With only one county lockup, the hunt is short. Try it in this order:

1. Pull up IVSS-Counties. Searching there needs no login.
2. Enter the surname. Unsure how it's spelled? Shorten it to the first few letters.
3. Match the result by age and county, and copy whatever ID or booking number sits next to it.
4. Open our jail search link as a cross-check.
5. Still in doubt, dial the Coldspring jail at 936-653-4367. Staff can confirm by name and date of birth.

When the IVSS site stalls, its toll-free line, 866-268-8959, picks up around the clock.

An empty result in Coldspring usually has a dull explanation. Check these:

• Still at intake. Fingerprinting and paperwork on Cedar Avenue can run for hours. Search again later in the day.
• Spelling. Hyphens, second last names and nicknames trip up a search. Try each version.
• Already out. A quick bond, a PR release or a dropped charge can clear someone before you look.
• Arrested over a county line. A stop near Livingston, Conroe or the Cleveland side may put them in Polk, Montgomery or Liberty County's jail.
• Feds or immigration. Those arrests show up on separate federal locators, explained lower on this page.

Guessing wastes time. The Cedar Avenue desk, 936-653-4367, knows whether the person was booked and which officer brought them.

Inside the county lines, the Sheriff's jail on Cedar Avenue is the only adult lockup. Arrests across a border usually go to that county's own jail, so these are worth a call:

• Polk County Jail, 1733 N Washington, Livingston, TX 77351, 936-327-6822. Polk also shares the 258th and 411th district judges with San Jacinto.
• Liberty County Jail, 2400 Beaumont Ave., Liberty, TX 77575, 936-336-9395.
• Montgomery County Jail, 1 Criminal Justice Dr., Conroe, TX 77301, 936-760-5800.
• Walker County Jail in Huntsville, 936-435-2412.

Each of those runs its own roster and rules. If you can't tell which side of a county line the arrest happened on, ask the officer's agency first.

IVSS is built for names and custody status, so don't count on it for pictures. Booking photos and mugshots from the Coldspring jail come by request:

1. Draft a Public Information Act letter for the Sheriff in Coldspring. Include the person's name, the day of arrest, and a line asking for the booking photo.
2. Mail it to 75 W. Cedar Avenue, Coldspring, TX 77331, or send it by fax to 936-653-5058. Questions about a pending request go to 936-653-4367.
3. The law says "promptly." Past ten business days, the Sheriff's staff owes you a date. Basic arrest information has to be released (Gov. Code 552.108(c)).

Commercial mugshot sites fall under Bus. & Com. Code chapter 109. A site charging $150-plus to delete records must still fix or pull a wrong or half-finished entry for free. And once a court expunges a record or orders nondisclosure, such sites can't post it at all.

Photos that immigration agents took are requested through ICE's FOIA office. Federal arrest photos are generally withheld. A rare exception: Marshals may publish a wanted person's picture during a manhunt.

It will, for free. Register on IVSS-Counties to get notices through its toll-free line and website, in English or Spanish, when:

• the person is booked or released,
• a court setting is added or moved,
• custody shifts, for example to TDCJ, or after an escape.

Your sign-up stays private. Nobody behind the Cedar Avenue walls learns that you registered. Rather use a phone? Call 866-268-8959. Oversight of IVSS moved to the Texas Governor's office on September 1, 2026.

Within 48 hours of booking, every new arrival goes before a magistrate. At that hearing, the charges are read aloud, the right to counsel is explained, and a bail figure goes on every count. County court records name three bonds: a surety bond through a bondsman, a cash bond paid in full, and a personal recognizance (PR) bond with no money down.

Some charges add a wait. A family violence arrest, say, means four more hours in the Coldspring jail once bond is paid (CCP 17.291(b)). The full bail rundown covers bond hearings, refunds and bondsman rules. Call 936-653-4367 for the bond amount before you spend money.

Begin at the jail. The booking sheet there lists every count and the bond set on it. Once the case is filed, the file travels to the courthouse at 1 State Hwy 150, Coldspring, TX 77331:

• District Clerk, Room 4, 936-653-2909, for felony cases.
• County Clerk, Room 2, 936-653-2324, for Class A and B misdemeanors.
• Criminal District Attorney, Room 21, 936-653-2601, decides what to file.

Online, try the clerks' court records search. Statewide, re:SearchTX lets registered users open the indictment and the judgment, and signing up is free.

Speak up at magistration. That judge walks the person through the right to counsel and the paperwork. From there, deadlines kick in:

1. The magistrate forwards the form to the appointing judge inside one day (CCP 15.17).
2. Counties under 250,000 people, San Jacinto among them, get three working days to name a lawyer (CCP 1.051(c)).
3. Under CCP 26.04(j), that lawyer should try to reach your loved one in Coldspring before one more working day ends.

Qualifying turns on a sworn list of income, debts and dependents. Getting out on bond is not an automatic disqualifier. Read San Jacinto's appointment plan through the TIDC plan page.

Texas jail rules guarantee a minimum of two no-contact visits weekly at the Coldspring lockup. Each one lasts at least twenty minutes. Plan around at least one slot per week set on a weeknight, a Saturday or a Sunday. Children visiting may be told to come with a grown-up, which can be a parent, a legal guardian or a lawyer. A veteran in custody can also meet a county veterans officer at no cost, and those meetings don't use up regular visits.

The Coldspring jail sets its own hours, sign-up steps and dress code, so phone 936-653-4367 before you drive. For video visits and scheduling tips, see our jail visiting page. Bring a photo ID.

An inmate's account covers commissary snacks, soap, stamps and phone time. Ask the Cedar Avenue staff how deposits are accepted and what each method costs. Our guide to sending jail money lays out common options, and commissary ordering explains what the funds can buy.

