How to Find Information About Your Incarcerated Loved One

There are two different things you might be looking for here and both are findable.

If you want to know what someone did to get incarcerated, an arrest record search will show you charges, conviction history, and sentencing information. This is public record and available through InmateAid's arrest record search tool.

If you want to know what they are up to inside the facility, that is harder to get officially. The facility itself will not share behavioral reports or daily activity with outside visitors. Your best source of information is the inmate themselves through calls, letters, or visits.

However, if you have specific concerns about their behavior or safety inside, you can contact the facility's case manager directly. Every federal and state inmate is assigned a case manager who handles communications between the inmate and their family. They will not share everything but they will address legitimate concerns.

If your loved one has had disciplinary incidents, those records are sometimes accessible through a Freedom of Information Act request to the facility, though the process can be slow.