Locate Carson City Correctional Facility Inmates

Carson City Prison Overview

Carson City Correctional Facility is operated by the Michigan Department of Corrections. It is a state prison in Montcalm County, not a county jail, and it holds male sentenced state prisoners age 18 and older. The MDOC page lists Levels I, II, and IV, and it identifies the facility's East and West sides as DRF-East and DRF-West. A person held here has moved beyond a local jail-only custody question and into the statewide corrections system.

The MDOC facility summary names Warden Jason Garcia, lists the prison phone as 989-584-3941, and gives the facility's public email for general and visiting-application contact. It also reports 428 employees and a summary prisoner capacity of 1,744. The general section on the same page describes capacity to house 2,526 adult prisoners across the East and West sides. That source also lists school, health care, food service, and indoor activity areas on both sides of the facility.

The official MDOC screenshot from the Carson City Correctional Facility page shows the state prison's contact, capacity, security levels, and program details.

That MDOC page is the facility-specific source for Carson City prison facts, while OTIS is the search tool for individual prisoner records.

Carson City Prison Capacity

Carson City Correctional Facility has a larger correctional footprint than the county jail because it is a state prison. MDOC's summary capacity number is 1,744 prisoners. Its facility description also says the complex can house 2,526 adult prisoners across DRF-West and DRF-East. A historical correctional-population table lists Carson City at 2,506 on June 30, 2012. Those figures should not be mixed with the Montcalm County Jail's bed count because the two facilities serve different custody systems.

Carson City OTIS Lookup

A Carson City Correctional Facility inmate lookup should start with MDOC OTIS or the OTIS offender search form. OTIS is the statewide Offender Tracking Information System for Michigan prisoners, parolees, probationers, and recent discharges. MDOC says OTIS does not contain county jail prisoners, city lockup prisoners, people sentenced to jail only, people arrested and convicted but not yet sentenced, information exempt from FOIA, or many older discharged records beyond the published period. That means a person at Carson City should be searched through OTIS, while a person still in Montcalm County Jail should be checked through the jail phone path.

1. Open the MDOC OTIS search form for Michigan offender records.
2. Search by last name, first name, offender number, sex, race, age, offender status, or marks and tattoos.
3. Open the matching profile and confirm the assigned location shows Carson City Correctional Facility.
4. Review status, security level, release dates, sentence fields, aliases, and listed marks or tattoos when shown.
5. If the person is not in OTIS, check whether the case is still in county jail custody, jail-only sentence status, federal custody, or an older discharge period.

Carson City Prison Contact

Use the MDOC facility contact for prison-level questions, not the Montcalm County Jail line. County staff cannot update OTIS or apply MDOC visiting rules. The facility address and phone are for Carson City Correctional Facility, while questions about a local arrest before sentencing may still involve the county jail, district court, circuit court, or prosecutor. Keeping those channels separate avoids confusing a county booking record with a state prison placement.

Carson City Prison Visits

Carson City Correctional Facility visitation follows MDOC rules. It does not use Montcalm County Jail IC Solutions scheduling. The MDOC video visitation page says approved visitors use the GTL visitor website to schedule video visits for the assigned facility. Visitor approval must be handled through the MDOC process, and the facility page gives the public email mdoc-carsoncity-public@michigan.gov for general and visiting-application contact. Scheduling, approval, visit type, and conduct rules should be confirmed with MDOC before travel or appointment requests.

Carson City Prison Mail

Mail, phone, and money for Carson City Correctional Facility are MDOC prison matters. The Montcalm County Jail money-order address, Express Account commissary limit, IC Solutions county video rules, and county jail care-package instructions do not apply to a state prisoner at Carson City. Use the prison address for facility mail routing and confirm current MDOC family resources before sending funds, packages, or correspondence. A sender should include the prisoner's full legal name and MDOC number when available because OTIS profiles use state offender identifiers.

For local pretrial custody, mail and money questions belong with Montcalm County Jail. For a sentenced prisoner assigned to Carson City, OTIS and MDOC rules control the record and service channels.

Carson City Prison Intake

Carson City Correctional Facility does not handle street-arrest booking for Montcalm County. A local criminal case starts with arrest, booking at the county jail, and court proceedings. If the court later imposes a state-prison sentence, the person enters MDOC custody and may be assigned to Carson City after reception, classification, and placement decisions. Classification is the prison review that helps determine security level, housing, program needs, and facility assignment.

OTIS may show prison status, assigned location, release date fields, sentence information, aliases, demographics, and marks or tattoos when those items are public. It will not show every local jail-only record or every older criminal-history record. The state locator is therefore a custody and corrections search, not a replacement for Montcalm County court records after a jail arrest.

MDOC

Michigan Department of Corrections, the state agency that runs prisons and supervises parole and probation records in OTIS.

OTIS

The statewide offender tracking system for Michigan corrections records.

Classification

A corrections review used to determine custody level, housing, and program placement.

Carson City Prison Programs

MDOC lists education, employment, and vocational programming at Carson City Correctional Facility. The facility page identifies Adult Basic Education, GED, Employment Readiness, and Food Service Hospitality Management. It also states that both DRF-West and DRF-East have food service, school, health care, and indoor activity areas. These details are prison-program facts for sentenced state prisoners and should not be merged with Montcalm County Jail work-release rules.

The research file notes a historical correctional population of 2,506 for Carson City on June 30, 2012, plus the current MDOC capacity figures described above. That prison population is part of Montcalm County's correctional footprint, but it is not the same as the county jail inmate population. When an inmate has moved from local custody into MDOC custody, Montcalm County jail inmate records may still help with the earlier arrest, but OTIS controls the current prison lookup.