The Sheriff's site points to a single lookup titled "Inmate Listing." To work it:

1. Click through to the Inmate Listing.
2. Type a surname into Starting Inmate Name, or leave that box empty for every entry.
3. Know about when they were picked up? Enter a Beginning Date. Leaving Ending Book-In Date empty keeps all later dates in.
4. Submit, then look down the results for the right full name and book-in date.

Results can be brief. Charge, bond and release details come quickest from Booking at 903-427-3838.

Common reasons a name won't come up:

• Booking isn't finished. Prints, a photo and intake forms come first, and a same-day arrest can trail behind.
• Released already. After a bond is posted or signed, the person may have walked out of Cedar Street.
• Held by someone else. A trooper, a neighboring sheriff or federal agents may have them in a different lockup, listed in the next answer.
• Typo trouble. Shorten the surname you typed, or try a maiden or hyphenated version.

Out of ideas? Ring the Sheriff's Office, 500 N. Cedar Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3838, and have a birth date handy along with the full name.

County prisoners stay in one building, the Red River County Jail, 500 N. Cedar Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3838. A June 2022 report from the state's jail standards commission listed room for 95. On that date, 17 of the people inside were contract holds for other agencies.

Picked up across the county line? Then a neighbor's jail may hold them:

• Lamar County Jail, 125 Brown Ave., Paris, TX 75460, 903-737-2400.
• Bowie County Correctional Facility, 105 West Front Street, Texarkana, TX 75501, 903-798-3149. The state's jail list marks it as privately run.
• Titus County Jail, 304 South Van Buren, Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455, 903-577-7200.
• Delta County Jail, 200 W Bonham Street, Cooper, TX 75432, 903-395-2146.
• Franklin County Jail, 208 TX Hwy 37, Mt Vernon, TX 75457, 903-537-4539.
• Morris County Jail, 502 Union Street, Daingerfield, TX 75638, 903-645-2232.

No idea who arrested them? Cedar Street dispatch can sort it out.

Mugshots may or may not appear on the Inmate Listing, so a written request is the dependable route. Ways to get or deal with one:

• Write to the Sheriff. Texas's open-records law treats basic arrest details as public (Government Code 552.108(c)). Mail or hand-deliver a booking-photo request to the Sheriff's Office, 500 N. Cedar Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3838. Expect a prompt reply. If more than 10 business days are needed, the office must give a release date.
• Commercial mugshot pages. Sites asking $150 or more to pull a record fall under Business and Commerce Code ch. 109. Mistakes in a listing, or missing facts, must be fixed or the listing deleted, free of charge. Expunction or nondisclosure? Then the site can't show the record at all. Fees for removing accurate records aren't outlawed.
• ICE's own photos require an ICE FOIA request.
• Federal photos: the government generally withholds booking pictures, but the U.S. Marshals Service can make an exception for a fugitive it's chasing.

Texas offers IVSS-Counties for this. It's free and confidential, takes sign-ups online or at 866-268-8959 around the clock, and works in English and Spanish. Once you register a name, it notifies you of custody changes such as release or transfer.

The Sheriff's website hasn't caught up: its alert link leads to the statewide service that IVSS-Counties replaced in 2025. Enroll with IVSS-Counties instead.

Between alerts, a daily glance at the Inmate Listing helps, and the jail at 903-427-3838 can verify a release.

A magistrate meets every jailed person within two days of arrest. That hearing covers the accusation and rights, the lawyer request and the bail decision (Code of Criminal Procedure art. 15.17; art. 17.028). Three common ways out:

• Cash: the whole bail amount, paid in full.
• Surety: a licensed bondsman guarantees the bail to the court, charging a fee to whoever hires the bondsman.
• Personal bond: freedom on a signed promise to show up, without paying anything first. That option is off-limits for certain violent charges (art. 17.03).

Holds, such as an outside county's warrant or an ICE detainer, may keep a person inside even after bail. For the full picture, read our Red River bail page. The jail, 903-427-3838, can give the amount set.

Three ways to pin it down:

1. Ask Booking at 903-427-3838 for the booking offense and bond amount.
2. After filing, the clerk has it. The District Clerk, 400 N. Walnut Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3761, keeps felonies. The County Clerk, 200 N. Walnut Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-2401, keeps Class A and B.
3. Open a no-cost re:SearchTX account to see filed charging documents. You'll find charges and judgments there, though not hearing times.

The filed charge can differ from the booking charge, so check again closer to court.

Someone too broke for a lawyer can tell the magistrate and fill out a request. With no public defender office in Red River, the judges assign private attorneys. Since the county's population is far below 250,000, the judge must appoint someone no later than working day three after receiving it (art. 1.051). After appointment, art. 26.04 expects the attorney to reach out to the client within a working day.

Hiring a lawyer privately is always an option. Austin's Texas Indigent Defense Commission, 209 West 14th Street, Room 202, Austin, TX 78701, 512-936-6994, keeps the county's appointment plan, viewable on TIDC's plan site.

Phone the jail, 903-427-3838, before heading over. Ask about visiting days, hours, dress and behavior rules, and which ID works. Texas sets a weekly minimum for jail visits: two noncontact visits, each lasting no less than 20 minutes, with one scheduled on an evening or weekend (Government Code 511.009). Video visiting is used in some jails, and some have an exemption from in-person visits.

