1. Click the official jail search. You can also start at IVSS-Counties.
2. Type a surname into the IVSS search. Part of a long name works, but more matches come back.
3. IVSS pulls from many Texas counties. Make sure the match you pick lists this county.
4. Two matches, or none? Ring Pine Street at 325-728-5261 and ask Booking.

The office keeps weekday hours, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. When its non-emergency line fails, the office lists a backup: 480-822-2728.

Zero results has a handful of likely causes:

• Still in booking. Prints, photos and forms are being done, and the record isn't out yet.
• Already gone. A person freed on a bond drops off a custody search.
• Arrested by someone else. City police, a trooper or a federal agent may have picked the person up, and transfer papers may be in motion.
• Housed out of the area. The shared lawyer plan for Fisher, Mitchell and Nolan counties says tight local jail space may mean a stay outside the district.
• A typo. Try fewer letters, or another legal surname.

Pine Street's staff, at 325-728-5261, knows who was booked overnight and which jail has them today.

Inside the county, the Mitchell County Jail is where the Sheriff's Office keeps prisoners, 333 Pine Street, Colorado City, TX 79512, 325-728-5261. A June 2022 state count showed 99 beds and 60 people inside, 23 of them held for other agencies. Treat those numbers as dated.

TCJS, the state's jail inspector, listed this jail as out of compliance in October 2026. To raise a worry about conditions, use the TCJS complaint page or call 512-463-5505.

When beds run out, people may go to another county's jail. Call Pine Street to learn which. Jails close by include:

• Nolan County Detention Center, 211 Avenger Field Rd., Sweetwater, TX 79556, 325-235-5487
• Scurry County Jail, 400 37th St., Snyder, TX 79549, 325-573-3581
• Howard County Detention Center, 3611 W. Hwy 80, Big Spring, TX 79720, 432-264-2231

IVSS is a custody and alert tool, and nobody has confirmed it shows faces. To get mugshots, put a request in writing to Pine Street.

• Write out a Public Information Act request and mail or deliver it to Pine Street: Sheriff's Office, 333 Pine Street, Colorado City, TX 79512. Name the person and the arrest date.
• Gov't Code 552.108(c) makes "basic information" on an arrest public, to be given out promptly. Photos aren't named in that text, so the office may release one or ask the Attorney General to rule.
• No answer after ten business days? You may complain to the Attorney General's open records staff.

Commercial mugshot pages are covered by Texas law in Bus. & Com. Code ch. 109. Any that asks $150 or more to delete a record must fix a wrong or partial one free of charge. Sealed records, whether expunged or covered by nondisclosure, are off limits to them. ICE keeps its own pictures, so use its FOIA request form. Federal agencies hold back booking photos. Fugitive hunts are the exception, when a U.S. Marshals poster may carry one.

Sign up on the IVSS-Counties site, account or no account, or by phone at 866-268-8959. The phone line answers 24/7 in Spanish or English. It costs nothing, and the person you're tracking can't see who registered.

You'll hear about:

• bookings and releases;
• new or moved hearing dates;
• a transfer into TDCJ, an escape, or a death in custody.

Crime victims use the same service. The Governor's office took it over from the Attorney General on September 1, 2026.

CCP arts. 15.17 and 17.028 require a magistrate to see each arrested person inside 48 hours, read the rights and the accusation, and set bail. Texas offers three doors out. Paying cash means putting up every dollar. Going through a bondsman for a surety bond costs a fee instead. A personal bond is the third, which rests on a signature and a vow to return. A personal bond is off the table on some violent charges. Separate holds, like an ICE detainer or a parole warrant, can stop a release after bail is paid.

Pine Street, 325-728-5261, can give the amount and say where to post it. Our bond page for this county covers bondsmen, payments, refunds and asking for a lower bail.

At magistration the person hears the accusation, so they may know it already. Three offices can also help:

• Sheriff's Office, 325-728-5261: the charge written at booking.
• District Clerk, 349 Oak Street, Room 302, Colorado City, TX 79512, 325-728-5918: felony files.
• County Clerk, Room 103 in that courthouse, 325-728-3481: jailable misdemeanor files.

Search the County Clerk's public records too. The state's re:SearchTX shows court filings, such as charges and judgments, with a free sign-up. Keep in mind that the prosecutor can file a different charge than the one written at booking.

At magistration, each person is asked about wanting a free, court-appointed lawyer. A yes means filling out the "Application for Determination of Indigence and Request for Counsel," which jail staff, a clerk or the magistrate hands out.

• A judge gets the form inside 24 hours and rules inside three days.
• The 32nd District Court picks felony lawyers. County courts pick lawyers for misdemeanors.
• The appointed lawyer has to reach out to the client no later than the working day after the appointment.

Read the three-county appointment plan for details. Families may pay their own defense lawyer instead.

Before driving to Pine Street, phone 325-728-5261. Find out the schedule, the approval steps for visitors, the ID accepted, and if a video option exists. See our visitation page for more.

Texas sets a floor for county jails. Every person inside gets at least two visits through glass each week. Each lasts 20 minutes or more. So that working families can come, the jail must offer one of those slots on a weekend day or after dark. Children visiting may need an adult relative, guardian or attorney beside them. Veterans whose service is verified can get added visits on top of those two.

A jail account lets the person buy extras and pay for calls. For deposit methods and fees, ring the Sheriff's Office at 325-728-5261 on a weekday. Our money page and commissary page lay out how deposits commonly work. At release, ask how any leftover balance is paid out.

