Federal Correctional Institution Loretto Inmates
Federal Correctional Institution Loretto is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. BOP identifies the institution as a low-security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp. It is physically located in Cambria County, but it is not a Cambria County Prison unit and it does not hold the ordinary county pretrial jail population. Its population is sentenced federal male inmates.
That federal status controls every search and family-contact task. A person sentenced in federal court may be located through BOP even if the facility sits inside Cambria County. A person arrested on a local Cambria County charge should be checked through Cambria County Prison, VINE, and UJS while the case is local. The same county can therefore have two very different custody systems: county jail custody for local defendants and BOP custody for sentenced federal inmates.
The BOP institution source is shown below. The FCI Loretto facility page is the source for the official institution profile, contact details, visiting regulations PDF, admissions and orientation handbook, commissary list, and PREA materials.
The BOP page also links the local PDFs that matter for visitors and families, so federal rules should be checked there instead of using county jail practices.
FCI Loretto Population
BOP publishes facility population data through its national population statistics tool. The research captured LORETTO FCI, PA with a population of 779 in the BOP table, and the BOP statistics page states that population statistics refresh weekly on Thursdays at 12:00 a.m. Rated design capacity was not located on the public institution page, so the page should not present a rated-capacity figure for Federal Correctional Institution Loretto.
Unlike the Cambria County Prison historical figures, the FCI Loretto figure comes from the current BOP population statistics source captured in the research. It is still a snapshot because the BOP table refreshes weekly. Use the live BOP statistics page for the newest number, especially before relying on it for reporting, travel, or legal planning.
The image below comes from the BOP population statistics page, the national source used for the FCI Loretto population figure.
Because BOP refreshes facility totals on its own schedule, the statistic should be treated as a BOP-published facility count, not a county jail count.
Federal Correctional Institution Loretto Locator
Lookup for Federal Correctional Institution Loretto runs through the BOP Inmate Locator. BOP says its locator covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present. The locator is not a county roster, and it is not a mugshot gallery. It is built to identify federal inmate records and location information by number or by name.
- Open the BOP Inmate Locator and choose Find By Number if a federal register number or other listed identifier is known.
- Use Find By Name when no number is known. Enter the last name, and add first name, middle name, race, sex, or age to narrow common results.
- Review the returned record for the federal inmate identity, location, and status. Confirm that the listed institution is Loretto when looking for FCI Loretto custody.
- Use the institution page for visit rules, mail rules, money warnings, and local PDFs after confirming the person is in BOP custody.
| BOP Search Field | Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Find By Number | Exact federal identifier search | Use BOP Register Number, DCDC Number, FBI Number, or INS Number when known |
| First / Middle / Last Name | By-name search | Last name is the core field for most name searches |
| Race | Optional narrowing field | Options captured include American Indian, Asian, Black, and White |
| Sex | Optional narrowing field | Options captured include Male and Female |
| Age | Optional narrowing field | Useful for common names |
The BOP by-name interface is shown in the image below from the BOP find-by-name page.
Those fields explain why a federal search can succeed even when a Cambria County Prison inquiry does not apply.
FCI Loretto Contact
Use the BOP institution contact information for Federal Correctional Institution Loretto. The county prison phone number is not the correct source for BOP visit approval, federal inmate mail, commissary lists, or national money procedures. A family member who is unsure whether a person is local or federal should first identify the custody system, then use the matching agency.
Federal Correctional Institution Loretto
772 Saint Joseph Street
Loretto, PA 15940
(814) 472-4140
Federal Bureau of Prisons facility
FCI Loretto Visiting
Visiting at Federal Correctional Institution Loretto follows BOP rules and the institution-specific visiting regulations PDF. BOP's general visiting rules state that visitors must be approved and on the inmate's visiting list. The inmate receives a visitor information form, completes the inmate portion, sends it to the potential visitor, and the visitor returns the completed form. BOP may run background checks and can contact law enforcement as part of the approval process.
BOP also warns visitors to follow dress-code and conduct rules and to confirm local schedules because the warden can limit or cancel visits for safety, security, weather, or operational reasons. The FCI Loretto visiting PDF is the correct local document for the institution. Do not use Cambria County Prison weekday lobby hours for FCI Loretto visits.
| Visit Item | Rule Source | Practical Use |
|---|---|---|
| Visitor approval | BOP general visiting rules | Must be on the inmate's approved visiting list |
| Local schedule | FCI Loretto visiting regulations PDF | Use the institution PDF and confirm before travel |
| Dress and conduct | BOP general rules and local PDF | Rules can be enforced at entry |
| Cancellations | BOP general rules | Visits may be limited or canceled by the warden |
| County jail visits | Not applicable | Cambria County Prison rules do not control FCI Loretto |
Note: Confirm approval and the current visiting schedule with FCI Loretto before arranging travel.
FCI Loretto Mail Money
Federal mail and money rules are BOP rules. FCI Loretto publishes an admissions and orientation handbook, a commissary list, visiting regulations, and PREA materials through the BOP institution page. Mail should use the inmate's name and federal register number in the format required by BOP. The research also notes a key warning from BOP facility pages: do not send money to the institution address unless current national BOP money procedures specifically say to do so.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mail Address | Use BOP inmate name and register number under current BOP mail rules |
| Phone / Communications | BOP federal inmate communications rules |
| Money Deposit | Use current national BOP money procedures, not the institution street address |
| Commissary | FCI Loretto commissary list linked from the BOP institution page |
FCI Loretto Custody Path
FCI Loretto is not a street-arrest booking jail for Cambria County. A person usually reaches BOP custody after federal criminal proceedings, sentencing, designation, and transport into the federal prison system. BOP then classifies and houses the person under federal rules. For that reason, local county terms such as county bond posting, county booking log, and county mugshot roster do not describe the main FCI Loretto process.
Some searches can be confusing because a person may be arrested locally, face federal charges, or be moved between custody systems. If the person is a local defendant, start with Cambria County Prison, VINE, and UJS. If the person is sentenced federal custody, use BOP. If the person is in immigration custody, use ICE ODLS. If the person was state-sentenced from a Pennsylvania case, use the Pennsylvania DOC locator instead of BOP.
| Custody System | Who It Covers | Lookup Path |
|---|---|---|
| Cambria County Prison | Local pretrial and county commitments | Prison phone, VINE, UJS, open records |
| Pennsylvania DOC | State-sentenced inmates and parolees | PA DOC locator |
| Federal BOP | Sentenced federal inmates | BOP Inmate Locator |
| ICE | Current immigration detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator System |
About FCI Loretto
Federal Correctional Institution Loretto is the active federal facility in Cambria County. The institution page links BOP documents for visiting, admissions and orientation, commissary, and PREA. Those documents are more reliable for FCI Loretto than county prison PDFs because the two facilities have different operators, different populations, and different custody rules.
Federal records also differ from county records. BOP's inmate locator is for federal inmate location and status; it does not publish county booking details or a public mugshot gallery. BOP release-date information may be affected by federal sentence calculations, including First Step Act recalculations. For court filings tied to federal criminal cases, use federal court sources rather than Cambria County criminal docket pages.
- BOP
- Federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency operating FCI Loretto.
- Register number
- A federal inmate identifier used for BOP searches and mail.
- Satellite camp
- A minimum-security federal camp adjacent to the main institution.
Note: Federal custody details should be confirmed through BOP before visiting, mailing, or sending funds.