Dartmouth Women's Center Inmate Lookup

Dartmouth Women's Center Overview

Dartmouth Women's Center is operated by the Bristol County Sheriff's Office at 400 Faunce Corner Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. It shares the Dartmouth campus address and main phone number with the Bristol County House of Correction & Jail, but BCSO describes it as its own self-contained medium-security women's facility.

BCSO says the Women's Center can house a maximum of 106 women. It serves women in county custody, including pretrial and sentenced women, and it carries a program profile that differs from the larger male and mixed-security Dartmouth jail population. Sheriff Paul Heroux's office posts the Women's Center in the official facility list, so it should not be treated as merely a wing name when confirming a woman's location.

For practical purposes, the Women's Center sits between two common public questions. The first is custody confirmation, which still goes through the BCSO inmate information extension because no official web roster was found. The second is facility-specific access, because visiting, mail details, program references, and bail check-in instructions can point to the Women's Center even when the mailing address uses the broader Dartmouth House of Correction format.

The official BCSO facilities page lists the Women's Center with the House of Correction & Jail and Ash Street Jail.

That official separation is why visitor scheduling and custody totals are presented differently for the Women's Center.

Dartmouth Women's Center Capacity and Population

The BCSO facility page lists the Women's Center's maximum as 106 women. The BCSO homepage custody count dated 6-15-26 listed Women's Center pretrial custody at 34, sentenced custody at 26, and the Women's Center total at 60. Those are the best current public facility-specific numbers in the research.

The Dartmouth PREA audit covers the broader Dartmouth Correctional Complex and includes both women/girls and men/boys in the population designation, but the Women's Center has its own BCSO maximum capacity and daily custody total. Keep those source types separate when comparing figures.

The BCSO homepage displays Women's Center totals next to Dartmouth HOC and Ash Street.

Those totals support population context, but they are not a searchable roster by name.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Dartmouth Women's Center

No separate public Women's Center roster was found on the official BCSO site. Use the BCSO inmate information line, 508-995-6400 ext. 2535, for current custody confirmation. Give the caller's best available information: full legal name, date of birth, arresting city or town if known, and that the person may be at the Dartmouth Women's Center.

1. Call 508-995-6400 ext. 2535 and ask for current BCSO inmate information.
2. Confirm whether the woman is at the Women's Center, another Dartmouth unit, Ash Street, court, or no longer in BCSO custody.
3. Use MassCourts or the clerk's office for charges, docket dates, bail orders, and case disposition.
4. For records that are not available by phone, write to BCSO RAO Michael C. Arnold at publicrecords@bcso-ma.org.

Use Mass.gov's DOC lookup instructions and VINELink only when the person is in Massachusetts state-prison custody. Use BOP for federal custody and ICE ODLS for current immigration custody. Bristol's former ICE detention relationship ended in 2021, so immigration custody questions should be routed to ICE ODLS rather than the Women's Center or Dartmouth campus.

Dartmouth Women's Center Address and Contact

The Women's Center uses the Dartmouth campus address and main BCSO phone. Bail check-in for people posting bail is also described by BCSO as starting at the DWC security desk, which makes it especially important to distinguish the Women's Center security desk from ordinary visit or records questions.

Visiting Someone at Dartmouth Women's Center

Dartmouth Women's Center visiting is listed separately from the larger Dartmouth HOC unit schedule. The BCSO visitor schedule effective 05/24/2026 places Women's Center visits on Saturday and Sunday by wing. Adult and minor Request to Visit forms must be submitted online, and processing may take up to 7 business days. Adults need valid government ID. Minors need a birth certificate and guardian signature.

Because visits are tied to the woman's wing, confirm the wing and approval before traveling to the Dartmouth campus.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Dartmouth Women's Center

BCSO research shows the Women's Center uses the Dartmouth House of Correction mail address format. The envelope should include inmate name, ID number, and unit or cell number. Mail is searched for contraband, and visitors cannot drop mail or parcels during visits. Legal and privileged mail copying rules apply under BCSO's posted contraband policy.

The BCSO money deposit page lists free mailed money orders plus Access Corrections online, app, phone, and kiosk methods.

The official page does not publish a full Access Corrections fee table, so fees should be checked with the vendor at the time of deposit.

Booking, Classification, and Women's Center Placement

Initial intake may begin at Ash Street because official PREA material identifies Ash Street as the regional intake and booking area. A woman who remains in BCSO custody can later be routed to the Dartmouth campus and placed at the Women's Center after admission, screening, and classification. The Women's Center's separate identity becomes important after a housing assignment exists because visits, mail routing, and program access depend on the facility and wing.

For case details after booking, use MassCourts or the clerk's office. BCSO can confirm custody through the inmate information line, but court charges, case disposition, and some bail details originate with the Trial Court.

About Dartmouth Women's Center

BCSO describes the Women's Center as self-contained and medium security. Programs include a Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program in a separate unit with a structured treatment and work schedule. The research also identifies Pre-GED and GED access, domestic-violence victim counseling and safe reentry planning, Culinary Arts vocational training, Parenting, Life Skills, HIV Prevention and Awareness, Anger Management, AA, NA, and faith-based services.

Those program details are especially important for Women's Center readers because they explain why the facility is treated separately from the larger Dartmouth jail operation. A woman may be counted in the Women's Center population total, scheduled under a Women's Center wing block, and still use the same BCSO records, phone, money, and mail systems as other Dartmouth campus inmates.

The Women's Center's public identity is also practical for families: a woman may be counted separately in BCSO daily totals, scheduled by wing for visits, and still use the same Dartmouth campus address and inmate information line as the House of Correction.