When it comes to finding an inmate in the Rockview State Correctional Institution, you will be happy to know that they have an inmate database available online for you to search through.

This inmate database is available on the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections official website.

You can search for an inmate using the following pieces of identifying information:

• CDCR Number

• Inmate’s Full Name

You will want to keep in mind that this database includes all the Pennsylvania state facilities. This is not a database just for the Rockview State Correctional Institution.

While an inmate is serving out their sentence in the Rockview State Correctional Institution, they can send and receive letters from their loved ones on the outside.

When sending a letter to the Rockview State Correctional Institution, you will need to know what facility they are in to ensure your letter is received by the inmate.

Once you know what facility they are in you can send the letters to the following address:

Rockview State Correctional Institution

Inmate Name & Number

1 Rockview Place, Bellefonte, PA, 16823

The Rockview State Correctional Institution will accept money being sent to them from three different methods. These methods are the following:

• Electronic Funds Transfer

• Lock Box

• Mail a Money Order or a Check

If an inmate needs funds within the next few days, it is best to use the electronic funds transfer. However, you will be paying a service fee, but the inmate will receive the funds within 1-3 business days.

If you opt-in to use the lockbox or mailing methods, there is no fee to use them, but they will take longer than the electronic funds transfer.

The Rockview State Correctional Institution is big on keeping communication lines open between the inmates and their family. Inmates will have the chance to contact their family members.

Inmates will be able to make 15-minute phone calls home. This phone calls home will be monitored by prison staff to ensure the safety for everyone involved.

These phone calls will be at the inmate or the family’s expense, so inmates will need money in their commissary accounts.

The Rockview State Correctional Institution allows inmates to have visitors. If you would like to visit an inmate, while they are in the Rockview State Correctional Institution, you will first need to read the following visitor guidelines.

Once you have read the guidelines, you can then set up an appointment to visit an inmate using the system. You will be required to have a visit scheduled in order to come to the facility.

Please keep in mind that all juveniles (children under the age of 18) must always be accompanied by an adult while they are in the Rockview State Correctional Institution.

VISITATION HOURS

• Monday

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• Tuesday

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• Wednesday

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• Thursday

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• Friday

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• Saturday

  9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

• Sunday

  9:00 AM to 3:00 PM