General Information

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation oversees the incarceration of both adult and juvenile offenders, as well as providing parolee services to adult and juvenile offenders.

This page is intended to assist the general public in locating, contacting, visiting and corresponding with inmates and juveniles who are in a CDCR prison or juvenile facility.

Currently there are 33 adult prisons, 13 adult community correctional facilities, and eight juvenile facilities in California that house more than 165,000 adult offenders and nearly 3,200 juvenile offenders. In addition, there are more than 148,000 adult parolees and 3,800 juvenile parolees supervised by the CDCR.

Adult Offenders

If you are interested in finding out more about the locations of facilities to visit adult offenders, visit these links:

• List of Adult Facilities and Locations
• List of Out-of-State Facilities
• List of Community Correctional Facilities (CCF)

If you want to know the procedures for visiting adult visitors, visit these links:

(Please be advised that the visiting hours for each institution and camp is different. Please go to the Adult Facilities and Locations page, and visit the linked homepages for institutions, to see what the visiting hours are for each institution or camp. Typically, visiting hours are at the bottom of the page.)

• Guidelines for Visitors to Adult Prisons

Additional Resources for Visitors to Adult Prisons

• To contact a Prison Ombudsman


• To find an inmate (redirects to the CDCR Identification Unit)


• List of Approved Vendors for Inmate Packages


• Receiving Calls From Inmates and Wards

Juvenile Offenders

If you are interested in finding out more about visitation and juvenile offenders, visit this link:

• Guidelines for Visitors to Division of Juvenile Justice Facilities

For a map of Adult and Juvenile CDCR Institutions in California, click here  to download your personal copy.