El Reno Federal Prison Inmate Search and Prison Information

FCI El Reno is commonly known as the Federal Correctional Institution, El Reno. The prison is in Oklahoma. It is a medium-security federal facility that houses male inmates. It is operated and managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. 

Adjacent to the main campus there is a satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security male inmates. 

FCI El Reno is one of the two last standing farm prisons that is under the Federal Bureau of Prisons. 

FCI El Reno is situated in the central portion of Oklahoma. It is about 30 miles west of Oklahoma City.

The facility opened on April 4, 1933. When it originally opened, it was called the United States Southwestern Reformatory or U.S.S.R. for short.  It first was receiving inmates from USP Leavenworth, Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, and Federal Prison Camp at Fort Riley. 

It was not until 1938, where the facility changed their name to Federal Reformatory, El Reno. From then it evolved into what is now known as the Federal Correctional Institution or FCI for short, where it holds adults aging from 18 to 26, who was assigned a medium-security prison.

In the late 1970s, FCI El Reno started to house all age medium-security adults. 

The facility situated on 2,600 acres of land. 56 acres of the land is surrounded by a fence. 

How to Find Someone in El Reno Federal Prison

FCI El Reno is a federal prison. The easiest way to lookup an inmate in federal prisons is going to the BOP website.

They have a database where you can search all federal inmates.

Sending a Mail/Care Package

Inmates can receive mail (cards, letters, etc). You can send mail to the following address.

Inmate Name, ID Number
El Reno Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 1500
El Reno, Oklahoma 73036

Inmates can get mailed books, magazines, newspapers; however, they need to be mailed and sent from the publisher. You cannot box up these items and send it from your home.

Inmates are NOT allowed to get care packages without prior approval from their inmate unit team.

Sending Money

You can put money into your inmate's commissary account by Western Union or MoneyGram. Each option you can do online or in person.

You will need to the following information

• Inmate Name
• Register Number (inmate number)
• City (always will be FBOP)
• State (always will be DC)

If you can’t get down to either Western Union or MoneyGram, you can send money directly to their PO box. That information is:

INMATE NAME & REGISTER NUMBER
P.O. Box 474702
Des Moines, Iowa 50947

Do NOT send money to an inmate using the FCI El Reno address. All funds sent through the mail must be addressed to a processing center in Des Moines, Iowa. This applies to all Federal inmates, regardless of where they are incarcerated.

Email

The last way to stay in touch with an inmate at FCI El Reno is through email. Email is also through Trulincs.

The email program is funded by the inmate trust fund, which is kept up with purchases from the commissary, the telephone service, and fees paid directly to Trulincs.

Emails are monitored and screened for content not suitable for them.

Admissions and Orientation Handbook

Your first day in prison, you are bombarded with a ton of information. One booklet you will be giving is the Admissions and Orientation (A&O) Handbook. 

This handbook will supply you with general information about the prison itself alongside the prison’s rules, programs, and regulations you will have to follow while you are serving out your sentence. 

It will be in your best interest to familiarize yourself with handbook as it is your responsibility to transition smoothly to prison life. 

The handbook is in English and in Spanish. 

Commissary

The commissary was founded in 1930 by the Department of Justice. The Commissary was placed in all Federal Institutions. 

The commissary allows inmates to shop for “luxury” items while they are in prison. Funds are typically deposited by their friends, families, and their prison jobs. 

Inmates have a spending limit of $360 per month. The commissary is only open on a designated day of the week where they can utilize the shop. 

All federal prisons have their commissary list with prices available to the public. 

Legal Activities

Even when in prison, you may still need legal counsel. There are strict procedures one will have to follow to obtain legal reference materials alongside their legal counsel.

There are also many opportunities to be taken advantage of to afford the proposal of legal documents when behind bars.  

All procedures for legal activities can be located here.

Visitation

Inmates can have visitors on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, and federal holidays from 8am to 3pm. 

The FCI El Reno visitation room has a capacity of 133 people. The satellite prison camp has a capacity of 57 people. 

Inmates are not permitted to have more than 5 adult visitors at once. Inmates can also have up to 5 children too. 

Visits are on a point system. All inmates start each month with 32 points a month. Weekday visits cost one point per hour. Weekends and holidays are 2 visiting points per hour visit. Inmates are limited to 20 points per weekend and holiday visits. Inmates may ask the Warden for another 10 visiting points.

Inmates are allowed to request up to 10 additional visiting points from the Warden.

A visitor must be on the approved visiting list of the inmate they wish to visit.

Any visitor who is 16 years of age and older must provide proper identification prior to entering the visiting room.

Visitors are permitted to bring only a clear coin purse, which will be searched upon arrival.

Before you can visit, you will need to be on the inmates approved visitor list. Adults from the age of 16 and up must have the proper identification. Proper identification is a picture identification card. Under the age of 18 can use their student ID card, and adults over the age of 18 need to have a government-issued ID card.

How Often Can I Visit?

This will depend on what rank the inmate is. There are three ranks:

• LSCI – 12 points
• FCI – 5 points
• USP – 9 points

Here is the point schedule for visitations:

FCI

• Each visit is one point regardless of the day.

LSCI

• 2 points for weekend visits
• 2 points for federal holidays visits
• 1 point for weekday visits

USP

• 2 points for weekend visits
• 0 points for federal holiday visits
• 1 point for weekday visits.

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