Finding WI DOC incarcerated people's locations

This is a Node app that will find the current location of people incarcerated by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. It does this by reading the incarcerated people's data that you enter into the not-located.json file, scraping the WI DOC "Offender Locator" site using those data, and then outputting an updated version of the data with current locations to the located.json file.

Getting started

Installation

Clone this repository and then install the app's dependencies by running the command:

npm i

Data setup

An array of DOC numbers needs to be added to the not-located.json file for the incarcerated people whose locations need to be found.

For example:

[100001, 100002, 100003]

Running the app

To run the app, enter the command:

npm start

Results

The app will output data to the located.json file.

For example:

[
  {
    "docNumber": 100001,
    "location": "Columbia Correctional Institution"
  },
  {
    "docNumber": 100002,
    "location": "Fox Lake Correctional Institution"
  },
  {
    "docNumber": 100003,
    "location": "Waupun Correctional Institution"
  }
]

Not found, not listed, and errors

In some cases, locations will not be added to the results:

• If a person is not found in the system their location will be listed as "Not found"
• If a person is found with no institution listed their location will be listed as "Not listed"
• If the app runs into an error while finding a person's location their location will be listed as "Error locating person with DOC# {docNumber}
  • In this case, you can either re-run the app with the DOC numbers that resulted in errors or search with the DOC number manually on the "Offender Locator" site