The Sheriff's booking search is a plain form with a few boxes. Try it this way:

1. Go to the jail booking search.
2. For a list of everyone on Stuart Street today, leave the boxes empty and hit Search.
3. For an older booking, type one date or a range of dates. Anyone in custody during that stretch shows up, even if they have since gone home.
4. If the list runs long, use the setting that caps the number of results.
5. Write down what the result shows before you phone the jail.

The county also runs a Jail Records search on its court records portal. It is a second place to look. Questions about a result go to Jail Information at 903-453-6849.

No match? Run through these possibilities:

• Still being processed. The Stuart Street staff take prints, a photo and forms before the name goes up. Look again tonight or tomorrow morning.
• Spelled differently. Search part of the surname, or a married or former name.
• Held by the city. Greenville police run a jail in their Police and Courts Building on Lee Street (number 3000). The department's line is 903-457-2900.
• Released already. Search a date range that includes the day of the arrest.
• Picked up in another county. Then that county's jail has them.

Still nothing? Jail Information at 903-453-6849 can check by name and birth date.

There is a single county lockup for adults: the Detention Center at 2801 Stuart St., Greenville, TX 75401. The Sheriff's Office shares that site. In its June 2022 report, the Texas Commission on Jail Standards put the jail's capacity at 345 beds. Jail Information answers at 903-453-6849, and the Sheriff's main line is 903-453-6800.

The City of Greenville runs a separate municipal jail in its Police and Courts Building. The department at 903-457-2900 can say if someone is held there.

Someone arrested over the line in a bordering county is booked into that county's own jail. Our pages for the eight bordering jails list each address and phone:

• Collin County Detention Facility
• Delta County Jail
• Fannin County Detention Center
• Hopkins County Jail
• Kaufman County Jail
• Rains County Jail
• Rockwall County Detention Center
• Van Zandt County Detention Center

A mugshot, meaning the booking photo, can be requested in writing from the Sheriff's Office, 2801 Stuart St., Greenville, TX 75401, 903-453-6800. Title your letter "Public Information Act request" and give the person's name and arrest date. The Act says basic arrest information may not be held back (Gov't Code 552.108(c)). An office that needs over ten business days must give you a date.

Watch out for private mugshot sites. Texas law covers sites that charge $150 or more for removal. If a record they post is wrong or incomplete, they have to fix it or take it down for free. They also may not post a record that a court expunged or sealed by nondisclosure (Bus. & Com. Code ch. 109).

Immigration photos need an ICE records request. Photos from federal arrests rarely go public, except when the Marshals are seeking a fugitive.

Sign up with Texas IVSS-Counties. This free Texas system tracks people in county jails. On the IVSS-Counties site, enter a first or last name, or part of one, and pick the right match. No account is required to register for notices. Alerts cover release, transfer and court event changes.

Signing up stays confidential; the inmate isn't told. Help by phone, in English or Spanish, is open 24/7 at 866-268-8959.

Within 48 hours, a magistrate holds a short hearing (Crim. Proc. Code 15.17). The person hears the charge and their rights, may ask for a court-appointed lawyer, and learns the bail. Bond can be cash, a surety bond from a bondsman on the local board's list, or a no-cash personal bond. Violent charges often rule out that last kind.

A paid bond can still leave someone inside if another county, a parole officer or ICE has a hold. Each step is on our bail page. To ask about a bond, call Jail Information at 903-453-6849.

Four ways to learn the charges:

• Ask the jail. Jail Information at 903-453-6849 can read the booking charges.
• Search court files. The county's Court Records Search shows filed cases.
• Use the state site. With a free account, re:SearchTX shows the charging papers once a case is filed.
• Call a clerk. Both are on the 2nd Floor at 2507 Lee Street, Greenville, TX 75401. Felonies: District Clerk, 903-408-4172. Class A and B misdemeanors: County Clerk, 903-408-4130.

