# Jail411

> Jail411 is a public-interest reference site covering U.S. jails, prisons, and detention facilities. The site provides inmate search guidance, facility directories, criminal justice news, and practical guides for families of incarcerated people.

## What This Site Covers

Jail411 covers three main areas:

1. **Facility Directory** — 6,700+ county jails, state prisons, federal facilities, and ICE detention centers across all 50 states and D.C. Each facility page includes address, phone numbers, visitation rules, inmate search links, and booking information where available.

2. **Guides for Families** — Practical, plain-language guides for people with a loved one in jail or prison: how to find someone, how to call, how to visit, how to send money, how bail bonds work, how to write an inmate.

3. **Criminal Justice News** — Original reporting on incarceration trends, prison conditions, ICE detention, staffing crises, sentencing reform, and related policy developments across the United States.

## Key Pages

- Homepage: https://www.jail411.com/
- Facility Directory (all states): https://www.jail411.com/directory/
- Find Someone in Jail: https://www.jail411.com/find-someone-in-jail/
- How to Call Someone in Jail: https://www.jail411.com/how-to-call-someone-in-jail/
- How to Visit Someone in Jail: https://www.jail411.com/visit-someone-in-jail/
- How Bail Bonds Work: https://www.jail411.com/how-bail-bonds-work/
- How to Write an Inmate: https://www.jail411.com/how-to-write-an-inmate/
- How to Put Money on an Inmate's Books: https://www.jail411.com/how-to-put-money-on-an-inmates-books/
- Jail vs. Prison (explainer): https://www.jail411.com/jail-vs-prison/
- Prison Book Guide: https://www.jail411.com/prison-book-guide/
- Latest News: https://www.jail411.com/latest/
- Los Angeles County Jail guide: https://www.jail411.com/los-angeles-county-jail/
- Los Angeles Impound Guide: https://www.jail411.com/los-angeles-impound-guide/

## Directory Structure

State-level pages follow the pattern: https://www.jail411.com/directory/{state}/
Facility pages follow the pattern: https://www.jail411.com/directory/{state}/{facility-slug}/

All 50 states and D.C. are covered. Directory contains approximately 6,700 facilities.

## Full Content Index

For a complete machine-readable list of all pages and content summaries, see:
https://www.jail411.com/llms-full.txt