Locate California Medical Facility Inmates

California Medical Facility Overview

California Medical Facility, often shortened to CMF, is operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. It sits in Vacaville, within the Solano County prison cluster, but it is a state prison with CDCR custody rules. It does not book people after a local arrest, it does not publish a county jail roster, and it is not the right destination for most pretrial Solano County inmate searches. A person arrives in CDCR custody after a state-prison sentence, transfer, classification decision, or medical placement within the state system.

CMF is a medium-security medical facility identified in CDCR planning material as Level II/III. The population is sentenced male CDCR prisoners, with a mission tied to health care, mental health care, dental care, and higher-need housing. CDCR describes the prison as a central place for medical, psychiatric, and dental care for male felons. Solano County readers often confuse CMF with the county detention facilities in Fairfield, but the lookup path changes after transfer to state custody. For a local arrest that has not become a prison sentence, the county roster remains the better starting point.

California Medical Facility Population

CDCR source material gives California Medical Facility a design capacity of 2,316. The March 25, 2026 CDCR TPOP weekly count reported 2,136 people at CMF, which CDCR listed as 92.2 percent of design capacity. A February 18, 2026 count in the same research set reported 2,169 people, 93.7 percent of design capacity, with staffed capacity listed separately. Those figures are prison population counts, not the Solano County jail average daily population.

California Medical Facility Inmate Lookup

The correct search tool is CDCR CIRIS, the statewide incarcerated records search. CIRIS is built for California state prison custody. It can show a person's name, CDCR number, age, current location, commitment county, admission date, and parole board information when those fields are available. It is not a certified court record, and it does not replace Solano Superior Court records for charges, convictions, or case filings. For a person recently arrested in Solano County, check whether the person is still in the county jail before assuming a CMF placement.

1. Open CDCR CIRIS and choose the search path by CDCR number or by name.
2. Enter the CDCR number when known. If not known, search by last name and narrow with first name, middle name, age, or age range.
3. Review the current location field and confirm whether it says California Medical Facility or CMF.
4. Use the CDCR number and location when asking CDCR about visiting approval, mail format, or account deposits.

CDCR lists its Identification Unit as a help channel for locator questions at 916-445-6713, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding state holidays. That number is for state locator help. County jail release dates, county booking photos, and county bail questions remain with Solano County jail channels, not CMF.

California Medical Facility Contact

California Medical Facility publishes separate addresses for facility staff, incarcerated-person mail, and money orders. The main phone is the starting point for general institution contact, but family members should expect CDCR rules to control visiting approval, mail review, phone access, and trust account deposits. Names and CDCR numbers matter when sending mail or asking about a specific person.

California Medical Facility Visits

CDCR visitation is handled through state prison rules, not the Solano jail iWebVisit system. Visitors use CDCR visiting resources for approval, scheduling, institution-specific directions, allowable items, dress rules, and visiting status updates. A person who is approved to visit at a county jail is not automatically approved for a CDCR prison visit. The visitor approval process, valid identification, security screening, and conduct rules all come from CDCR.

CMF's medical mission can affect movement, housing, and visit logistics more than a standard local jail visit. Confirm the person is still assigned to CMF in CIRIS before travel. Then check CDCR visiting status and any institution instructions for the date of the visit.

California Medical Facility Mail

CDCR mail and money rules are separate from Solano County jail Pigeonly, iCare, and TouchPay processes. For CMF, the research identifies an inmate mailing address at P.O. Box 2000 and a money-order address at P.O. Box 2500 in Vacaville. CDCR's send-money resources should be checked before sending funds because vendor options and transaction rules can change. Do not use the county jail commissary pages for someone housed at California Medical Facility.

California Medical Facility Intake

CMF intake is not street-arrest booking. A person arrested in Solano County starts in the local system if the person is held pending court. After conviction and a state-prison sentence, CDCR may receive, classify, and place the person at an institution based on custody level, bed space, medical needs, mental health needs, programming, and security. That is why a Solano County court case can lead to a prison placement in Vacaville while the person no longer appears on the Solano sheriff's in-custody list.

The same distinction applies to federal or immigration custody. No federal Bureau of Prisons prison or ICE detention facility was found physically in Solano County during the research. If a person is in federal prison custody, use the BOP locator. If a person is in ICE custody, use ODLS. California Medical Facility is a CDCR institution, so CDCR CIRIS remains the correct lookup when CMF is the current location.

California Medical Facility Programs

CDCR describes CMF as a long-standing health-care prison. The Legislature established it in 1955 to provide centrally located medical, psychiatric, and dental care for male felons. The research identifies outpatient clinics, an outpatient housing unit, a licensed medical correctional treatment center, a 400-bed inpatient psychiatric correctional treatment center, a 50-bed mental health crisis bed correctional treatment center, and the first licensed prison hospice in the United States. CDCR material also notes that CMF serves as a resource for the state system and works with community consultants and hospitals.

Education and treatment programs at CMF include Adult Basic Education, GED preparation, HiSET preparation, voluntary education, face-to-face college through Solano Community College, and distance learning through Coastline, Lassen, Ohio State, and California Coast. The research also lists a computer lab, a computer-based GED exam center, an online career technical education testing lab, Computer and Related Technology CTE, Disability Placement Program services, and Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment. CDCR reported health-related local items in 2025, including a population-health fair and memory-care nursing work for incarcerated patients in cognitive decline.