Federal inmate
transfer alerts.
We check the Bureau of Prisons inmate locator every half hour, every day and text you the moment your loved one is transferred. Free.
Transfer alert: Marcus S. has been moved from FCI Cumberland…
Transfer alert: Marcus S. has been moved from FCI Cumberland to FCI Elkton. Reply STOP to unsubscribe.
You get a text. No app, no login, no checking bop.gov yourself.
The BOP doesn't call.
You have to find out on your own.
Federal inmates can be transferred to a new facility with no notice to family. No phone call. No letter. No text.
You find out when a letter comes back unopened. Or when you arrive at a facility and they tell you he's not here anymore. Or not at all.
We built Right To Notify because that shouldn't happen to you.
Three steps.
No account.
That's all we need to start. We'll send you a text right away — no forms to fill out here, no account to create.
The entire experience runs through SMS. We'll text you to get the inmate's BOP register number — no forms, no app. From there you can text to check their current location, see the facilities they've been at, and cancel anytime.
Every 30 minutes, our system queries the official Bureau of Prisons inmate locator for every person we're watching. If the facility has changed, we text you immediately.
Built directly on
the Bureau of Prisons.
We search the exact same federal system that BOP maintains — the same data the government makes available — and we monitor it for you automatically.
The BOP's own public inmate locator at bop.gov is the authoritative source for federal inmate locations. We don't have a proprietary database. We don't scrape a secondary source. We don't make guesses.
We'll notify you
when we're down.
Our system is down at the moment. We're working on resolving issues. https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/.