text: are there ways to search jail records?-need to find a person who might be in jail but i don't know what state are there ways to search databases online that list inmates names? this link will help you find inmates in a federal facility http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/locateinmate.jsp ... if he's in a state prison, do a search that looks like this, except without the quotation marks.... "yourstate corrections prison inmate search" or "countyname jail inmate information" that will get you links to the inmate lookup services. if that doesn't help, go to the forum marked "lost in the system" at http://www.prisontalk.com good luck