Texas design rules require a detainee phone where intake happens. That's often the source of the first call home. Later calls, and any texts or email, run through whatever system the jail uses.

To set up an account or ask about messages, call 325-728-5261. Our guides to jail phone accounts and jail messaging explain typical setups. Save case talk for the lawyer, never a jail line.

Write the envelope like this:

Person's full legal name
Mitchell County Jail
333 Pine Street
Colorado City, TX 79512

Before mailing, call 325-728-5261 to learn if the jail wants an ID number on the envelope and what can be enclosed, from pictures to books to cards. Letters can come and go in any amount under state rules. Legal mail is opened with the person standing right there. People with empty accounts still get enough paper and stamps to mail at least three letters a week. For envelope tips, read our mail page.

Personal items taken at booking are listed and held for release day. Items kept as evidence follow the case, not the person.

Picking up belongings for someone still locked up? Call 325-728-5261 and ask whether the person may sign a release to you, what ID is needed and when to come. If you're a crime victim and police kept your property as evidence, Texas lets you ask for its prompt return (CCP art. 56A.051).

Phone 325-728-5261 the same day you hear of a health problem. Tell staff the condition, each medicine and the prescribing doctor or pharmacy. Ask for a supervisor if you fear the word won't reach the right person.

• Booking staff who notice possible mental illness pass word to a magistrate fast. CCP art. 16.22 allows 12 hours.
• Each jail must explain its grievance steps in the handbook and on wall notices.
• Unsolved problems can go to TCJS by its online form, through info@tcjs.state.tx.us by email, or at 512-463-5505.

Sheriff's deputies carry warrants to every corner of the county, so start with Pine Street at 325-728-5261. The state's DPS Texas 10 Most Wanted page lists only top fugitives. A clerk can check whether a judge signed one. Felonies: District Clerk, 349 Oak Street, Room 302, Colorado City, TX 79512, 325-728-5918. Unpaid or missed tickets: justice court, 325-728-8906 or 325-728-5162. The safest fix is to hire or ask for a lawyer, have them talk to the court that signed the warrant, and then surrender on the day you agree.

A clerk can read off the coming setting. Felony: District Clerk, 325-728-5918. Misdemeanor: County Clerk, 325-728-3481. Both work at 349 Oak Street, Colorado City, TX 79512. A traffic or other Class C ticket names its own justice court.

IVSS alerts can flag new or moved hearings. re:SearchTX skips hearing times, so call to be sure. Our county court page walks through each court, the steps from magistrate to sentence, and the shared Sweetwater courts.

Federal judges in Abilene hear cases from this county for the Northern District of Texas. Clerk: U.S. Courthouse, 341 Pine Street, Room 2008, Abilene, TX 79601, 325-677-6311.

• Early on, under 18 U.S.C. 3142, a U.S. magistrate judge picks between home with conditions and a cell while the case goes on.
• Federal defendants answer to the Marshals until sentencing, and many sleep in county jails that contract for them. Call their Abilene office, Room 207 in that building, 325-672-2147, to learn which jail.
• Prison time means a federal prison. Then the BOP inmate locator searches by register number or by name.

1. An immigration officer lodges Form I-247A, an ICE detainer, at the jail.
2. With it, Pine Street may keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released, giving ICE time to collect them (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Once ICE collects them, the person may be taken to an immigration detention site, possibly out of state. Check the ICE Online Detainee Locator. ICE's Dallas Field Office handles North Texas: 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.

Texas adds more. Texas jails must comply with detainers, says CCP art. 2A.060. Someone who can document citizenship or legal presence is the one exception. Next, a 2017 law, Gov't Code 752.053, outlaws local rules that slow immigration enforcement. Last, a 2025 statute pushed sheriffs with jails toward 287(g) pacts with ICE, asking each to apply by December 1, 2026. Pine Street, 325-728-5261, can tell you the local status.

With a state sentence in hand, the person stays at Pine Street until TDCJ sends for them. TDCJ runs intake, then picks a unit that matches the sentence and the person's needs.

After that move, look on the TDCJ inmate search, using a TDCJ number if you have one. Addresses and visit rules for each unit are on our Texas prisons page.

Seventeen counts as adult in Texas, so a 17-year-old is booked at the county jail. Family Code 51.02 sends kids to juvenile court if the act took place between their 10th and 17th birthdays. Those kids don't go to Pine Street's adult cells.

The officer must quickly tell a parent and bring the child to a juvenile office or approved center, as Family Code 52.02 says. A held child's first hearing comes within two working days, and Family Code 54.01 puts a lawyer in place ahead of it. One juvenile board serves Fisher, Mitchell and Nolan counties. To learn where the child went, call the Sheriff's Office at 325-728-5261 or the District Clerk at 325-728-5918.

• Sheriff's Office: covers every part of the county, including places with no officers of their own. 333 Pine Street, Colorado City, TX 79512. Non-emergency: 325-728-5261.
• Colorado City Police Department: works inside city limits. Ask the Sheriff's Office for its non-emergency line.
• Loraine and Westbrook: the Sheriff's Office can say whether a local officer or a deputy made an arrest there.
• Texas Department of Public Safety: its Highway Patrol troopers cover state roads here too. For a trooper's arrest, Pine Street can point you to the right DPS office.

For emergencies, dial 911. Whatever agency made the arrest, Pine Street can tell you who has the person now.