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Oregon State Correctional Overview

Oregon State Correctional Institution, or OSCI, is a medium-security state prison operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections. The Oregon Blue Book lists the facility at 3405 Deer Park Dr. SE in Salem, with operations beginning in 1959 and capacity for 890 adults in custody. It is one of several state correctional facilities physically located in Marion County, but its function is not local jail booking. OSCI houses sentenced ODOC adults in custody after the court process and state correctional assignment.

That distinction is the main rule for searching. Marion County Jail is where a new Marion County arrestee may first appear. The jail can also hold people sentenced to state correctional facilities while they wait for transport. Once ODOC accepts and places the person at Oregon State Correctional Institution, the public lookup shifts to the statewide prison locator. County jail bond fields, jail housing fields, and booking-date searches no longer answer prison location or visiting questions.

OSCI Capacity and Role

OSCI's sourced capacity is 890, from the Oregon Blue Book DOC subdivisions source inspected for the Marion County research file. The same source lists Superintendent Josh Highberger, medium-security level, and operational history since 1959. The facility's capacity belongs to ODOC, not the Marion County Sheriff's Office. It should not be added to the county jail capacity when explaining local jail crowding, because state prison beds and county jail beds serve different legal stages.

The research did not locate a current public daily count for Oregon State Correctional Institution. For that reason, this page uses the documented capacity and avoids a guessed population. A specific person's current state-prison location should be verified through Oregon Offender Search. Certified or official offender records require ODOC public-records procedures rather than a simple locator screenshot.

Search OSCI Inmate Records

Use Oregon Offender Search for Oregon State Correctional Institution records. The ODOC locator accepts first name, middle name, last name, and SID or State ID. The research notes that partial name searches can use an asterisk for unknown portions. That is useful when a court record, jail roster entry, or family contact has an incomplete spelling. The locator is for sentenced state prison custody, not county jail pretrial custody.

If a person was just arrested in Marion County, start with the Marion County Jail Viewer or RPS roster instead. A sentenced transfer may appear in Marion County Jail records before transport, but after the facility changes to OSCI, Oregon Offender Search controls. VISOR is a separate notification system and can send release, transfer, escape, or death notices by phone, email, or text.

For county custody, check the Marion County Sheriff's Office jail overview, the Marion County Web Jail Viewer, and the RPS current-inmate roster. Sheriff Nick Hunter's office runs those local jail channels. ODOC runs OSCI and the statewide prison locator.

1. Open Oregon Offender Search and enter the name or SID.
2. Use the asterisk wildcard when part of the name is uncertain.
3. Check the result for Oregon State Correctional Institution as the listed facility.
4. Use ODOC visiting and mail rules after confirming the OSCI assignment.

The Oregon Offender Search page shows the correct statewide prison lookup.

Because ODOC search covers all Oregon prisons, confirm OSCI rather than relying on the first similar name result.

Oregon State Correctional Contact

OSCI contact information is for prison-level questions after ODOC custody is confirmed. It should not be used to ask whether a person was booked into Marion County Jail today. Use the jail roster and jail phone line for new arrests, and use OSCI or ODOC when the person is already a sentenced adult in state custody.

OSCI Visiting Schedule

ODOC requires an approved visiting application before ordinary visits. Applications may be submitted online, faxed to 503-373-1173, or mailed to the Visiting Services Unit in Salem. The ODOC visiting-hours page lists Oregon State Correctional Institution visiting on Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday. OSCI also has DSU or basic visits that must be requested at least 72 hours ahead using ODOC and ICSolutions linked forms.

Do not use Marion County Jail visiting rules for OSCI. The jail has non-contact and video visiting tied to housing groups and last-name days. OSCI is a state prison, so ODOC approval, prison visiting hours, and any special housing rules control. When the person is in disciplinary or basic status, confirm the request process before travel.

ODOC publishes OSCI visiting hours with the other Salem-area prison schedules.

Use the ODOC schedule and approval rules rather than the sheriff's jail visiting desk for OSCI visits.

OSCI Mail and Money

Mail, phones, and money at Oregon State Correctional Institution follow ODOC prison channels. The research file did not include an OSCI-specific deposit-fee schedule, so no dollar fee is listed. Before sending money or mail, use ODOC's current facility instructions and include the adult in custody's identifying information. The Marion County jail's Access Securepak and local video-visit rules should not be borrowed for a state prison page.

Oregon Offender Search confirms location; it does not send money, approve visits, or provide certified records. For official records, use ODOC public-records procedures. For custody notifications, use VISOR. For court case details after a Marion County conviction, use Oregon Judicial Department court records rather than OSCI's main phone line.

OSCI Prison Intake

OSCI intake follows conviction, sentencing, ODOC custody, and placement. It is not where police bring a person immediately after an arrest. Marion County Jail may hold a sentenced person pending state transfer, which is why a county roster result can precede an ODOC result. Once the transfer is complete, the prison locator and ODOC rules take over.

Medium-security status means OSCI operates under state prison classification and security rules. It is distinct from Oregon State Penitentiary's multi-security role and Santiam's minimum-security role. Families should not assume that all three Salem prisons share the same visiting details, even though they are all ODOC facilities in Marion County.

Medium security

A prison custody level with structured housing and movement controls under ODOC rules.

State prison

A sentenced custody facility, different from a county jail used for booking and pretrial detention.

Public records request

The formal route for official or certified ODOC offender records.

About Oregon State Correctional

OSCI is part of the Salem and Marion County corrections cluster. People searching by geography alone may confuse it with the county jail, the Transition Center, Oregon State Penitentiary, or Santiam Correctional Institution. The practical rule is to identify the custody stage first. New arrest means county jail search. Sentenced ODOC custody means Oregon Offender Search.

Oregon booking-photo limits and jail roster mugshot rules do not create an OSCI mugshot gallery. ODOC search is a prison locator and public-information tool, not a commercial booking-photo site. Use verified state and county channels and avoid treating third-party snippets as official custody proof.