At the first hearing, the magistrate states each charge as well.

A judge appoints one when the person can't pay. Ask at the magistrate hearing, where the forms are handed out and help is given. The District Clerk receives the paperwork. With fewer than 250,000 residents here, Crim. Proc. Code 1.051(c) allows three working days after the request.

The district court plan sets the bar at 125% of the federal poverty guidelines. People on SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, SSI or housing aid qualify too. Making bail doesn't count against them. If the charge is capital, the Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases may step in; reach it at 806-696-3740, or by mail at P.O. Box 2097, Lubbock, TX 79408.

Want an update? The District Clerk, 2507 Lee St., 2nd Floor, Greenville, TX 75401, answers at 903-408-4172. A family may also hire a private defense lawyer whenever it wants.

Visiting days are Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, and every visit must be booked ahead by phone at 903-453-6850:

• Call on Tuesday to book a Wednesday visit.
• Call on Thursday to book a Friday or Sunday visit.
• The line is answered from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. If nobody picks up, leave a message and expect a call back that day.
• Nobody answers after 4:00 p.m.
• Holiday weeks can change the schedule.

State standards guarantee each person at least two visits weekly. Each lasts no less than 20 minutes, and at least one falls on an evening or weekend. See our visitation page for more about visiting this jail.

Phone Jail Information at 903-453-6849 first. Find out the accepted ways to deposit, any fee, and which ID number to include. Do not put cash in an envelope.

See our inmate deposits page and commissary page for how the account is used.

Yes, but the setup belongs to the jail, so ask Jail Information at 903-453-6849 how calls are billed and whether messages or tablets are offered. By Texas rule, the booking area must have a phone that new arrivals can use (37 Tex. Admin. Code 259.119).

Talk through the facts of the case with the defense lawyer instead of on a jail phone. More is on our jail calls and messaging pages.

Ask Jail Information at 903-453-6849 for the right mailing address before you send anything. Also ask about photos, paper and books, and what ID number belongs on the envelope.

Texas sets the floor for mail. A person in jail may get letters in any number and length. Staff check attorney letters for contraband only, and do it with the recipient present (Texas Commission on Jail Standards, Rule 291.2). A jail may still refuse an item that breaks its rules. More on writing to someone held there is on our jail mail page.

On release day, ask staff for every item taken at booking, and look it over before you leave.

Anything the Sheriff's Office still holds after that, property or evidence, is released by appointment. Call 903-453-6849 to set one at 2801 Stuart St., Greenville, TX 75401. Bring a photo ID. Collecting items for another person? Ask staff ahead of time what signed permission they require.

Call Jail Information at 903-453-6849 right away. Share health conditions, allergies and medicines. Ask how to get medicine or medical records to the jail's health staff.

The jail must post its complaint process and put it in the inmate handbook (37 Tex. Admin. Code 251.6). When a complaint goes nowhere, the state jail board can step in. File through the Texas Commission on Jail Standards complaint page, call 512-463-5505, or email info@tcjs.state.tx.us. The board's P.O. Box 12985, Austin, TX 78711, takes paper complaints.

The Sheriff's Office, 2801 Stuart St., Greenville, TX 75401, 903-453-6800, serves warrants, along with four constable offices and city officers. Phone the deputies with a name, or ask the court that would have issued it. Commerce lists its city court's open warrants online. Texas's most-sought fugitives appear in DPS Texas 10 Most Wanted, with photos. A warrant is best handled with a lawyer at your side, who can line up a surrender or a bond with the issuing judge. On a felony, the District Clerk, 2507 Lee St., 2nd Floor, Greenville, TX 75401, 903-408-4172, can tell you which court has it.

Court calendars are online:

• County and district court dockets for misdemeanor and felony hearings.
• Justice court dockets for Class C cases.
• The county's Court Records Search for a full case history.

Can't find it? Ring the courthouse at 2507 Lee Street, Greenville, TX 75401, 903-408-4100, weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Our court page lists every courtroom and clerk.

