MDC Los Angeles Inmate Search and Prison Information

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MDC Los Angeles is short for Los Angeles Federal Correctional Institution. The MDC Los Angeles is known as a medium-security facility in Los Angeles, California.
The facility has a main campus that is home to over 769 inmates along with a satellite prison camp that is home to over 380 inmates.
MDC Los Angeles — General Information
Capacity 769 persons.
535 N ALAMEDA STREET LOS ANGELES, CA, 90012
https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/los/
213-485-0439
How to Find Someone in MDC Los Angeles
The MDC Los Angeles has its database within the Federal Bureau of Prisons database. You can search through the inmates and find all of the information you will need here.
Sending a Mail/Care Package
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Inmates in the MDC Los Angeles can receive mail. Mail time in the MDC Los Angeles is the best time of the week for these inmates.
They get to receive their letters, photos, and even packages.
You will be allowed to send off the following:
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Letters
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New Paperback Books
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Magazines
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Newspapers
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Photographs
If you want to send books, newspapers, and magazines, you will need to have them shipped to the MDC Los Angeles from the publisher and/or bookstore.
Keep in mind that all books are required to be new and paperback as well.
Sending Money
The MDC Los Angeles has given inmate three methods of how they can fund an inmate's account.
First and foremost, the fastest way to put money on an inmate’s books is to use either MoneyGram or Western Union. To use either of these services, you should note that it will have a fee.
The other way you can put money on an inmate’s books is to send a money order. The money order will need to have the inmate’s name and their BOP number.
Phone calls
Inmates in the MDC Los Angeles will have the ability to use the telephones that are in the common areas throughout the day.
These phones will be in use if the MDC Los Angeles is not under any sort of lockdown.
Inmates will have to have money in their phone account to use these telephones. Inmates will only be permitted to talk on the phone for 300 minutes each month as well.
Visitation
The MDC Los Angeles and the satellite prison camp has the same visitation hours. The visitation schedule is as follows:
You will need to have completed your visitor application and have it approved prior to being allowed to visit in the MDC Los Angeles. You will also need your ID card.
Visiting Hours
Directions
Refer the map below to find the driving directions.
Nearby Jail/Prison
- LAPD – Metropolitan Los Angeles Jail
- Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail
- Los Angeles County Inmate Reception Center
- LA County Twin Towers Jail
- Los Angeles County Sheriff Jail
- LA County Central Juvenile Hall
- Vernon Jail
- Huntington Park City Jail
- Maywood City Jail
- Bell Jail
- Los Angeles City Jail
- LAPD – 77th Street Los Angeles Regional Jail
- Monterey Park Jail
- South Pasadena City Jail
- Alhambra Jail
- South Gate Jail
- Bell Gardens City Jail
- San Gabriel Jail
- Pasadena Jail
- West Hollywood City Jail
- LA County Century Regional Detention Center
- San Marino City Jail
- Lynwood City Jail
- Culver Jail
- Beverly Hills City Jail
- LA County Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall
- Pico Rivera City Jail
- Temple City Jail
- Hawthorne Jail
- Santa Fe Springs City Jail
Other Types of Correctional Facilities in California
- City Jail 405
- County Jail 279
- State Prison 97