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Bridgeport Correctional Center Custody Overview

Bridgeport Correctional Center sits at the corner of North Avenue and Madison Avenue in Bridgeport. The Connecticut Department of Correction runs it. Connecticut is not a county-jail state. In 1968 the state folded every county jail and state prison into one department, so Fairfield County does not run its own jail or its own inmate roster. The official page calls this a Level 4 high-security facility that confines both pretrial and sentenced offenders. It serves the Superior Courts of Ansonia, Derby, Milford, Bridgeport, Danbury, Norwalk, and Stamford. That broad court reach makes it the practical hub for Fairfield County arrests, well beyond the City of Bridgeport.

The facility also manages a sentenced Level 2 minimum-security unit. That unit holds an inmate work force that qualifies for outside clearance jobs and community support programs. Most of the population lives in three open dorm units. Madison holds 58 Level 2 inmates. Fairmount holds 208 Level 4 inmates. Memorial holds 240 Level 4 inmates. Those dorms were built in 1986 and 1992. The current warden listed on the official page is Jesus Guadarrama, and staffing stands at 325. Programming spans addiction, recreation, education, volunteer, and religious services.

The Department of Correction posts the address, phone, security level, courts served, and history on its official facility page at portal.ct.gov.

That page is the starting point any time you need to confirm a Bridgeport Correctional Center fact before you travel or send mail.

Who Is Held at Bridgeport Correctional Center

Two groups live here. The first is people held before trial, whom the Department of Correction calls accused offenders. The second is sentenced offenders serving their time. Because the facility takes both, being listed in custody here does not mean a person has been convicted. The Department of Correction states plainly that current incarceration does not necessarily indicate conviction, since the system also holds people on accused status awaiting trial.

The court reach is wide. Bridgeport Correctional Center serves the Superior Courts of Ansonia, Derby, Milford, Bridgeport, Danbury, Norwalk, and Stamford. So a person booked after an arrest in Norwalk or Stamford may land here even though the case is miles away. The Level 2 workforce unit adds a third slice: sentenced inmates cleared for outside jobs and community support roles. People with serious mental-health needs are often assigned instead to Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, which carries a statewide treatment mission.

Bridgeport Correctional Center Capacity and Population

The facility runs below its designed capacity. The 2024 federal PREA audit, dated November 13, 2024, listed a designed capacity of 925, a snapshot population of 665, and a 12-month average daily population of 584. The auditor reported no over-capacity point in the prior year and recorded all 45 audited standards as met. Average daily population, often shortened to ADP, is the mean head count across a stretch of time rather than a single day.

The newest count comes from the state open-data portal. On June 2, 2026, Bridgeport Correctional Center held 578 people in total, split into 481 accused or other and 97 sentenced. That heavy pretrial share is a reminder that most people here are awaiting their day in court. The figure sits well under the 925 design number.

Counts here swing year to year. The table below tracks the early-June head count across five years, drawn from the same daily population dataset.

The pattern dipped sharply in 2023, climbed back through 2025, and eased again in 2026. The daily counts come from the CT open data facility dataset, which breaks each facility down by legal status and date.

How to Look Up a Bridgeport Inmate

There is no Fairfield County jail roster to search. Custody runs through the state, so the right tool is the Connecticut Department of Correction inmate search at ctinmateinfo.state.ct.us. It covers people in state custody, both accused and sentenced, at Bridgeport Correctional Center and every other CT DOC facility. The Department updates it daily. A general walkthrough of the lookup process also lives on the jail inmate records page.

1. Open the official CT DOC inmate search and skip any county sheriff page, since Connecticut has none for jails.
2. Search by CT DOC number if you have it, because a unique number avoids common-name mix-ups. Otherwise search by name and add a date of birth when you know it.
3. Read the facility field in the result and confirm the person shows as held at Bridgeport Correctional Center.
4. Open the record for legal status, offense, admission date, and any detainer, then treat it as a daily snapshot rather than a final court outcome.

The search leaves out two groups. People covered by the Youthful Offender statute do not appear, and people held only for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement are not listed either. If you find no match, check the court docket by name, call the Public Information Office, or try the federal and ICE locators. The Department refers immigration detainer questions to its regional immigration office at 617-565-4946.

Bridgeport Correctional Center Address and Contact

The facility takes general calls at its main number. For records and broader inmate questions, the Department routes the public to its central Public Information Office in Wethersfield, which answers weekday calls and handles written requests. The contact card below carries the core details for reaching the facility.

