Aransas County Detention Center Inmate Mail
Send an Inmate Mail in the Aransas County Detention Center
Mailing a Letter to an Aransas County Inmate
The jail's contact page gives this inmate mailing address:
[Inmate Name]
[Inmate Number]
308 N Live Oak St.
Rockport, TX 78382-2745
That is the county's mailing address at the new courthouse, not the jail building on Concho Street. Older listings that send mail to 2840 Highway 35 North use the temporary courthouse the county left in January 2026. The inmate number is simply the booking number shown on the current inmates list; your return address belongs in the corner of the envelope.
The county's mail policy, in effect since April 14, 2013, lets inmates send and receive any number of letters with any number of pages. Inmates buy envelopes, paper and stamps from commissary. Prisoners with no funds still write home: the county supplies a weekly three stamped envelopes and nine sheets, and extra materials for legal mail. Personal postage given to an indigent inmate is charged to their account.
Legal mail: the Sheriff’s posted inmate mailing address, 308 N. Live Oak St., Rockport, TX 78382-2745, is the one address the county gives for inmate mail; attorneys can also meet clients at the jail Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–8:00 PM, with a bar card and photo ID. Jail line: 361-790-0168.
Type of Mail Allowed for Aransas County Detention Center
What Can Be Mailed to the Aransas County Detention Center
- Letters: no limit on number or length.
- Magazines and paperback books: only when shipped directly from the publisher. Each magazine issue is reviewed. Material showing gang activity, drug or alcohol use, sexually explicit content, or content that could cause disorder or violence goes back to the publisher with a note, and nothing is refunded.
- Packages: not accepted. Mailed boxes come back to the sender, who pays the return. Relatives who want to send goods use Access Securepak or call 800-546-6283; delivery comes with the next commissary.
Magazines and paperback books must come straight from the publisher, and packages are returned at the sender’s expense.
Aransas County Inmate Mail: Common Questions
What address do I use for an Aransas County inmate?
Where should a lawyer send legal mail?
Is there a cap on incoming letters?
Paperbacks from Amazon or a bookstore: allowed?
Can I mail clothes or a box of snacks?
My relative has no money on the books. Is letter-writing still possible?
What address do I use for an Aransas County inmate?
Inmate Name, Inmate Number, then 308 N Live Oak St., Rockport, TX 78382-2745, as given on the jail's contact page.
Where should a lawyer send legal mail?
Phone Rockport staff at 361-790-0168 before mailing it. The county's contact page lists an address for inmate letters, yet it never says legal correspondence goes to the same place.
Is there a cap on incoming letters?
As many as people send. The county sets no cap on letters or pages.
Paperbacks from Amazon or a bookstore: allowed?
The written rule is publisher-direct only for magazines and paperbacks. A paperback or magazine mailed by family instead of the publisher does not meet that rule, so order it shipped straight from the publisher to the Rockport address.
Can I mail clothes or a box of snacks?
No. Aransas County returns mailed parcels, and you pay the return postage. Send goods through an [[Access Securepak]] order rather than the mail.
My relative has no money on the books. Is letter-writing still possible?
Yes. Indigent inmates are issued a weekly writing kit for personal mail, and postage for it is charged to their account later.
Emailing an Inmate
Electronic Messages
Written contact with Rockport prisoners goes by paper letter to 308 N Live Oak St., Rockport, TX 78382-2745, with the booking number under the name. Between letters, families talk with them on outgoing GettingOut calls; the detention line is 361-790-0168.