Find St. Louis Correctional Facility Inmates

St. Louis Facility Overview

St. Louis Correctional Facility, also identified by MDOC as SLF, is a Level IV state prison in St. Louis. MDOC lists Warden John Christiansen, a public email for general questions and visiting applications, and a main telephone line. The prison opened in 1999 and holds males age 18 and older. Its custody group is sentenced state prisoners, not people newly booked into Gratiot County Jail.

MDOC says the facility sits on 67 acres in northeast St. Louis and includes administration, food services, education, maintenance, storage, and prisoner-housing buildings. The prison has six general-population housing units, one Adaptive Skills Residential Program unit, and one segregation unit that can hold up to 96 prisoners. Security features listed by MDOC include a buffer fence, double chain-link fences, razor-ribbon wire, electronic detection systems, an armed patrol vehicle, and gun towers.

The manifest image from the official St. Louis Correctional Facility page documents the MDOC source for this prison's custody type, contact details, housing, and services.

Use that state source for prison-level information, and use the sheriff source only for county jail custody.

St. Louis Facility Population

The current MDOC page did not publish one total capacity figure for St. Louis Correctional Facility in the research file. It did publish the housing layout and a segregation-unit capacity of up to 96 prisoners. Because no single facility total was found, a total population or total capacity should not be inferred. The sourced facts are that the prison includes six general-population units, one Adaptive Skills Residential Program unit, and one segregation unit.

That limited capacity data is still useful for lookup decisions. A person in St. Louis Correctional Facility is under MDOC jurisdiction and should appear, if public and within scope, through OTIS. A person in Gratiot County Jail before sentencing is not searched through the St. Louis prison contact path. For a local arrest that later becomes a state sentence, the record may move from the county jail roster to OTIS after MDOC intake and assignment.

St. Louis Inmate Search

St. Louis Correctional Facility prisoners are searched through MDOC OTIS. OTIS covers MDOC prisoners, parolees, probationers, interstate compact transfers, absconders, escapees, and people discharged within three years of supervision discharge. MDOC also lists key exclusions: county jail and city lockup prisoners, people arrested and convicted but not yet sentenced, jail-only sentences, some photographs, and people outside the three-year discharge window. If the person may still be in the sheriff jail after arrest, use the Gratiot County Jail roster and Jail Division instead.

1. Open OTIS and search by offender number when known, or by first and last name.
2. Narrow results with age, sex, race, offender status, or physical marks when common names return many profiles.
3. Open the matching profile and check whether the facility line shows St. Louis Correctional Facility.
4. Review sentence, conviction, photo, projected release, status, and supervision fields with MDOC's accuracy warning in mind.

St. Louis Facility Contact

Use the prison contact details for visiting applications and facility questions. St. Louis Correctional Facility is separate from the city police and the Gratiot County Sheriff's Office. If a person is listed at SLF in OTIS, questions about visiting approval, housing-unit visit times, prison mail, and MDOC money rules should go to the MDOC prison channel.

St. Louis Prison Visits

MDOC requires visitor approval before a St. Louis Correctional Facility visit can be scheduled. A visitor must qualify, be added to the prisoner's visiting list, submit the application through MiLogin or by mail, and wait for processing that may take up to four weeks. Approved visitors schedule in-person or video visits through the Michigan DOC ViaPath/GTL scheduling system. MDOC requires scheduling at least 48 hours in advance and not more than seven days in advance.

The official St. Louis in-person visiting schedule was updated 04/07/25 and is organized by housing unit.

Housing unit matters because unit 7 has a different schedule from the general-population units.

St. Louis Mail and Money

St. Louis Correctional Facility follows MDOC's statewide prisoner money and package rules. Money uses GTL Financial Services and ConnectNetwork. The research lists a $300 cap per deposit. Package orders use Friends and Family or SecurePak, one order per quarter, with a $125 limit before tax and shipping. Segregation prisoners are not eligible for those packages. Video visits cost $0.16 per minute and may place a $3.20 hold for the full 20-minute block.

The research source did not provide a separate prisoner mail-format table for St. Louis Correctional Facility. Confirm mail rules with MDOC before sending property, packages, legal mail, or items affected by housing status. The source inventory identifies ConnectNetwork's Michigan DOC facility entry for phone, trust fund, visitation scheduling, and video visitation services.

St. Louis Prison Intake

St. Louis Correctional Facility is not the booking desk for Gratiot County arrests. State prison intake follows sentencing and MDOC classification. Classification reviews security level, custody needs, medical and mental-health needs, housing, and program placement. A person may be booked at the county jail, appear in court, and later move into MDOC custody if sentenced to prison. After that transfer, the public search path shifts from JailTracker to OTIS.

A hold, warrant, or pending county case can still matter before transfer, but the prison page should not be used to resolve active county bond questions. For current county jail booking, use the Jail Division and JailTracker. For a sentenced MDOC prisoner assigned to SLF, use OTIS and the prison contact information.

St. Louis Facility Programs

MDOC lists several programs and services at St. Louis Correctional Facility. The research identifies pre-release preparation, psychological counseling, Thinking for Change, Violence Prevention Program, substance-abuse treatment, Adult Basic Education, GED, Special Education, general library, law library, hobbycraft, religious services, recreation, and barbershop. Health services include routine on-site medical care, x-ray, dental care, telemedicine, a mini-clinic in each housing unit, Duane L. Waters Health Care referrals, and emergency local hospital referrals.

The Adaptive Skills Residential Program unit is a key feature in the facility detail. The prison also has segregation space, which affects visits and package eligibility in the MDOC rules. Because housing status can change, families should confirm the prisoner's current housing unit before scheduling a visit or ordering a package.