Inmate Lookup for Albion Correctional Facility for Women

The Tool, and What It Costs

Nothing at all. The lookup lives at nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov, the state runs it, and anyone can use it. No account, no fee, no cap on searches.

It returns people held in New York state prisons, and Albion is one, so the free inmate lookup for Albion is this search with a name in it.

Searching by Name

With a DIN, enter that. Exact and fastest.

Without one, the search takes a last name and first name, and three things decide whether it comes back:

• The legal name beats a nickname.
• A maiden name is worth trying, and at a women’s prison it is worth trying first if a marriage has happened either side of the sentence.
• The spelling has to be right, because the tool matches what you type exactly.

Albion Names Two Prisons

Here is the problem unique to this village.

	Albion	Orleans
Holds	Women	Men
Address	3595 State School Road	3531 Gaines Basin Road
ZIP	14411-9399	14411-9199
Security	Medium	Medium
Phone	585-589-5511	585-589-6820

Same village, same postal town, same first five ZIP digits, about two miles apart. The facility name on your result is the thing to read, and after that the last four ZIP digits are what keep an envelope straight.

One of Three Prisons for Women

New York runs three state prisons exclusively for women: Albion, Bedford Hills and Taconic. Two further state facilities house both men and women.

Albion is the medium security one, in Orleans County in the far west of the state. Bedford Hills is maximum security and sits in Westchester, near New York City. If you are unsure which a woman has been sent to, the lookup settles it in one search, and the two are at opposite ends of the state, which makes the answer worth having before anyone books travel.

The DIN Is the Rest of It

The lookup returns a Department Identification Number, and everything after this point runs on it.

Where you need it	What happens without it
The envelope	Mail is not matched to a person
The JPay deposit slip	Deposits are matched to the DIN, not a name
Any call to the prison	It is the first thing you will be asked

Write it down once, properly.

County Jails Are Searched Elsewhere

The DOCCS lookup covers state prisons only.

A woman awaiting trial, serving under a year, or recently arrested is usually in a county jail, and each county runs its own roster. A blank result often means the county is the right place to look, not that the search failed.

It runs the other way too. People move into state prison after sentencing, so a name that was in a county jail last month may be at Albion now.

Nothing Came Back

In this order.

1. Spelling, then variants, then a maiden name.
2. Not yet in state custody. Sentencing first, then transfer.
3. Transferred. New York moves people between prisons and the lookup follows, so search again instead of assuming the last facility still holds.
4. County or federal custody. Separate systems, separate tools.

Look Again Before Each Letter

A transfer changes where she is held, and the lookup follows her. Because the post takes days to reach Albion, re-run the lookup before posting a letter or sending a deposit, so neither goes to a prison she has left.

After the Number

With her DIN in hand, Pigeonly sends letters and photos from your phone to 3595 State School Road with Albion’s ZIP+4, 14411-9399, not the 14411-9199 that belongs to Orleans.