Our jail visitation page offers general tips.

Funds on a jail account cover commissary buys such as snacks, stamps and soap. How you deposit, and how much, is set by each jail, so ask Cedar Street at 903-427-3838.

Walk-throughs are on our money deposit page, while ordering is covered on our commissary page.

Calls and messages run however the jail sets them up. Call 903-427-3838 to ask how outgoing calls work, which company carries them and whether tablets or messaging exist. Calls other than with a lawyer may be recorded, so discuss the case only with the attorney.

Common setups are explained on our inmate calls page and inmate email page.

Under state jail standards, incoming letters have no numeric limit, and Cedar Street staff may open an attorney's letter only while the inmate looks on. The Sheriff's Office sits at 500 N. Cedar Street, Clarksville, TX 75426. Before writing, confirm with the jail at 903-427-3838 that letters go to that address, and ask which items are allowed.

Address each envelope with the inmate's complete legal name, and add your return address. More on letters: our jail mail page.

Things taken at booking, say a wallet, keys or a cellphone, are stored by the jail until release. For a relative to pick them up sooner, call 903-427-3838. Ask about written permission from the inmate, ID and pickup times. Bringing court or release clothes is a separate question for Booking.

Let the jail know at once about prescriptions, allergies, pregnancy or any condition. Call 903-427-3838, ask for the shift supervisor, and keep the person's doctor and pharmacy names handy.

Still no response? Complain to TCJS, the state jail standards commission, through its complaints page, at 512-463-5505, or by email (info@tcjs.state.tx.us).

Deputies from the Sheriff's Office, 500 N. Cedar Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3838, handle most warrant service in the county. Its lone constable works from the courthouse, 400 N. Walnut Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, using the same dispatch number. Check a name by calling dispatch, or call whichever court would issue it. That's the District Clerk, 400 N. Walnut Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3761, for felonies, or the justice court, 500 N. Cedar Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3322, for Class C. DPS's Texas 10 Most Wanted roundup covers the state's top fugitives.

Counsel can help resolve a warrant, either by setting up a walk-in at Cedar Street or by asking whichever judge issued it to set a new date.

Each clerk tracks hearing dates for its own files:

• For a felony: District Clerk, 400 N. Walnut Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3761, open Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to noon.
• Class A and B: County Clerk, annex building, 200 N. Walnut Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-2401.
• Class C: justice court, 500 N. Cedar Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3322.

re:SearchTX leaves out hearing times, so phoning the clerk beats guessing. Our court process page tracks a case from magistrate to verdict.

Federal charges here are handled in Texarkana, in the Eastern District of Texas, where the clerk works from the federal courthouse at 500 North State Line Avenue, Room 301, Texarkana, TX 75501, 903-794-8561. At that first appearance, expect a detention hearing on custody versus release until trial (18 U.S.C. 3142).

Before sentencing, the Marshals Service has custody, and it may board the person in a rented county jail bed. Call the Texarkana Marshals line at 903-793-8782, or the Marshals' main Tyler office, 211 West Ferguson Street, 4th Floor, Tyler, TX 75702, 903-590-1370. After sentencing, check the federal BOP inmate locator, which names their prison.

1. Paperwork first: the jail on Cedar Street receives ICE's Form I-247A.
2. The jail can keep that person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)) while ICE arranges pickup.
3. Texas jails must honor detainers. The hold ends for anyone whose papers establish U.S. citizenship or legal presence (art. 2A.060).
4. Local governments here can't limit immigration enforcement. That rule dates to 2017 (Government Code 752.053).
5. Under SB 8 (2025), sheriffs with jails, including this one, need a 287(g) request on file with ICE by December 1, 2026.
6. After ICE takes over, the person is moved to an immigration detention center. The ICE Online Detainee Locator tells you which.
7. For questions, contact ICE's Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.

Sentences to prison or state jail send the person from Cedar Street to TDCJ eventually. Intake comes first, with assessments, and then assignment to a unit matching their needs and security level.

• Search the TDCJ inmate search with a name, TDCJ number or SID. Only people currently in TDCJ show, so anyone still awaiting transfer won't.
• Our Texas state prisons listing has unit details.

Under Texas law, someone 10 to 16 at the offense is a child for court purposes. At 17, adult rules apply, including booking into the county jail (Family Code 51.02). Once in custody, a child goes without delay to a medical facility, a designated juvenile detention center, or a juvenile processing office. Parents must be told promptly, with the reason (Family Code 52.02).

• Timing: a held child's first hearing comes by working day two. For Friday and Saturday pickups, the hearing moves up to working day one. Counsel is named before it happens (Family Code 54.01).
• Parents can call Juvenile Probation, 301 W. Madison Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-5761, to learn the child's detention center and hearing date.

County patrol and dispatch belong to the Sheriff's Office, 500 N. Cedar Street, Clarksville, TX 75426, 903-427-3838. That dispatch also covers the county's single constable, based in the courthouse, 400 N. Walnut Street, Clarksville, TX 75426.

Towns in the county include Clarksville, Bogata, Detroit, Avery, Annona and Deport. Whether a given town fields its own officers, and how to reach them, is a question for Sheriff's dispatch at the number above. Dispatch can also say which agency handled a specific arrest.

DPS Highway Patrol troopers make arrests on the county's highways too. Sheriff's dispatch can point you to the trooper office serving this area.