Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for the custody and care of federal inmates in the United States. The BOP operates the inmate locator and publishes facility information online but does not currently offer a public, documented developer API.

Federal Bureau of Prisons is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Corrections, Federal Government, and Prisons.

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16.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemium

0 APIs

CorrectionsFederal GovernmentPrisons

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 16.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 4.1 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Federal Bureau Of Prisons Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Federal Bureau Of Prisons Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Federal Bureau Of Prisons Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Federal Bureau Of Prisons Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Careers

Careers

Source (apis.yml)

aid: federal-bureau-of-prisons
name: Federal Bureau of Prisons
description: The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for the custody and care of federal inmates in the United
  States. The BOP operates the inmate locator and publishes facility information online but does not currently offer a public,
  documented developer API.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/federal-bureau-of-prisons.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-11-30'
modified: '2026-07-25'
position: Consumer
tags:
- Corrections
- Federal Government
- Prisons
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-bureau-of-prisons/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/federal-bureau-of-prisons-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/officialfbop
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bop.gov
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.bop.gov/jobs/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com