Prison Navigator stores one record per facility: the facility's name, its type, its state and its operating agency, compiled from the Wikipedia categories “Prisons in <State>”, “Jails in <State>” and the U.S. federal-prison categories, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where a facility has its own Wikipedia article, the facility page links it as a background reference. This site holds no agency policy text; it publishes no visiting, mail, phone or money rules.
Visiting hours, mail, phone and money rules were removed in October 2026 after a review found they could not be traced to a source.