The roster runs on a records vendor's site that the Sheriff links to. Here's how to work it:

1. Open the inmate listing.
2. Choose a tab. "Current Inmates" lists everyone held today. "24 Hours Arrests" shows fresh bookings. "Inmates by Arrest Date" lets you pick a day.
3. Narrow things down with the name filter.
4. Read the entry: status, sex, height, weight, arrest date, arresting agency and days spent in jail.
5. Check the charge lines. Every count has its own warrant number, statute, brief description, M or F letter and bond.

At the top, "Total bond" adds up every count. If it reads "NOT SET," no amount is in place yet. Home addresses are blanked out on purpose.

A name that won't come up usually points to one of four things:

• Booking is still underway. A name posts only after fingerprinting, a photo and forms. Check the 24-hour tab again in a while.
• They're out. Bond, a dropped case or a finished sentence takes a name off "Current Inmates."
• They were shipped elsewhere. A sheriff from a different county could be holding them on that county's warrant. Federal agents, ICE or TDCJ may have them too, and later answers here explain each.
• The spelling differs. Shorten the surname to its opening letters, and test any legal or maiden name.

When in doubt, phone the jail through the Sheriff's Office at 903-438-4040. For old bookings or written records, use the county's open records request page.

Locally there's only one adult lockup: the Hopkins County Jail, 298 Rosemont, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482, 903-438-4040. The state rates it for 192 beds. Besides local arrests, it houses contract and federal prisoners. On the roster you'll see holds for the U.S. Marshals and some immigration holds.

A warrant from a nearby county, or an arrest just across the line, can put someone in a neighbor's jail instead:

• Rains County Jail, 313 E. North Street, Emory, TX 75440, 903-473-3181.
• Wood County Detention Center, 402 South Stephens Street, Quitman, TX 75783, 903-763-2201.
• Franklin County Jail, 208 TX Hwy 37, Mount Vernon, TX 75457, 903-537-4539.
• Delta County Jail, 200 W. Bonham St, Cooper, TX 75432, 903-395-2146.
• Hunt County Detention Center, 2801 Stuart St., Greenville, TX 75401, 903-453-6849.

For many people, yes. The Current Inmates roster shows a booking photo beside some entries, while others read "image not available." For someone already released, or a missing photo, you'll likely need to ask.

• Asking the Sheriff. Send a written request through the county's open records page. Texas treats basic arrest facts as public (Public Information Act). If the Sheriff's staff need over ten business days, they have to give you a date.
• Photos taken by ICE. Those need a federal FOIA request, made on ICE's records page.
• Federal booking photos. Generally kept private. The Marshals may release a picture when they're hunting a fugitive.
• Websites selling removal. When a posted record is inaccurate or incomplete, Texas says the site must fix or remove it free. Expunged or nondisclosed records can't be posted at all, under chapter 109 of the state's business code.

It can. Register on Texas IVSS-Counties, the statewide system that took VINE's place. Search a whole name or just a piece. An account is optional. Nobody pays, and the prisoner is never told who signed up.

Messages come by phone or online, in English or Spanish. They cover a booking at Rosemont, a release, a court setting added or changed, and a move to TDCJ. Its 866-268-8959 line runs all day and night. Oversight passed to the Governor's office this fall. Once a prisoner lands with TDCJ, that agency's Victim Services Division sends notices instead, 800-848-4284.

Inside 48 hours, a magistrate sets the bail amount and conditions. You can see the result on the roster as each count's bond and the total. Three kinds of bond exist in Texas:

• Cash. Someone pays the whole amount, and it's refunded, minus any fees, after the case.
• Bondsman (surety). A licensed company signs for the full bond, and the fee it charges is kept.
• Personal bond. Release on a signature alone, with money due only after a missed court date. Certain violent charges never qualify.

Some people stay in after bond, for example on another county's warrant, a federal hold or an ICE detainer. Since November 2025, the state constitution lets judges deny bail for certain violent charges after a hearing. Our bail page explains each step and who to pay.

Every count on the roster comes with its statute and a letter. An M sends the case to the County Court at Law on Church Street. An F means a felony for the 8th or 62nd District Court. The Penal Code number lets you look up the crime in the Penal Code, where chapter 12 lists each level's punishment.

For the actual complaint or indictment, ask the District Clerk on a felony at 903-438-4081. On a misdemeanor, try the County Court at Law. Charges can change after arrest, so the paperwork filed later is what counts. You can also make a free account on re:SearchTX, the state's court-filing site.

Your person can hire any lawyer. Families often do this the same day. Short on cash? At the jail hearing, your person can ask for a court-paid lawyer. The magistrate helps them swear out an affidavit of indigence, a form about income and bills. The local plan picks lawyers from a rotation. One should be named within three working days (art. 26.04).

Didn't ask at magistration? Bring or mail the affidavit to the coordinator for the 8th District Court at 118 Church Street, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482, 903-438-4022. On a capital murder charge, a state-funded regional defender steps in. Read the county's appointment plan for every detail.

Phone 903-438-4040 first. Have the jail staff explain the visiting days, which photo ID works, and whether visits happen in the jail lobby or by video from home. State standards promise each prisoner two visits a week, through glass or on screen, of 20 minutes or longer. One of the pair should fit a work schedule, after hours or on a weekend.

