Searching for an inmate is easy and simple if you know how to do it. There are databases that are freely available online to anyone, if you know where to find them.

This is a guide to sending funds and money to an inmate's commissary account.  It is a general guide and not specific to a particular institution.  Before we discuss how to send money to an inmate you must first learn why an inmate needs money when they are incarcerated.