670 and will not say how much an inmate has or who is on the visiting list.
Visiting: a privilege on each warden's schedule
The visitation page calls every visit, in person or by video, a privilege the administration may approve, deny, suspend or revoke, cancel or amend at any time, and leaves each warden to set the days, times, place, length, number of weekly visits and number of visitors, under the visits policy 24.03, regulation 240-RICR-20-00-1 in force since August 28, 2018; the schedules are posted on each facility's page and on Facebook, and the taking of visitor photographs was suspended until further notice when read.
Both awaiting trial and sentenced inmates may have visitors, and a regular visitor must be on the inmate's list, which the inmate requests, after passing both the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the national NCIC background checks. A person with a felony record, a pending charge, a misdemeanor drug record, a nolo contendere plea or on probation cannot visit unless an immediate family member, a parent, grandparent, sibling, spouse including common law, child or grandchild, and even then only with written approval from the Assistant Director of Institutions and Operations or the facility warden.
Minors may visit, with written parental permission and an adult at all times when not with a parent or guardian, a birth certificate for identification and, for a minor brought by another adult, the parent signing at the reception desk on the first visit. Anyone more than 75 miles from Cranston counts as long distance and may make four such visits in a calendar year on the warden's timing. Every visitor shows a driver's license, military ID or a state ID card, not a Social Security or welfare card, passes a metal detector and may be pat searched by an officer of the same sex, follows the dress code at the end of the policy, may bring up to ten dollars in change in a clear plastic bag for the vending machines, nothing to give or take except food brought to minimum security inmates at outside visits, and no medication but nitroglycerin, logged at the desk; smoking is prohibited, and lockers hold coats and boots.
Attorneys, phone calls and depositions
Attorneys of record and their agents, law students, paralegals, investigators, public defender social workers and interpreters, enter under regulation 240-RICR-20-00-3, effective July 8, 2025: an attorney shows a bar card or judiciary ID with photo identification, an agent works under an attorney's supervision with a letter on firm stationery to the warden at least three days before a first visit, must not be related to or on the visiting list of the client, not a former inmate, and passes BCI and NCIC checks, with attorneys refiling their agent lists with the Intake Service Center warden every 90 days; everyone passes the metal detector and the dress code applies.
An attorney who wants a cell phone number treated as privileged on a client's phone list files the department's attorney cell phone request form. To depose someone held at the ACI, counsel files a motion under Rule 30(a)(2), sends the order or stipulation to the Office of Legal Counsel by fax at 401-462-2583 or email, follows up at 401-462-5168, and arranges the date with the facility's deputy warden, giving the names and birth dates of every non attorney attending for a background check; meal times, recreation and visiting hours are hard to schedule around.
Reading a Rhode Island result
A result means custody at one of the six Cranston facilities, pretrial or sentenced, since the department holds both; the facility name tells which post office box takes mail and which warden's schedule governs visits. Money moves only from people on the visiting list once the 30 day grace period ends, nobody at the department confirms a case by phone, and the visitor's own record, immediate family or not, decides whether a visit is possible at all.
Questions about finding an inmate in Rhode Island
Related Rhode Island records
The search is one of the Rhode Island records this site covers: the Rhode Island arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers the judiciary's public portal, the sex offender registry guide covers the Parole Board registry, and the Rhode Island county pages list each police department.