Kids may visit a jailed mom or dad. Expect the jail to want their own parent, guardian or lawyer with them. A jailed veteran may also meet free with a veterans service officer, and those meetings come on top of family visits. For tips on dress and timing, read our visitation page.

The Sheriff's website links a jail-funds company, jailfunds.com, for deposits. Money there pays for snacks, hygiene items and other store orders. Before you send any, call 903-438-4040 to confirm the person's name as booked and any fees. See our money page for ways to deposit and our commissary page for what the store sells.

State rules put a phone in each Texas jail's intake room, so a person may ring family while being booked. Later calls run through the communications company the Sheriff's site links, ncic.com. There, families set up an account to take calls and, where offered, send messages. Ask whether calls are recorded and what each one costs.

Ask the jail at 903-438-4040 about tablet use and calling hours. Our phone page and messaging page walk through setting up an account.

Before you write, call 903-438-4040 and ask for the jail's exact mailing address. Some Texas jails send letters to a scanning center, not the building. Use the person's full name as the roster shows it.

State standards protect a lot. Prisoners may write anyone, as often and as long as they like, and get mail the same way. A lawyer's letter gets opened while the prisoner watches, just to check for anything hidden. Someone without funds receives free supplies and postage to mail three letters each week. See our mail page for common rules on cards, photos and packages.

Whatever a person carries in, from clothes to car keys, is written on an inventory and locked up at booking. Often the prisoner may sign a form letting a relative take some of it home. Call 903-438-4040 and ask which items can leave, what ID you need and the pickup hours. Anything seized as evidence won't be released.

On the way out, the person signs for their stored items. Before release day, ask the jail how a leftover commissary balance is refunded.

Call the jail right away at 903-438-4040. Give the person's name, the problem, any prescriptions and the doctor's name. Medical staff decide what treatment and medicine are given. Signs of mental illness at booking must be reported to the magistrate (art. 16.22).

If care seems poor, your person can use the jail's own complaint process, which must be posted inside. Families can reach the state jail commission (TCJS) through its complaints page or at 512-463-5505.

Deputies serve most warrants here, and the two precinct constables serve others. Call the Sheriff's Office at 903-438-4040 to ask about a name. Online, the county posts an Open Warrants page, and DPS posts its Most Wanted fugitives. Clearing one goes best with a lawyer beside you. Then walk in at Rosemont, or let the lawyer phone the judge's office that issued it about a hearing. Felony warrant records are with the District Clerk, 282 Rosemont Street, Suite 2, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482, 903-438-4081.

Felony settings for the 8th and 62nd District Courts appear on the district court dockets. Misdemeanors sit on the County Court at Law criminal docket. Fine-only tickets go to the two justice courts on Jefferson Street.

Settings shift, so call to confirm. Try the District Clerk at 903-438-4081 on a felony or the Church Street courthouse on a misdemeanor. Our court page lays out each court, address and step.

That person faces a U.S. charge, heard in Sherman Division court for Texas's Eastern District. The division clerk's office is at the Paul Brown United States Courthouse, 101 East Pecan Street, Room 216, Sherman, TX 75090, 903-892-2921. Whether they go home on conditions or stay locked up is settled early by a U.S. magistrate judge in Sherman or Plano (18 U.S.C. 3142).

The U.S. Marshals Service holds people before trial, and Rosemont keeps many of them. Look for a Marshals hold on the roster. The Sherman office is at 903-868-2379. A sentenced person heads to a Bureau of Prisons site, which the BOP locator names.

1. A detainer arrives at Rosemont on Form I-247A.
2. Once nothing in the Texas case holds them, the jail may keep them up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE takes custody at Rosemont and moves them to a federal holding site.
4. Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator by A-number and country of birth, or by name. You can also call the Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.

A Texas jail must carry out an ICE detainer. That changes if the person shows ID proving they're a citizen or lawfully here (art. 2A.060). Also, Texas wants a signed 287(g) pact between ICE and each county that runs a jail, due December 1, 2026.

A felony prison or state jail term means TDCJ eventually collects the person from Rosemont. Intake comes first: tests, interviews and a security rating. A permanent unit is chosen after that.

Try the TDCJ inmate search with the exact surname plus an initial, or with a TDCJ number or SID. Results include only people inside TDCJ right now. Updates happen on working days, so the newest info is about one day old. Our Texas state prisons section covers each unit.

Kids from 10 to 16 never go into the Rosemont adult cells. They're held in a youth detention center. At 17, Texans face charges as adults, so a 17-year-old does get booked and listed at Rosemont. For younger kids, police must reach a parent fast. If the child is kept, a lawyer gets assigned. By the second working day, the juvenile court rules on keeping the child or letting them go home.

Juvenile probation for the county is at 228 Hinnant, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482, 903-885-8041. Its officers can name the youth center holding your child and give you the court date.

Look at "arresting agency" on the roster entry. Most local arrests come from one of these:

• Sheriff's Office. Deputies patrol the rural county and run the jail, 298 Rosemont, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482, 903-438-4040.
• Sulphur Springs Police Department. City officers handle calls inside the city limits. For their number, ask the Sheriff's dispatch.
• Constables. Precinct 1 and Precinct 2 serve papers and warrants for the justice courts.
• Smaller towns. Como, Cumby and other small towns: dispatch at the Sheriff's Office knows who patrols there.
• Texas DPS troopers. DPS Highway Patrol covers the main roads through the county. For a traffic-stop arrest by DPS, the jail can say where the case went.