The Untold Stories Of The NYS Inmate Lookup System

This lookup is intended to provide interested parties with information on the status and location of individuals incarcerated in a new york state department of corrections and community supervision (doccs) facility. This lookup is intended to provide interested parties with information on the status and location of individuals incarcerated in a new york state department of corrections and community supervision (doccs) facility. Thename indexincludes individual names appearing in the records of various state agencies whose records are held by the new york state archives. The following record series are represented in the name index: You can lookup a prisoner currently/recently incarcerated in the ny state doccs system here.

Lord explains in this article what the legal difficulties are for finding that information. The new york state archives holds records relating to thousands of past inmates of new york state prisons. These records take the form of admission and discharge registers, summary cards, and inmate case files. New yorks prison system has been under intense scrutiny in recent months. Corrections officers at a prison near utica were charged with murdering an inmate in december. These sprawling facilities serve as the backdrop to the often untold stories of individuals who have found themselves entangled in the complex web of the criminal justice system.