Navarro County Detention Center Inmate Bail & Bonds

A magistrate, not the arresting officer, fixes bail in Texas. Navarro's written plan for appointed counsel promises each arrested adult a magistrate hearing inside 48 hours. State law lets that hearing happen in the same room or by video (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 15.17(a)). Expect a short hearing. On the magistrate's list:

• read out the charge plus warnings about silence, counsel and an examining trial;
• check whether the person needs a sign or language interpreter;
• collect any request for a free lawyer, then either appoint one or forward the papers to Navarro's Indigent Defense Coordinator within 24 hours;
• fix the bond and its conditions, if the judge who signed the warrant left that open.

When the most serious count is a Class B misdemeanor or higher, Texas has the magistrate study a public safety report listing old cases, with no risk score in it (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.022). Texas wants the bond choice made person by person within those first 48 hours (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.028). Dial the Sheriff's 24-hour number, 903-654-3001, to learn when magistration is likely.

Texas law has two broad kinds of release paper. A bail bond leans on cash or on a surety company. A personal bond leans on nothing but the defendant's signed word (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.01). Navarro's Sheriff names five routes out of the 2nd Avenue jail:

• Own recognizance. A personal bond where nothing gets paid at the start.
• Cash bond. The court takes the entire bail amount in cash from whoever posts it, and that money is repaid after the bond's terms are met.
• Private bonding company. A licensed surety signs for the full sum and keeps its fee.
• Property bond. Real estate or other assets stand behind the promise.
• Pre-Trial Release Program. Ask jail staff whether your person can be screened for it.

Statewide details that don't fit here live on our Texas bail laws page, which is worth a look. Magistrates are told to choose the lightest conditions able to protect the public while still getting the accused back for hearings (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.028). Some offenses bar a personal bond, for example the violent offenses on the statute's list, a felon caught with a firearm, and several protective-order violations (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.03).

Texas never adopted one statewide bond chart, so each Navarro magistrate sizes bail case by case. Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.15(a) wants a dollar figure that gives the defendant a real reason to return, while stopping short of oppression. Other things on the scale:

• what the accusation is and the facts around it;
• the family's real budget;
• whether the alleged victim, deputies or the public would be at risk;
• records listed in the safety report;
• citizenship.

Statute sets only a few dollar caps. One cap protects people jailed without a warrant. When a magistrate is too slow to rule on probable cause, the jail must free them on a bond no larger than $5,000 for a misdemeanor or $10,000 for a felony (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.033). Completed Texas bail forms can be browsed through the TOPICs bail portal. For the real figure tied to each count, staff at 903-654-3002 can help.

The Detention Center's business office at 312 W. 2nd Ave., Corsicana, TX 75110 keeps weekday hours, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Jailers taking bail must run a records check first, and no jailer may price bail on a violent offense (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.22). Here is a tidy order of steps:

1. Ring the jail line, 903-654-3002, or at night the Sheriff's 24-hour line, 903-654-3001.
2. Keep the legal name, birthday and booking number in front of you.
3. Write down each charge's bond and the court that handles it.
4. Confirm how they take payment and the payee to write on money orders.
5. Check for a family violence hold or a detainer.
6. Carry a government photo ID, and keep every slip of paper they hand you.

Each new arrival gets three free local calls, and many spend one asking relatives to gather bond money.

Navarro splits the paperwork by charge level. Felony papers go to the District Clerk, while misdemeanor papers of Class A or B go to the County Clerk. You'll find both clerks inside the 3rd Avenue courthouse. Phone first and ask whether that clerk will accept your bond at the counter or want it done at the jail.

• District Clerk, 300 W. 3rd Avenue, Suite 201, Corsicana, TX 75110, 903-654-3040, weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Postal mail: P.O. Box 1439, Corsicana, TX 75151.
• County Clerk's Criminal Department, first floor, 300 W. 3rd Avenue, Suite 101, Corsicana, TX 75110, 903-654-3035. Hours run 8:00 a.m. to noon, then 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. Its duties include bond forfeiture paperwork for the County Court.

Fine-only tickets belong to Navarro's four justice courts at 312 W. 2nd Avenue, Corsicana, TX 75110. On those, a personal bond tends to be the default (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 45A.107).

Payment rules change now and then, so phone the jail at 903-654-3002 on the day you plan to pay. Ask about any card fee and note the staff member's name.

• A cash bond means paying every dollar. Guard the receipt, because Texas refunds cash bail in that name.
• Using a bonding company costs a premium that stays with the company.
• An attorney already hired on that case may post the bond (Texas Occupations Code Sec. 1704.163).
• Navarro's justice court page links online payment for traffic tickets and fines. That link handles fines, not jail bonds.

Mailing cash is never safe.

