Use two tools, then a phone, in this order:

1. Open the jail lookup and try the last name alone. Spelling trips people up, so test a nickname and a maiden name as well.
2. Go to IVSS-Counties. A scrap of the name will do. Hits there cover anybody locked up or under supervision at this moment.
3. Still blank? Ring the detention center at 940-864-6200. The desk can look the person up by name plus birthday.
4. Think the person may be held for immigration? Go to the ICE Online Detainee Locator as well.

IVSS help is open all day, every day, at 866-268-8959.

Fresh bookings lag. Paperwork, fingerprints and photos take a while, so wait a bit and try once more. Then think about where else the person might be:

• Arrested across a county line. A deputy from Knox, Stonewall or another neighbor books people into their own jail, not this one.
• Back home already. Once bond is paid, or the magistrate grants a personal bond, the name falls off custody lists.
• Moved. Sentenced felons head to state prison. Federal and immigration cases follow their own path, covered further down.

The Sheriff's Office keeps the arrest reports. Reach it at 940-864-2345, in the courthouse at 1 Ave D, Haskell, TX 79521.

Only one lockup sits in the county. Rolling Plains Detention Center, 118 County Road 206, Haskell, TX 79521, phone 940-864-6200, is a private building with room for 548. Three groups live there side by side: local prisoners, contract inmates sent by other agencies, and people held for ICE.

When the arrest happened next door, look at that county's jail instead:

• Knox County Jail, 104 S. Stewart Street, Benjamin, TX 79505, 940-459-2041 (north).
• Stonewall County Jail, run by its Sheriff from the courthouse at 128 Town Square Ln, Aspermont, TX 79502, 940-989-3333 (west).
• Shackelford County Jail, 791 W. US Hwy 180, Albany, TX 76430, dispatch around the clock at 325-762-9555 (southeast).

Throckmorton, to the east, sends its prisoners out of county, so ask its officers where they book.

Folks hunting for mugshots usually want the booking photo. Ask for it in a letter to the Sheriff's Office, labeled a Public Information Act request. Phone 940-864-2345 first to learn where the letter should go.

• Under Gov't Code 552.108(c), core arrest details are open records that an agency should give out without delay. That statute does not list booking photos by name, though, so the office may ask the Attorney General before it answers.
• Past ten business days with no reply or ruling request, a complaint can go to the Attorney General's Open Records Division.
• Pictures of ICE detainees come only through an ICE records request. Booking shots taken on federal cases are withheld, though the Marshals sometimes share a fugitive's picture.

Private mugshot websites face Texas limits. Fixing or removing a record that is false or missing facts must cost you nothing. Nor may they publish anything a judge has ordered expunged or placed under nondisclosure (Bus. & Com. Code 109.004, 109.005).

Yes. IVSS-Counties sends free alerts by phone or online, and Spanish speakers can use it too. Sign-up works with an account or without one. Your registration stays hidden from the prisoner.

You'll hear about a booking, a release, an escape, a death, a move into state prison, or a hearing date being set or changed. Since September 1, 2026, the Office of the Governor manages the service. Register by phone at 866-268-8959 or on the IVSS-Counties site.

The first stop is a magistrate, under a 48-hour deadline. That official reads the accusation aloud, goes over the person's rights and picks a bail figure (CCP art. 15.17). The release may be a cash bond, a surety bond bought through a licensed bondsman, or a personal bond where the person signs a promise to return.

Paying bond doesn't always open the door right away. Under CCP art. 17.291(b), a family violence charge, for one, tacks four hours onto the stay after bond is filed. For bond types, who can't get a personal bond and where to pay, read our full release page. To ask about a bail amount, call the jail at 940-864-6200.

Ask the detention center first, since staff can read off each booked charge. After that, the paper file lives with a clerk, and which one depends on how serious the case is:

• Felonies: District Clerk, 940-864-2030.
• Class A and B misdemeanors: County Clerk, 940-864-2451.
• Class C cases, where only a fine is possible: Justice of the Peace, Room 8, 940-864-2903.

All three work out of the courthouse, 1 Ave D, Haskell, TX 79521. Statewide, the re:SearchTX system shows case numbers and the filed charge. Sign-up is free, though copies cost money.

Say "I need a lawyer" to the magistrate at that first hearing and fill out the request form. Staff must help with it. Requests then go to a judge:

• Felony: the 39th District Judge, 940-864-2661.
• Misdemeanor: the County Judge, 940-864-2851.

Expect counsel to be assigned before three working days have passed. Cases where death is a possible sentence are sent to a Lubbock office built for them, reachable at 806-696-3740 or P.O. Box 2097, Lubbock, TX 79408. It goes by the name Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases. The rules sit in the indigent defense plan. Families who prefer their own pick may retain an attorney privately.

ICE posts a schedule for its detainees. Every social visit there is behind glass, with no contact, and visitors get searched.

• Weekends, men: 7:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.
• Weekends, women: 3 to 7 p.m. for low and medium-low classes; 3 to 5 p.m. for medium-high and high.
• Weekdays, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., only after a request to the Warden.

Each visit lasts one hour. Up to two adults and two kids may come. Show up 45 minutes ahead with government photo ID, and kids need a guardian age 18 or older.

Visiting someone jailed on a county case? Call 940-864-6200 for their schedule. Statewide jail standards promise every prisoner a pair of weekly visits, twenty minutes minimum apiece, with one of the pair landing at night or on a weekend day. Our visiting page has more.

For ICE detainees, deposits run through the facility's tablet system, and ICE's page for Rolling Plains points to the vendor's website for the steps. For anyone else in the building, call 940-864-6200 and ask which deposit methods take effect fastest.

