MDC Brooklyn Inmate Search and Prison Information

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MDC Brooklyn is short for Brooklyn Federal Correctional Institution. The MDC Brooklyn is known as a medium-security facility in Brooklyn, New York.
The facility has a main campus that is home to over 1730 inmates along with a satellite prison camp that is home to over 380 inmates.
MDC Brooklyn — General Information
Capacity 1730 persons.
80 29TH STREET BROOKLYN, NY, 11232
https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/bro/
718-840-4200
How to Find Someone in MDC Brooklyn
The MDC Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn can receive mail. Mail time in the MDC Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn. You will also need your ID card.
Visiting Hours
Directions
Refer the map below to find the driving directions.
Nearby Jail/Prison
- NYC DOC – Brooklyn Detention Complex (BKDC)
- Kings County Jail
- Brooklyn Residential Center
- Kings County Hospital Prison Ward
- SEEDS – Non-Secure Detention
- New York City Jail
- New York County Sheriff’s Jail
- New York Metropolitan Correctional Center
- NYC DOC – Manhattan Detention Complex (MDC)
- Ella McQueen Reception Center for Boys and Girls
- Ella McQueen Residential Center
- Crossroads Juvenile Center
- Lincoln Correctional Facility
- Jersey City City Jail
- Hoboken Jail
- NYC DOC – Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward (BHPW)
- Richmond County Jail
- Bayonne Jail
- Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility
- Nassau County Juvenile Detention Center
- Queens County Jail
- Queensboro Correctional Facility
- Hudson County Correctional Facility
- Goldwater Memorial Hospital Unit
- Essex County Correctional Facility
- York County Jail
Other Types of Correctional Facilities in New York
- City Jail 337
- County Jail 81
- State Prison 110