Are you hoping to perform a county jail inmate search? Maybe you have a concern that someone in your street has been in jail? It is possible to search through a state department of corrections website as some of them allow a free inmate search. Many of these websites have databases which contain court records on inmates who are currently housed in one of the Department of Corrections facilities and also inmates who have been released from jail in the past 15 days. Not all counties have this website facility, however, so if you are desiring to make a county jail inmate search for free you should use a search engine for your specific department of corrections.

There are only three ways that you can search through the Department of Corrections inmate database. The first is by entering an inmate's identification number. You just input the inmate's Department of Corrections ID or Case Number. Each inmate is given a individual number for identification. There is also a Case Number which refers to a sentencing file specific to their particular case. An inmate can only have one State Department of Corrections ID but can have quite a few case numbers. If you know this information it can provide you with an accurate search result.

You can also perform a County Jail Inmate Search by typing the inmate's name on the website. You can either enter an inmate's complete first, middle and last name or just put part of the names. The inmate search database system will give you a list of inmates whose names start with the letters you have entered. For example, if you enter Chr,Bart you may get Chris Barton, Christian Bartoni, Christina Bartez. This is helpful when you aren't sure about the full name you are searching for, but obviously can provide you with a long list of possible matches on the website. Performing a County Jail Inmate Search with specific data is better than rough guesses, so if you can do your research before trying to access the website you will be more successful.

The last way to do a county jail inmate search is by ?Alias?. This is quite common with habitual criminals, who try and avoid capture or recognition by using an assumed name. In order to get the search to work you have to format the alias of the inmate with the last name first, a comma, and then the first name. There should be no spaces before and after the comma. You need to enter the first two letters of an inmate's last name if you want to search through the ?Alias? option. For example: Brown,Ch or Johnson,Do .

As I mentioned earlier, not all state or counties have the county jail inmate search facility. If you are interested on getting more information about a particular inmate, you could try other websites that can give you more information and records on inmates for a small charge, usually around $35 for a year's access. An example of this is http://www.governmentpublicrecords.net/govregistry . The advantage of using a site like this is that you have access to all kinds of other public records as well as an inmate search. You can search the sex offenders registry, as well as all common public records like birth records, death records, marriage and divorce records, telephone and property searches and much, much besides. If you have a number of searches you would like to make, and are interested in a wider search than just a county jail inmate search then I would highly recommend having a peek at what they have to offer.