Find MCC San Diego Inmates

MCC San Diego Overview

Metropolitan Correctional Center San Diego is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The official address is 808 Union Street, San Diego, CA 92101. The research identifies it as a federal administrative security Metropolitan Correctional Center with mixed male and female offenders. It is not a San Diego County Sheriff's jail, and it is not a California state prison. Its public locator is the BOP Inmate Locator.

Downtown San Diego has both county and federal custody infrastructure, so the difference matters. A person arrested on a local or state charge may appear in the Sheriff's Who's In Jail roster. A person in federal BOP custody should be searched through BOP. Some federal defendants may be in U.S. Marshals contract placement before BOP designation; that local contract detail was not verified in the research, so BOP should not be described as every possible federal pretrial placement.

MCC San Diego Population

BOP public JSON for MCC San Diego showed a population of 606 and a modified date of May 28, 2026. The same data source supplied the phone, fax, and email captured in the research. This is a facility-specific population figure, unlike the San Diego County jail-system averages from Sheriff reports and the BSCC rated-capacity data for local jails.

MCC San Diego BOP Lookup

Use the BOP Inmate Locator for Metropolitan Correctional Center San Diego. BOP says the locator covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present and is updated daily. It can be searched by name or by number. A BOP result may show name, register number, age, race, sex, release date, and location. It does not publish federal mugshots through the locator.

1. Open the BOP Inmate Locator and choose name search or number search.
2. For name search, enter first name, middle name if known, last name, and optional race, sex, or age.
3. For number search, use a BOP Register Number, DCDC Number, FBI Number, or INS Number.
4. Review the location and release-date fields, then contact MCC San Diego if the person is listed there.

The successful manifest image below directly matches the federal lookup channel. The BOP inmate locator is the correct system for MCC San Diego, while county jail records remain separate.

For federal records beyond the locator fields, the research identifies BOP FOIA as the fallback route, while court records must be checked through the federal court system rather than the San Diego Superior Court state case index.

MCC San Diego Search Fields

BOP search fields differ from the Sheriff's roster. The county roster uses first and last name fields and a Turnstile verification step. BOP also lets users search by federal identifiers, which can be the fastest route when a register number is known.

When a BOP number is not known, search by name first and compare age, race, sex, release date, and location. A common name can produce more than one result. If the record shows a location other than MCC San Diego, contact should follow that listed facility instead. If no BOP match appears and the person was arrested in San Diego County on local charges, switch back to the Sheriff roster and court records rather than repeating the same federal search.

MCC San Diego Contact

Use the BOP facility contact after the locator confirms MCC San Diego as the current location. Do not use the San Diego Sheriff custody line for BOP custody, and do not use CDCR CIRIS for federal inmates. The BOP public JSON captured a phone number, fax, and executive assistant email.

MCC San Diego Visits

The research did not capture a local MCC San Diego visiting schedule table. Federal visitation and family contact rules should be verified through the BOP facility page and direct facility contact before travel. County jail visit rules, SmartInmate video-visit limits, and the San Diego Sheriff's eVisit process are not MCC San Diego rules.

MCC San Diego Mail Money

Mail, phone, and money processes at MCC San Diego follow BOP federal rules, not the San Diego Sheriff mail-processing system. The research did not capture a BOP money-deposit fee table or MCC-specific mail format, so no fee amount should be invented. Use the BOP facility page and official BOP family resources for current address formatting, phone, and account rules.

The San Diego Sheriff Mail Processing Center in Santee applies to county jail mail. It should not be used for a BOP inmate at MCC San Diego. Likewise, Sheriff commissary categories and the Incarcerated Persons' Welfare Fund note apply to San Diego County jail commissary, not BOP federal custody.

MCC San Diego Records

The BOP locator is a custody locator, not a full court file or investigative record. It can help confirm a current or former federal inmate record from 1982 to the present, but it does not replace federal court records, BOP FOIA, or direct facility contact. The research also notes that federal mugshots are not published through the locator, so a missing photo is normal and should not be treated as an error in the lookup.

For a person who moved from county custody to a federal setting, separate the timeline. San Diego Sheriff records may explain a local booking event. Superior Court records cover state criminal cases. Federal custody at MCC San Diego requires BOP lookup, and a federal criminal case would be tracked outside the San Diego Superior Court state index. That distinction prevents a common mistake: using the county jail roster to find someone who is already in BOP custody.

MCC San Diego Caveats

MCC San Diego is a federal facility. That means the San Diego County Sheriff roster, CDCR CIRIS, and ICE ODLS can all be wrong starting points depending on the person's custody status. Use the Sheriff's roster for county jail custody, CIRIS for sentenced California prisoners, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention. Use BOP for BOP custody. When a case has both local and federal components, confirm the current custodian before relying on a record.