Federal charges from this area are handled in the Dallas courthouse of the Northern District of Texas, 1100 Commerce Street, Room 1452, Dallas, TX 75242, 214-753-2200.

• A federal magistrate judge holds the detention hearing under 18 U.S.C. 3142.
• The U.S. Marshals Service controls custody before trial. Its Dallas office is at 1100 Commerce Street, Room 1657, Dallas, TX 75242, 214-767-0836. Call it to learn where someone is held.
• After sentencing, the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator finds people by name or register number.

Step by step, an ICE hold looks like this:

1. ICE sends the Stuart Street jail a Form I-247A detainer.
2. Once it arrives, the person can stay in custody up to 48 hours past their release time (8 CFR 287.7(d)). ICE uses that time to pick them up.
3. Texas jails are required to honor detainers, apart from people who prove lawful status (Crim. Proc. Code 2A.060). S.B. 4 (2017) blocks local governments from restricting enforcement. S.B. 8 (2025) tied every jail county to a December 1, 2026 date for requesting a 287(g) agreement. Ask the Sheriff's Office, 903-453-6800, about this county.
4. After ICE takes custody, try the ICE Online Detainee Locator. Have the A-number ready; if you lack it, the locator takes a name plus birth country.

Still lost? Call the ICE Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.

A prison sentence means a move from Stuart Street to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. At an intake unit, each new prisoner is checked and classified, then assigned to a unit that fits.

On the TDCJ inmate search, the surname must match exactly, plus a first initial. If you know the TDCJ or SID number, that is quicker. Only people now inside TDCJ appear. Records are updated only on working days and are at least a day old. Our Texas state prisons page has more.

Texas prosecutes anyone 17 or older as an adult, so a 17-year-old can land on Stuart Street. For a younger child, age 10 or more on the offense date, juvenile court hears the case (Fam. Code 51.02).

Police owe the parents prompt notice (Fam. Code 52.02). Within two working days, the juvenile judge holds a detention hearing, and a lawyer is appointed before it (Fam. Code 54.01). Juvenile Probation, at 2700 Johnson Street, Greenville, TX 75401, 903-455-8555, knows which detention center has the child and the hearing time.

Any of these agencies may book someone into the county jail. The jail or the arrest paperwork will name the one that acted.

Sheriff and constables

• Sheriff's Office (patrol and main line): 2801 Stuart St., Greenville, TX 75401, 903-453-6800
• Constable, Precinct 1: 2801 Stuart St., Greenville, TX 75401, 903-453-6891
• Constable, Precinct 2: 1106 Main Street, Commerce, TX 75428, 903-886-7937
• Constable, Precinct 3: 118 E. Main St., Wolfe City, TX 75496, 903-496-7974
• Constable, Precinct 4: 108 E. Main St., Quinlan, TX 75474, 903-356-4543

City police

• Greenville Police Department: Police and Courts Building, Lee Street at number 3000, 903-457-2900
• Commerce Police Department: 1103 Sycamore Street, Commerce, TX 75428, 903-886-1139
• Caddo Mills Police Department: 2313 Main Street, Caddo Mills, TX 75135, 903-527-3116 (city hall line)
• Royse City Police Department, for the part of Royse City inside this county: 1530 E. Hwy 66, Royse City, TX 75189, 972-636-9422
• Wolfe City Police Department and Celeste Police Department: for their numbers, ask the Sheriff's Office.

Other areas

• Quinlan, Lone Oak, West Tawakoni, Hawk Cove, Campbell, Neylandville, Union Valley and the local part of Josephine: call the Sheriff's Office first. Deputies can say which agency handled an arrest there.
• East Texas A&M University in Commerce has its own University Police Department.
• On state highways, the arresting officer may be a trooper from the Texas Department of Public Safety. Ask the Sheriff's Office if a trooper brought your person in.