Texas County Jail Overview
The Texas County Justice Center is the county jail operated by the Texas County Sheriff's Office. It is the local custody point for people booked by the sheriff, city police, Missouri State Highway Patrol, warrant agencies, and other agencies that use the county jail. It is separate from South Central Correctional Center in Licking. The Justice Center holds local pretrial detainees, sentenced misdemeanants serving county time, people held on warrants, agency holds, and people waiting for transport. Sentenced Missouri prison custody is searched through the state prison system instead.
The official sheriff page says the Justice Center houses a 72-bed county jail and gives unusually specific local staff facts. The jail staff includes 15 full-time jailers, 3 part-time jailers, 1 jail administrator, 1 assistant jail administrator, and 2 full-time cooks. Sheriff Scott Lindsey is named on the county page, and the same page says the office handles prisoner transport to state correctional facilities, federal prisons, and other holding facilities. That transport duty matters for a Texas County inmate search because a person can move out of the jail and stop being a county jail lookup issue.
The official sheriff page is the source for the Justice Center and jail staffing facts shown here.
The county page confirms the sheriff-run jail, but it does not provide an online current-inmate roster or a mugshot gallery in the reviewed sources.
Texas County Jail Capacity
Texas County Justice Center has one sourced local capacity number: the sheriff page says the Justice Center houses a 72-bed jail. The county pages reviewed did not publish a live current inmate count, annual booking total, average daily population dashboard, sex or race breakdown, housing-unit count, or held-for-other-agency count. Because those figures were not located in official county sources, they should not be supplied as if they were local jail facts.
Countywide trend data comes from Vera's incarceration trend file, not from a live Texas County jail dashboard. The strongest facility-specific number is still the 72-bed jail capacity from the county sheriff page. For current custody status, call the jail before relying on older trend data or court records. A person can be booked, released, moved to DOC, or held for another agency before a public court entry catches up.
Texas County Jail Lookup
No official online Texas County public jail roster, inmate search, booking report, or mugshot gallery was located in the reviewed county website or sheriff resources page. A Texas County Justice Center inmate lookup therefore begins with direct sheriff or jail contact. The broader Texas County jail inmate records page explains the same access chain for local jail records, but the facility-specific point is simple: the Justice Center is the local jail, and the sheriff is the operator.
- Start with the Texas County Sheriff's Office and ask whether the person is currently held at the Justice Center.
- Have the full name, date of birth or age, arrest date, arresting agency, and any known case or warrant number ready.
- Call 417-967-4165 and ask whether bond is set, whether a hold exists, and whether the person has been transferred.
- Check Missouri Case.net if formal charges may have been filed after booking.
- Use Missouri DOC Offender Search if the person has been sentenced and moved to state prison.
- Use Missouri VINELink for custody notification when the record appears there.
- Check BOP or ICE ODLS only if custody has shifted to federal or immigration authorities.
| Access channel | Use it for | Texas County limit |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff or jail phone | Current local custody, bond, holds, transfer questions | Main county path because no online roster was found |
| In-person jail inquiry | Public counter questions and records direction | Call first because jail lobby rules were not published |
| Case.net | Filed charges, court dates, bond orders, docket entries | Not a jail roster and not a mugshot source |
| Sunshine request | Arrest, booking, incident, or jail records | Records may be closed, redacted, or fee-based |
| DOC, VINELink, BOP, ICE | Custody after transfer or notification | Each system covers a different custody level |
Note: Case.net can explain the court case, while the jail is still the better source for same-day custody status.
Texas County Justice Center Contact
The Texas County Justice Center and Sheriff's Office contact point should be used before a visit, records trip, mail attempt, property drop-off, or money deposit. The county pages reviewed did not locate a separate jail records web form, jail lobby schedule, or online inmate account vendor. Ask the staff which desk handles custody questions, whether the person is still housed at the jail, and whether the issue belongs with the court, prosecutor, DOC, or another agency.
Texas County Justice Center
519 N Grand Ave
Houston, MO 65483
417-967-4165
Sheriff-operated county jail; call before travel for custody, visit, mail, and money questions.
The Texas County circuit clerk is also in the Justice Center on the second floor, with posted court office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. That office is for court records and Case.net entries, not jail housing decisions. The sheriff page says Sheriff Scott Lindsey can be reached by pressing extension 307 during the phone menu for normal business-hour contact, and Texas County 911 handles dispatch.
