Inmate Lookup for Orleans Correctional Facility

The Tool, and What It Costs

Nothing. The lookup is at nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov, the state runs it, and anyone can use it. No sign-up, no fee, no cap on searches.

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

Searching by Name

With a DIN in hand, enter that. Exact, and fastest.

Without one, the search takes a last name and first name:

• Use the legal name before any nickname.
• Try a maiden name if one might be on record.
• Check the spelling letter by letter, because the tool matches what you type exactly.

A result gives you the facility, the DIN and custody details. It does not give a housing unit, and no New York result does.

Orleans Is a County, a Prison and a Louisiana Parish

Three things share the name, and only one of them is this prison.

• Orleans Correctional Facility is the New York state prison at Albion.
• Orleans County is the New York county it sits in, which also runs its own jail.
• Orleans Parish is in Louisiana, and a search that drops New York can land on the New Orleans sheriff instead.

Search the full name with New York attached and the question settles in one go.

Two Prisons in the Village of Albion

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

Same village, same postal town, same first five ZIP digits, about two miles apart. Neither publishes a post box, so once you have the facility name the street and the last four ZIP digits are what keep an envelope straight.

Read the facility line on the result, not the town.

The Number Does Double Duty Here

The lookup returns a Department Identification Number, and at Orleans it earns its keep twice over.

Where you need it	What it does
The envelope	Mail is not matched to a person without it
The JPay deposit slip	Deposits are matched to the DIN, not a name
The visiting desk	Staff work from the number
Working out your visiting dates	The last digit sets which dates of the month are yours

That last row is specific to this prison and it is set out in full on the visiting guide. Write the number down carefully, because at Orleans a misremembered final digit does more than delay a letter, it puts you at the gate on the wrong day.

County Jails Are a Separate System

The DOCCS lookup covers state prisons only.

Someone awaiting trial, serving under a year, or recently arrested is usually in a county jail, and every county runs its own roster, Orleans County included. 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 Orleans now.

Nothing Came Back

In this order.

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

Check It Before the Coach

Orleans is on the free visitor bus route, which means seats get booked days ahead.

Re-run the lookup close to the date. A transfer changes the destination, and at Orleans it also changes the DIN’s relevance to the calendar, so a stale result can cost a seat and a day.

Once You Have the Number

With the DIN written down, everything else opens up. Pigeonly takes the name and the facility and sends letters and photos from your phone, addressed to Gaines Basin Road with the right ZIP+4, so the two prisons sharing this village do not end up sharing your envelope.