Funds usually pay for snacks, hygiene items and calls. Read about putting money on a jail account and about the jail store.

ICE says detainees trade regular messages on facility tablets. Those messages are not private. If something urgent happens at home, a funeral or a hospital stay, phone the facility at 940-864-6200 and ask staff to pass the word.

A person held on a county charge may have other options, so ask on that same call. Learn more about inmate calls and jail messaging.

Address each letter like this:

Rolling Plains Regional Jail and Detention Center
[Full name of the person]
118 County Road 206
Haskell, TX 79521

• Put the sender's name and a street or box address in the top corner.
• Writing to an ICE detainee? Include the A-number's last four digits.
• Don't mail a package until the Facility Warden says yes.

State rules set no cap on how many letters a prisoner may send or get. A lawyer's letter gets opened only while its owner looks on. See our jail mail page for extra pointers.

Clothes, a wallet and a phone get boxed up at booking. At release, most people walk out with their own things. If you must collect them instead, ring 940-864-6200 before driving out. Ask about pickup hours, what ID to bring, and whether written permission from the prisoner is needed.

Call the facility at 940-864-6200, give the person's name and explain the health worry plainly. For an ICE detainee, the ICE line at 214-905-5829 takes calls Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Under state standards, each lockup has to hand inmates its grievance steps in writing. If that goes nowhere, turn to the state's jail regulators through their complaint form or at 512-463-5505. Naming the jail and the inmate helps.

Sheriff's deputies handle most warrant arrests here. The constable works out of the same courthouse, and its calls also go to the Sheriff at 940-864-2345. For fugitives sought across Texas, browse the DPS Texas 10 Most Wanted page.

Checking a name takes a phone call to the Sheriff, or to the clerk over that type of case. For Class C tickets, try the Justice of the Peace office at 940-864-2903. Felony files sit with the District Clerk, 1 Ave D, Haskell, TX 79521, 940-864-2030.

To clear a warrant, phone the court that signed it, or turn yourself in alongside a lawyer. Any Texas officer can make the arrest in any county (CCP art. 15.06), so waiting rarely helps.

Hearings take place at the courthouse, 1 Ave D, Haskell, TX 79521. A clerk sets each date:

• Felony settings: District Clerk, 940-864-2030.
• Misdemeanor settings: County Clerk, 940-864-2451.

The statewide records site often shows the case number but not the hearing date, so a call wins. Have a case number ready if you can. Our court process page walks through each hearing.

U.S. prosecutions from these parts are heard in Abilene, at the Northern District of Texas courthouse, 341 Pine Street, Room 2008, Abilene, TX 79601. Clerk: 325-677-6311.

• At a detention hearing, the court weighs whether the defendant goes home under conditions before trial or stays locked up (18 U.S.C. 3142).
• While a case is pending, the Marshals keep custody of the defendant, often in a local jail under contract. Their Abilene office is at 341 Pine Street, Room 207, Abilene, TX 79601, 325-672-2147.
• Can't pay a lawyer? The Federal Public Defender office in Lubbock sits at 1205 Texas Avenue, Room 507, Lubbock, TX 79401, 806-472-7236.
• Following sentencing, look the person up in the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

Rolling Plains doubles as a detention center for ICE, under the agency's Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200. A person held on a local charge can end up in ICE hands in the same building. Here is the usual order:

1. Paperwork comes first: Form I-247A, by which ICE asks the jail to keep custody a little longer.
2. Jail staff can then hold the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released, which gives ICE time to collect them (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Once ICE takes over, the person may stay at Rolling Plains or move to another site.
4. Track them on the ICE Online Detainee Locator, or call the detainee line at 214-905-5829, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Under Gov't Code 752.053, no Texas sheriff, city council or commissioners court may write a policy that slows federal immigration work.

State jail felonies are punished with time in a state jail facility. Higher-grade felonies mean a TDCJ prison term (TDCJ stands for Texas Department of Criminal Justice). Before that, the person waits at Rolling Plains for transfer, gets sorted at an intake unit, and then gets assigned a unit.

When the transfer is done, the TDCJ inmate search should find them. Only people now inside a prison unit appear there. Updates come on working days, and every entry trails by a day or more, so be patient. For background on the system, see our Texas prisons page.

Kids from 10 through 16 belong in juvenile court. Texas law counts a 17-year-old as grown, so someone that age faces adult charges (FC 51.02).

• Police owe a parent or guardian a quick heads-up (FC 52.02). During processing, the child may keep a parent or an attorney close by (FC 52.025).
• The four-county juvenile plan caps time in that office at six hours.
• Detention hearings happen fast (FC 54.01): within two working days, or just one after a Friday or Saturday detention. Appointed counsel is in place by then.

The closest state-registered detention center is the Taylor County Juvenile Justice Center, 889 South 25th Street, Abilene, TX 79602, 325-691-7462. To confirm where a child from here is held, ask the county Probation Office at 940-864-8910.

Most likely the Sheriff's Office, which patrols the whole county from the courthouse at 1 Ave D, Haskell, TX 79521. Its line is 940-864-2345.

• Constable: office at the same courthouse; calls route through the Sheriff.
• Towns: Haskell, Rule, Rochester, O'Brien and Weinert. For an arrest inside one of them, call the Sheriff to learn which officer made it.
• State troopers: Texas DPS works the highways. Ask the Sheriff's dispatcher how to reach the trooper on the case.

Not sure where a town arrest was booked? The detention center can confirm it at 940-864-6200.