Search Tomoka Work Camp Inmates

What Tomoka Work Camp Is

Tomoka Work Camp is run by the Florida Department of Corrections, the state prison agency known as the FDC. It is not a county jail. The camp is listed in the FDC facility directory and is named as a satellite unit of Tomoka Correctional Institution, the parent state prison on the same west side of Volusia County. A satellite unit is a smaller, attached site that the main prison oversees. The camp shares the prison's grounds and address at 3950 Tiger Bay Road in Daytona Beach.

So what is a work camp? It is a lower-custody site where sentenced men handle work assignments under state watch. Think road and grounds crews, maintenance, and support tasks that keep state and public facilities running. The men here have already been tried, found guilty, and sentenced. They are not pretrial detainees waiting on a first court date. Because the work fits people the FDC rates at a lower risk, the camp draws from the minimum and community end of the state custody scale. For deeper background on the parent prison, see the page for Tomoka Correctional Institution.

Who Is Held at Tomoka Work Camp

The camp holds adult male state prisoners assigned to work camp, or satellite, custody. Every person here is a sentenced felon in FDC charge, not a county inmate. The Tomoka PREA audit, the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act review that checks a prison's safety practices, lists a work-camp age range of 22 to 82. That single detail tells you the population skews toward adults of all ages who have earned a lower custody rating.

It helps to define a couple of terms. A felony is a serious crime that can carry more than a year in state prison. Custody level is the FDC's rating of how much supervision a person needs, running from community and minimum up through medium and close. Men at a work camp sit at the lower end of that scale, which is why they qualify for work duty outside a tightly secured housing unit. The FDC does not publish a separate rated capacity for Tomoka Work Camp, and that figure was not located in official sources. Rather than guess, this page leaves the bed count out.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Tomoka Work Camp

Men at the work camp are not on the Volusia county jail roster. They are found through the FDC Offender Search, the statewide locator the Florida Department of Corrections runs. The tool to use is the Inmate Population Information Search. This search covers felony offenders sentenced to state prison or state supervision. It does not cover people held in a county jail, on county probation, or under other local supervision. That split is the heart of every Volusia search: local custody lives on the county roster, while sentenced state custody lives in FDC.

1. Open the FDC Offender Search and pick the Inmate Population Information Search.
2. Enter a last name and first name, or a DC number if you have one. A DC number is the six-character FDC identifier, either all digits or one letter plus five digits.
3. Read the result and confirm the current facility shows the work camp rather than another state site.
4. Open the profile to check the offense, the sentence, and the projected release date.

A profile returns the name, DC number, current location, race, sex, age, a photo, and release status. The FDC warns that location, status, and release dates can shift fast. Inmate population data is fully refreshed once a week, while location and release dates update nightly. If a person you expect is not in the FDC system yet, they may still be in the county jail awaiting transport, in which case they remain on the Volusia county roster until the handoff to state custody.

Tomoka Work Camp Records Versus the County Roster

People mix up the two systems all the time, so it is worth a clear side-by-side. A newly arrested person in Volusia County shows up first on the county roster, not in FDC. Only after a court hands down a state sentence and the FDC takes custody does the record move into the statewide search. The table below sums up which system to use.

If the FDC search returns nothing, do not assume the worst. The person may be spelled differently in the system, may still be in county custody, may have just been released, or may use an alias. Treat an empty result as a prompt to check the county roster and the spelling, not as a dead end.

Tomoka Work Camp Address and Contact

The camp shares the Tiger Bay Road grounds with the parent prison. The phone and fax below are the camp's own lines from the FDC facility directory. For routine custody questions, the FDC offender search is faster than a call, since staff cannot share much by phone.

Visiting Someone at Tomoka Work Camp

Visits at a state work camp follow the FDC statewide rules, which are stricter than a quick county jail visit. A visitor age 12 or older must first fill out form DC6-111A and send it to the facility's classification department, the unit that manages an inmate's custody file. Processing runs about 30 days, so apply well ahead of any planned trip. Approval depends on the visitor's background and the inmate's standing, so a slot is never a sure thing until the application clears.

Once a visitor is approved, visits must be scheduled each week. The FDC scheduling window opens Monday at 5:00 a.m. and closes Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. for that week's visits. Walk-up visits without a scheduled slot are not allowed. Because a work camp is a satellite of the main prison, it may set its own day-to-day specifics that the FDC does not publish, so confirm the exact visiting hours and rules with the facility before you go.

Mail and Money at Tomoka Work Camp

Money for a man at the work camp follows the same statewide FDC route used across the state prison system, not a county vendor. Since May 1, 2024, the FDC money provider has been Correct Pay. Funds can go in online or by phone, and the phone line runs day and night. Mailed money orders, cashier's checks, and certified bank drafts must be made payable to Correct Pay and sent with a deposit slip to the central FDC deposit address in Bradenton. Sending money to the camp's street address does not work for deposits.

A valid copy of the sender's ID must go with a mailed deposit. The FDC funds page lists these same rules for the parent prison and its work camp, so the routing does not change for a satellite site. Because the bank fee and posting time apply, plan a deposit ahead of need.

How Men Are Assigned to Tomoka Work Camp

A work camp does not book people off the street. Men arrive here after the FDC already holds them and a review places them in a lower-custody work setting. Once a court sentences a person in Volusia County, custody passes from the county jail, where booking and pretrial steps are handled, to the FDC. From there, the state decides who fits a work camp.

That decision comes out of classification. Classification is the FDC's process of setting a custody level, from community up through close, and matching housing and work to a person's risk, record, and needs. Men who earn a minimum or community rating may be assigned to a satellite work camp like this one. Because classification drives the placement, a person can move between the parent prison and the camp as their custody status changes. The Volusia County inmate population overview explains how local custody and state custody fit together across the county.

About the Tomoka Work Camp Setting

The work camp operates under the same FDC oversight as the parent prison and draws on the institution's broader slate of education, job-skill, and reentry programs. Work assignments at a camp double as job training, since they build steady habits and hands-on skills that help on release. The camp is one piece of the larger Tomoka complex rather than a standalone facility.

Because the FDC does not publish a separate capacity, visitation schedule, or fee table specific to the work camp, the safe approach is to lean on the statewide FDC resources and the parent institution for anything the directory does not spell out. The FDC facility directory is the source that lists the camp, its address, and its phone and fax numbers. For program detail and visiting context, the parent Tomoka Correctional Institution page carries the fuller picture.