Do I Need a Housing Unit Number to Send Mail to an Inmate?

Housing assignments are not posted online for any California state facility. The only way to get that information is to call McFarland directly. When you do, they may tell you that the specific bed assignment is not something they share with outside callers, and that is actually fine for mailing purposes.

To send mail to your wife, you do not need her housing unit or bed number. You only need her full legal name, her CDCR number, and the facility's mailing address. The mailroom routes mail to the correct housing unit internally once it arrives. A letter addressed with her name and ID number to the facility will reach her without any additional location detail from you.

If you do not yet have her CDCR number following the transfer, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has an inmate locator at cdcr.ca.gov where you can search by name and retrieve her number and current location.