Under Texas Occupations Code Sec. 1704.002, a bail bond board becomes required at a population of 110,000; a county below that line may still choose to create one. Absent a board, Texas lets the sheriff display a roster of sureties judged financially sound (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.141). Ask Navarro jail staff at 903-654-3002 which companies they accept.

• No Texas law caps the premium, so compare a few quotes.
• Demand a written receipt for cash, titles or other items (Texas Occupations Code Sec. 1704.305).
• Drumming up clients inside a jail breaks state law (Texas Occupations Code Sec. 1704.304).
• After every case closes, write to the bondsman asking for your pledged title or other item. The law gives them 30 days to hand it over (Texas Occupations Code Sec. 1704.301).
• A bondsman who wants out of a bond must first let the client's attorney know, then hand the court an affidavit giving its reasons (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.19).

Each bond answers for one case alone. Ask Navarro jail staff at 903-654-3002 to look for these before money changes hands:

• Family violence wait. A 4-hour hold follows bond whenever the magistrate finds more violence likely; by written order the hold may run as long as 48 hours (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.291(b)).
• Warrant from another county. A Navarro magistrate may set bail on it, then mail that bond to the warrant's home county (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 15.18).
• Parole warrant. A parolee on a "blue warrant" remains jailed until the violation hearing (Texas Gov't Code Sec. 508.254(c)).
• Immigration detainer. Staff at the 2nd Avenue jail must honor it, unless someone produces proof of lawful status (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 2A.060).
• Other charges. Every separate case carries its own bond.

Bond conditions may also be attached. Repeat DWI arrests, for one, bring a required ignition interlock (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.441).

Under the Texas Constitution, almost any charge can be bailed, though a capital case with evident proof is the big exception (Texas Constitution, Article I, Section 11). Separately, a district judge can deny bail after a hearing in a few further felony settings, like a new felony committed while out on an indicted one (Section 11a). Breaking a safety condition (Section 11b) or a family violence order (Section 11c) can end bail as well.

Section 11d is newer. Texas voters added it through Proposition 3 in November 2025. It covers indecency with a child, trafficking, aggravated kidnapping, murder, aggravated robbery, capital murder and aggravated sexual assault, along with some aggravated assaults. For those charges, the amendment's wording is that bail "shall be denied" whenever prosecutors carry one of two burdens at a hearing:

• the person will likely skip court, where a preponderance of the evidence is enough; or
• letting the person out would threaten the victim, officers or the public, a point needing clear and convincing proof.

The defense can't start this hearing; only the state can. If bail is granted in spite of all that, the order has to spell out the judge's reasons in writing. Navarro's District Attorney's Office sits at 300 W. 3rd Avenue, Suite 301, Corsicana, TX 75110, 903-654-3045.

Normally the defense attorney writes a motion and asks the judge for a cut. Because the law makes ability to pay a required factor (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.15(a)), collect wage slips, rent papers and anything showing family nearby.

Slow prosecutions help too. Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.151 rewards a defendant when the state lags: past these deadlines without trial readiness, the court has to either shrink the dollar figure or free the person on their signature.

• Felony: the state gets 90 days.
• Class A: the state gets 30 days.
• Class B: the state gets 15 days.
• Fine-only Class C: the state gets 5 days.

S.B. 9 (2025) gave prosecutors their own route to bring felony bail before a district judge for review (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.029). For your side, file felony motions at the District Clerk's counter, 903-654-3040. On a misdemeanor, the County Court at Law's coordinator answers at 903-875-3322.

At magistration, the accused hears how appointed counsel works, and staff help with the forms. Navarro's Indigent Defense Coordinator processes those requests at 300 W. 3rd Ave., Suite 202B, Corsicana, TX 75110, 903-875-3933, open weekdays 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

• Navarro's plan sets a deadline for naming counsel, counting three working days from the request's arrival (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 1.051(c)).
• Next, by quitting time on the following workday, the attorney owes the jailed client a real attempt at contact (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 26.04(j)).
• Posting bond, or having the means to, can't by itself disqualify someone (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 26.04(m)).
• Navarro posts the affidavit of indigence and its full plan on its indigent defense page.

The Texas Indigent Defense Commission reviews each county plan from 209 West 14th Street, Room 202, Austin, TX 78701, 512-936-6994.

Felony and misdemeanor judges share the 3rd Avenue courthouse, while the justice courts work out of the jail building.

• 13th District Court, felonies only, 300 W. 3rd Avenue, Corsicana, TX 75110, 903-654-3020.
• County Court at Law, misdemeanors of Class A or B, 300 W. 3rd Avenue, Suite 103, Corsicana, TX 75110, 903-875-3322. The constitutional County Court shares some misdemeanor work and is reached through the main county switchboard, 903-654-3000.
• Justices of the Peace, Class C, all four precincts at 312 W. 2nd Avenue, Corsicana, TX 75110. Precinct phones: one, 903-654-3055; two, 903-654-3058; three, 903-654-3063; four, 903-654-3060.
• Federal court in Dallas, 1100 Commerce Street, Room 1452, Dallas, TX 75242, 214-753-2200.