Texas County Jail Visits
Texas County official sources reviewed do not publish the Justice Center visitation schedule, visit type, dress code, child visitor rules, attorney visit procedure, locker rules, or visitor property limits. That absence is important. Do not assume a visit is available at a certain time, by video, or on a given day. Call the jail first, confirm that the person is still in county custody, and ask what identification and arrival rules apply that day.
| Item | Texas County Justice Center source result |
|---|---|
| Public schedule | Not located in official county sources reviewed |
| Visit type | Not located; in-person, video, and remote rules were not published |
| Visitor ID | Not located; bring government photo ID and call first |
| Dress code | Not located in the county pages reviewed |
| Child visitors | Not located in the county pages reviewed |
| Attorney visits | Not located in the county pages reviewed |
| Lockers and property | Not located; confirm before bringing items |
Visits can be affected by classification, lockdown, transport, court, medical status, or a hold from another agency. A person may also bond out or move to South Central Correctional Center or another DOC facility after sentencing. Texas County's rural geography can make wasted trips costly, so phone confirmation is more than a formality.
Texas County Jail Mail
The reviewed county sources did not publish a Justice Center mail format, mail scanning vendor, approved-property list, commissary vendor, phone provider, video-call vendor, deposit kiosk, online money account, or fee schedule. Families should not send cash, packages, medication, clothing, books, or photos until the jail confirms current rules. Ask whether the person is eligible for mail or commissary and whether a court, medical, disciplinary, or transfer status changes the answer.
| Service | Provider or detail |
|---|---|
| Mail address format | Not located in official county sources reviewed |
| Mail scanning or vendor | Not located in official county sources reviewed |
| Money deposit vendor | Not located in official county sources reviewed |
| Commissary ordering | Not located in official county sources reviewed |
| Phone provider or pricing | Not located in official county sources reviewed |
For sentenced prisoners who have moved to Missouri DOC, county jail mail and money rules no longer control. Use DOC family and friends information for prison visits, prison mail, deposits, and phone calls. The Texas County inmate population overview separates the county jail population from the state prison population for that reason.
Texas County Booking Intake
Booking at the Texas County Justice Center follows a local jail path, not a prison admission path. The county pages reviewed do not include a county booking manual, so specific steps such as property receipts, medical screening forms, housing-unit assignments, and phone access should be confirmed with the jail. A typical local booking may include identity confirmation, warrant checks, search, property inventory, fingerprints, booking photo, screening, classification, and placement in a holding or housing area. That is a process description, not a promise that each record is public online.
After booking, the court side moves separately. The prosecuting attorney controls formal criminal charges. The circuit clerk maintains court records once they exist. A jail booking charge can differ from the prosecutor-filed charge in Case.net. A person might also be held on a bench warrant, probation or parole hold, another county warrant, DOC hold, federal hold, or immigration detainer. Ask the jail whether any hold blocks release even if a bond amount appears in court records.
- Booking
- Administrative jail intake after arrest.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency that can delay release or transfer.
- Remand
- A court order keeping a person in custody.
- Classification
- The jail's housing and security assessment.
Texas County Jail Records
Missouri Sunshine Law provides the public-record framework for county jail and arrest records, but it does not mean every law-enforcement record is online or unredacted. Section 610.011 states the open-records policy, Section 610.023 covers records custodian procedures, and Section 610.100 addresses arrest reports, incident reports, and investigative reports. Investigative material may be closed or redacted. Closed criminal records have separate limits under Section 610.120.
A useful Sunshine request should name the person, date of arrest or booking, arresting agency, case or warrant number if known, and the record type requested. For a Texas County Justice Center record, that may mean a booking record, arrest report, incident report, custody status, release or transfer information, or booking photo if releasable. Do not ask the jail for legal advice, and do not treat a records request as a release order. Jail custody decisions, court bond orders, and records access are related but separate tasks.
About Texas County Justice Center
The Justice Center is a strong local anchor in Texas County's justice system. County history places the Justice Center build period in 2007-08, while the courthouse history includes a 1932 courthouse with later remodels. The sheriff's page adds rural operating context: Texas County is Missouri's largest county by area, with more than 1,000 miles of county-maintained gravel roads, plus forestry roads and paved roads. Arrests can come from Houston, Cabool, Licking, Summersville, rural patrol areas, or partner agencies.
The sheriff resources page lists Case.net, Missouri statutes, background checks, the Missouri Sex Offender Registry, city police departments, and public-safety brochures. The county history page supplies the Justice Center build-period context. Neither county source lists a Texas County jail app, online jail roster, active mugshot gallery, or inmate deposit vendor in the reviewed material. That makes direct confirmation the most reliable first move for local jail custody. Once a person is sentenced and transferred, the lookup moves away from the Justice Center and into Missouri DOC systems.
Note: Confirm custody, visit rules, mail rules, and money options with the jail before travel or sending anything.