If the facility cannot answer a records question, write or call the CT DOC Public Information Office at 24 Wolcott Hill Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109, or phone (860) 692-7780 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The facility sits at the corner of North Avenue and Madison Avenue. From Hartford, take I-91 south to I-95 south at New Haven, follow I-95 to exit 27A for Route 8/25 north, then exit 4 for Lindley Street, turn right at the bottom of the ramp, and turn right at the next light onto North Avenue. Head west about half a mile, and the facility is on the right. From the Merritt Parkway at Park Avenue, use exit 47, go south 3.7 miles, turn left onto North Avenue, and head east about 0.6 miles, with the facility on the left. From the Merritt Parkway at Route 8, head south to new Route 8/25, continue to exit 5 for Boston Avenue and North Avenue, turn right at the second light, and go south on North Avenue for 1.1 miles to reach the facility on the right.

The Department publishes turn-by-turn driving directions and the cross-street detail on its official directions page.

Use that directions page to plan an approach from your own route, and confirm visitor parking at the facility before you arrive, since rates and lots were not published online.

Visiting Someone at Bridgeport Correctional Center

Visits here must be set up in advance. The facility page allows one in-person visit and one video visit per week. Both are pre-scheduled through the Visit Request Form at visitingrequest.doc.ct.gov, and there are no walk-in visits without a confirmation. Before any visit, the visitor has to be on the inmate's approved active visiting list. The facility schedule lists 30-minute visits with no more than two visitors at a time.

Plan around the rules that apply statewide. Cell phones and other electronic devices are not allowed inside any Connecticut correctional facility. Attire should be reasonably modest, and a visit can be shortened or canceled if you arrive late or for safety reasons. Video visits run on Microsoft Teams, cost nothing, and need a valid email, but they are not scheduled until you receive a confirmation. Check spam folders so a confirmation does not slip past you.

Bridgeport Inmate Mail, Phone, and Money

Letters go straight to the facility, but money never does. Address mail with the inmate's full name and inmate number, followed by 1106 North Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604. Skip padded envelopes, which slow security screening. To add funds, use the CT DOC Inmate Trust Fund or an approved vendor, never the facility address. The table sorts the three channels.

For mailed deposits, send a money order, certified check, or cashier's check with a complete remitter form. Cash and blank money orders are not accepted, and the form needs the inmate's name, number, and date of birth plus the sender's name and full address. The Inmate Trust Fund line is 860-692-7670. Online options include JPay One Click Payments, TouchPay at www.ctdoc.net, and Western Union. For Western Union, pay to Connecticut DOC, use code city CTDOC, and enter the 8-digit inmate number followed by the last name, adding leading zeroes for shorter numbers.

Calls run through Securus. Inmates cannot take incoming calls but can place outgoing collect or billed calls, and a social-contact list may hold up to 10 numbers. Tablets come through a JPay contract, and e-messaging is offered at every facility once you set up a JPay account and add the inmate to the approved list. As of August 18, 2025, tablet media accounts can be funded directly but cannot exceed a $150 balance.

Bridgeport Inmate Programs and Reentry

Programming aims to make time inside productive and to ease the return to the community. The official page lists addiction, recreational, educational, volunteer, and religious services. The program compendium goes further, naming a 12 Step Program, Biohazard Cleaning Training, special education and pupil services, reentry and discharge planning, identification procurement, and Security Risk Group phases. The on-site school can be reached at DOC.BPT-School@ct.gov.

• Addiction, recreational, educational, volunteer, and religious services
• 12 Step Program and Biohazard Cleaning Training
• Reentry and discharge planning that starts at admission
• Identification procurement, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, and state IDs
• Warm handoffs to a local reentry welcome center near release

Reentry work runs through the Department's Offender Re-Entry Services Unit, which puts a full-time reentry counselor in each facility. Planning begins at admission and intensifies in the 18 months before release. Counselors connect people to community referrals, employment services, housing help through 211, veterans services, and bus passes, then hand them off to a welcome center. For people from Bridgeport, the Department lists a local reentry welcome center as a landing point after release.

The unit also handles vital identification documents that newly released people need to find work and housing. Its services and the welcome-center connection are described on the official reentry page.

The Department of Correction outlines reentry planning, ID procurement, and the Bridgeport welcome center on its Offender Re-Entry Services page.

That page is the place to confirm reentry contacts before someone leaves custody.

History of the Bridgeport Facility

Bridgeport Correctional Center opened in 1958. In 1974 the Department built the "New Center" for roughly 310 Level 4 inmates. The oldest part of the complex, the "Old Center," once held the judge's chambers and housing for people awaiting judgment. After a 1990 fire left it beyond repair, that older section was torn down in 1997. The three current dorm units, Madison, Fairmount, and Memorial, went up in 1986 and 1992.

Those building names carry real weight on the page because the population sorts into them by security level. Madison holds the 58 Level 2 workforce inmates, while Fairmount and Memorial together hold the 448 Level 4 inmates. The Level 2 unit is the local detail that sets this facility apart, since few state prisons run a sentenced workforce unit beside a high-security population. The Department posts oversight data too, with the 2024 PREA audit confirming no over-capacity point in the prior year.

Note: Warden and deputy warden names on the official page can change over time, so verify current staff details before relying on them for any request.