Nowadays, with the technological sophistication, doing inmate search becomes something easy to do. Using internet, people can search their family or friends who is incarcerated. To search inmate, people can try to search it via inmate search or inmate locator. To search someone who is incarcerated, you must visit the search portal based on the state. For example, if you want to search your beloved incarcerated one in North Carolina, it means you have to search the inmate in the NC DOC inmate search portal.
North Carolina Department of Correction (NCDOC) is an agency that runs the corrections in the United States, state of Carolina. But, in 2012, North Carolina Department of Correction incorporates with some departments and now it is under the auspices of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. North Carolina Department of Public Safety is an agency that has many of the state’s law enforcement, homeland security functions and emergency response. North Carolina Department of Correction and the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention were incorporated with Crime Control and Public Safety to make a new agency.
North Carolina Department of Corrections is located in 2020 Yonkers Road, 4226 MSC Raleigh, NC 27699-4226. In the North Carolina Department of Corrections (NC DOC) there are all the records of inmates and this department is also responsible for distributing them to law enforcement and to the public. Public can access the records of inmate which includes physical characteristics such as age, race, gender, photo and so on. Public also can see the inmate’s location of incarceration or probation. There is also the information of sentence which includes the dates of start and projected end, the status of inmate, type of crime, upcoming custody reviews, last movement information, and the history of conviction.
To search an inmate of North Carolina, you can go to NC DOC inmate search portal which is in www.ncdps.gov. In the website, there will be a link that is Offender Public Information Search/ Inmate Locator. Just click to the link and you will see a form for searching your inmate that consists of Offender Status, Last Name, First Name, M.I, Last Name Sounds Like, Offender Number, Gender, Race, Ethnic Group, Birth Date and Age Range. You can enter one or more search criteria to look for an inmate. For example, you just have a little information about the inmate like the inmate’s last name. You can enter that and the system will search it for you. Then, the system will only choose the inmates who match all of the search criteria that you specify. The searches are limited to no more than 10,000 inmates. So, It is better for you to enter more than one information so that the system will search it easily and you will find the inmate appropriately.
That is all the description about NC DOC inmate search portal. It is very easy to find your inmate, isn’t it? You can try to search your inmate at home via your laptop, computer or your smartphone.