A citation from a city officer lands in that city's municipal court. The County Clerk's office, 903-654-3035, knows which town court has it.

When every bond term is satisfied, Texas returns cash bail to the name printed on the receipt (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.02). Possible deductions:

• a clerk's charge of 5%, capped at $50, allowed only after a conviction or deferred adjudication (Texas Local Gov't Code Sec. 117.055);
• outstanding fines, fees and court costs, which the deposit may pay (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 17.53).

A free form for releasing the deposit can be picked up at the clerk's window after final disposition. Skipping a court date, though, brings a judgment nisi against the bond (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 22.02). The surety owes nothing more, apart from costs, if police jail the defendant again before 180 days pass on a misdemeanor bond, or 270 on a felony bond (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 22.13). Knowingly missing court is its own crime, graded by the original charge (Texas Penal Code Sec. 38.10).

For refund questions, call whichever clerk took the deposit: Navarro's District Clerk, 903-654-3040, on felonies, or the County Clerk, 903-654-3035, on misdemeanors.

People inside may not keep cash, so their funds sit in an Inmate Trust Fund account. At booking, staff inventory and store each person's things, and the inmate names a dependable person to collect them. That person brings photo ID to 312 W. 2nd Ave., Corsicana, TX 75110.

• Property can leave the holding area at any hour.
• Once someone moves into general housing, items go out only after sentencing or when they will secure the release.
• Commissary bought before release waits 72 hours, and no store refunds follow release.

For how a leftover trust balance gets paid out, phone 903-654-3002. Our inmate money guide and commissary guide add more detail.

Federal charges from Navarro land in Dallas, in the federal court's Dallas Division for North Texas. Clerk's office: Earle Cabell federal courthouse, 1100 Commerce Street, Room 1452, Dallas, TX 75242, 214-753-2200.

• At a hearing, often begun at the first appearance, a federal judge chooses between release on conditions and detention (18 U.S.C. 3142).
• Before trial the Marshals hold the defendant, possibly in a county jail under contract. Its Dallas office: 1100 Commerce Street, Room 1657, Dallas, TX 75242, 214-767-0836.
• Defendants unable to pay may be assigned the Federal Public Defender, whose main office for the district is at 525 South Griffin Street, Suite 629, Dallas, TX 75202, 214-767-2746.
• After a federal sentence, check the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

An immigration detainer survives a paid Texas bond. Here's the sequence most families see:

1. ICE sends Navarro's jail a Form I-247A.
2. Jailers can then hold the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Texas law makes the jail comply with the detainer. Still, the hold ends for anyone able to document U.S. citizenship or lawful status (Texas Crim. Proc. Code art. 2A.060). A separate 2017 law says no sheriff's office or city in Texas may set a policy restricting how immigration law is enforced (Texas Gov't Code Sec. 752.053).
4. Navarro's Sheriff, like every county jail operator, has until December 1, 2026 to enroll in the 287(g) partnership with ICE, a 2025 requirement from S.B. 8. Navarro's Sheriff's Office, 903-654-3001, can say where its agreement stands.
5. Officers from ICE's Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200, collect the person.
6. Track them on the ICE Online Detainee Locator. Searching by A-number works best, though a full name with country of birth also works.

Prison sentences hand the person over to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Many sit in Navarro's jail for some weeks after sentencing. Later, TDCJ moves them to an intake unit for classification, which decides their longer-term unit. Someone convicted of a state jail felony instead does that time in a state jail unit (Texas Penal Code Sec. 12.35).

• Collect stored property beforehand, since the Detention Center releases it ahead of any move to TDCJ or a state jail.
• Search the TDCJ inmate lookup. Expect its records to lag at least 24 hours, with updates only on workdays.
• Our Texas state prisons page walks through mail and visiting at each TDCJ unit.

Texas juvenile court hears conduct by kids aged 10 to 16, and anyone 17 is charged as an adult (Texas Family Code Sec. 51.02(2)). Children aren't booked into the adult jail on West 2nd Avenue or bonded out the adult way.

• Under Texas Family Code Sec. 52.02, officers owe the parent or guardian a quick call with the reason for custody.
• Detention hearings happen fast under Texas Family Code Sec. 54.01: within two working days of custody, though a Friday or Saturday pickup shrinks that to one.
• Appointed counsel stands beside the child by the time that hearing opens.

Navarro's Juvenile Probation Office, 315 W. 3rd Ave., Corsicana, TX 75110, 903-654-3070, knows where a detained child is housed and when court is set.