Find Oregon Correctional Center Inmates

Oregon Center Inmate Overview

Oregon Correctional Center is operated by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections through the Wisconsin Correctional Center System. The research identifies Jonathan Bussie as superintendent on the official page and describes OCC as a minimum-security adult male correctional center. It is one of the Dane County DOC facilities that must be separated from the sheriff's jail system because its population is sentenced state prisoners, not newly booked pretrial residents.

The official history gives Oregon Correctional Center a farm-based origin. DOC says the original buildings were built in 1928 for housing inmates who worked on the adjacent correctional farm. That background still connects to the center's current role, which emphasizes work release, substance-use programming, community crews, and reentry planning for qualified inmates.

The official DOC Oregon Correctional Center page is the source for the facility description, address, phone, capacity, and program notes. This image shows the DOC page used for Oregon Correctional Center facility records.

The DOC source confirms that Oregon Correctional Center is part of state correctional custody, so the correct inmate search path is the statewide DOC locator.

Oregon Center Capacity

Research from the official DOC facility page lists Oregon Correctional Center with a capacity of 112 adult male inmates. That capacity is distinct from the Dane County jail bed figures used for the Public Safety Building and City-County Building. A person counted at Oregon Correctional Center is part of the Wisconsin DOC population physically located in Dane County.

The research describes the Wisconsin Correctional Center System as an institution of 14 adult male centers overseen by a warden whose office is centrally located in Madison. Oregon Correctional Center is therefore both local to Dane County and part of a statewide correctional-center structure.

Search Oregon Center Inmates

Use the Wisconsin DOC Persons in Our Care / Offender Locator to search for someone at Oregon Correctional Center. DOC's own general guidance says the locator is for people sentenced to state prison and housed in DOC facilities. If a person is not found in DOC search, the person may be held in a city or county jail, which is administered separately. In Dane County, that means a searcher may need to check the sheriff roster or Wisconsin VINE after the DOC search.

1. Open the DOC locator and search by name or DOC number.
2. Use birth information or other filters when common names produce several matches.
3. Check the facility field in the DOC result for Oregon Correctional Center.
4. If the record is not in DOC, use Dane County jail records for local custody or VINE for notification options.

Oregon Center Contact

Oregon Correctional Center contact information should be used for facility-specific questions, visiting rules, and DOC procedures. It should not be used as a shortcut around the DOC locator. Search the DOC record first, then contact the center only when the record or the facility's public instructions point there.

Visit Oregon Center Inmates

Visiting at Oregon Correctional Center follows Wisconsin DOC rules, not Dane County jail visiting rules. The research points to DOC visiting information requiring a DOC-21AA Visitor Questionnaire and placement on an approved visiting list. Facility-specific visiting links or memos control the live schedule, so the current DOC page should be checked before travel.

Because Oregon Correctional Center is minimum security and uses work-release programming, schedules can interact with assignment status. A custody record confirms location, but the facility's current rules control whether and when a visit can occur.

Oregon Center Mail and Money

DOC mail and deposit rules apply at Oregon Correctional Center. The research notes that the DOC money, mail, and property page lists centralized mail for Oregon as the person's name and DOC number, Oregon Correctional Center, PO Box 189, Phoenix, Maryland 21131. It also separately lists the physical institution address at 5140 Highway M in Oregon, Wisconsin. Legal or official mail can have different routing, so the DOC page should be checked before mailing sensitive documents.

Oregon Center Programs

Oregon Correctional Center has concrete program details in the research. It uses evidence-based Substance Use Disorder programming with a cognitive-behavioral component. It also offers work release through local employers for qualified inmates, with an emphasis on maintaining employment after release. Earnings may help pay fees, restitution, and other obligations.

Work release is not automatic. The research notes that offsite work opportunities depend on risk and case evaluation and cannot be guaranteed. Oregon Correctional Center also uses community enhancement crews for local governments and nonprofits. A distinctive local program raises pheasant chicks with the Department of Natural Resources for youth hunts and hunter education.

Those programs also explain why an Oregon Correctional Center record may matter after the court case appears resolved. A DOC placement can affect work location, treatment access, release planning, and restitution payments long after the Dane County booking event has ended. Families should read the DOC locator as a current custody source and use court records only to understand the sentence or case history.

Oregon Center Records Context

Oregon Correctional Center records may connect to several systems. The DOC locator confirms state custody. Court records may show the sentence and case status. Dane County jail records may show an earlier booking before transfer. The systems should not be merged into one search because each agency controls a different stage of the custody path.

For local pretrial custody, use Dane County jail inmate records. For sentenced prison custody at Oregon Correctional Center, use DOC. For custody-change alerts, use Wisconsin VINE where available. This split is the main safeguard against using the wrong roster for a state facility.

If the DOC locator shows a different facility, follow that current placement instead of assuming the person remains at Oregon Correctional Center. DOC can move people between institutions and correctional centers for classification, program, medical, work-release, or operational reasons.