Save receipts. Leftover money on the account is settled at release, so find out if it returns as cash, check or card.

Calls go one way: out. Families can't dial into a cell. Texas jails must give newly booked people access to a phone in the booking area, and after that the jail's own system takes over.

On the Sheriff's web page, a flyer called NCIC Inmate Communications names the service used in Coldspring. Ask staff how calls are paid for. Set up calls with help from our inmate phone page. If the Coldspring jail offers messaging, our jail email page covers how those accounts usually work in Texas.

Nothing in state jail standards caps a person's letters, whether mailed out or delivered in. A lawyer's envelope is opened with the inmate present, solely to search for contraband. Staff can reject single pieces that break posted jail rules.

Ask the Sheriff's Office, 936-653-4367, for the exact address line and whether photos, cards or books get through. Our jail mail page has more pointers for San Jacinto letters.

Clothing, a phone and a wallet are bagged and logged at booking. The bag is handed back when the person walks out. Need the truck keys or house key sooner? The person in custody usually has to sign a form naming you.

Call the Coldspring jail to set a pickup time and ask what ID you need. Ask, too, whether anything was kept as evidence and who can release it.

Tell the jail without delay. Share the illness or injury, every medicine and dose, and the prescribing doctor. Staff can pass that to medical.

A person brought in on an emergency mental health detention may not be housed with people facing criminal charges (Health & Safety Code 573.001(a)). The jail must also explain how to file a complaint inside, in its handbook and on posted signs.

No response from Coldspring? Take it to TCJS, the state jail regulator in Austin, by calling 512-463-5505. Its jail complaint form asks for the inmate's name and yours.

In San Jacinto, sheriff's deputies and constables from Precincts 1 through 4 serve warrants. To check, call the Coldspring sheriff's desk at 936-653-4367 with the full name and birth date. DPS keeps two statewide pages: fugitives on its Texas 10 Most Wanted and most wanted sex offenders. Warrants on filed cases can also appear in the clerks' records search. To resolve one, hire a lawyer to plan a turn-in at the Coldspring jail, or phone the signing court and request a new setting. On felonies, the District Clerk keeps the file at 1 State Hwy 150, Room 4, Coldspring, TX 77331, 936-653-2909.

Misdemeanor hearings appear on the County Court docket list. For felony settings in the 258th or 411th District Court, call the District Clerk at 936-653-2909. Justice courts in Coldspring, Shepherd, Cleveland and Point Blank set Class C hearings on their own.

An IVSS sign-up sends word when a setting is added or changed. Our courts and case records page lists every clerk, judge and courtroom.

Houston is the federal courthouse for San Jacinto arrests. There, a U.S. magistrate judge hears the case first. A detention hearing comes next whenever federal prosecutors oppose release (18 U.S.C. 3142).

• U.S. Marshals, 515 Rusk Avenue, Room 10002, Houston, TX 77002, 713-718-4800. They track federal prisoners before sentencing.
• Federal Detention Center Houston, 1200 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002, 713-221-5400.
• Federal Public Defender, 440 Louisiana Street, Room 1350, Houston, TX 77002, 713-718-4600.

Before trial, some federal defendants wait in a county jail that houses Marshals prisoners. After the Bureau of Prisons takes over, check the BOP inmate locator.

Here's the usual order of events:

1. A Form I-247A detainer reaches the Coldspring jail from ICE.
2. The Sheriff can keep them for ICE up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). State law makes Texas jails comply (CCP 2A.060).
3. Agents collect the person and book them into an ICE site, such as the Montgomery Processing Center, 806 Hilbig Road, Conroe, TX 77301, 936-521-4900.
4. Look them up on the ICE Online Detainee Locator. An A-number, nine digits long, pinpoints the right detainee. Missing it? Enter the complete name and choose the country where they were born.

The Houston ICE office, 126 Northpoint Drive, Houston, TX 77060, 281-774-4816, handles this part of Texas. An immigration lawyer is worth calling early.

After a prison or state jail sentence, TDCJ takes the person from the county. They first pass through an intake unit for tests and a custody rating, then move to a unit that fits. The trip from Coldspring may come weeks after sentencing.

On the TDCJ inmate lookup, type the TDCJ number. No number? Spell the surname exactly, then add a first initial. Records refresh each working day. TDCJ Victim Services answers at 800-848-4284. Visiting a TDCJ unit has its own rules, gathered on our Texas prisons page.

In Texas, a child from 10 up to the 17th birthday counts as a juvenile. Those kids are held in juvenile detention, never the Cedar Avenue jail. Seventeen-year-olds face adult booking.

The officer has to notify a parent quickly. Within two working days a juvenile judge decides on detention, with a court-appointed attorney already in place (Fam. Code 54.01). San Jacinto Juvenile Probation, 1114 Dogwood, Livingston, TX 77351, 936-653-2771, can tell you where the child is.

Arrest paperwork in this county usually starts with a deputy or one of four elected constables:

• Sheriff's Office (patrol and jail), 75 W. Cedar Avenue, Coldspring, TX 77331, 936-653-4367.
• Constable, Precinct 1, 111 State Hwy. 150, Room A3, Coldspring, TX 77331, 936-653-5614.
• Constable, Precinct 2, 1000 N. Byrd Avenue, Shepherd, TX 77371, 936-628-1439.
• Constable, Precinct 3, 35 Lilley Yeager Loop North, Cleveland, TX 77328. Reach this office through the Sheriff's main line.
• Constable, Precinct 4, 227 Boat Launch Rd., Point Blank, TX 77364, 936-377-5412.

For an arrest inside Coldspring, Shepherd, Oakhurst or Point Blank, or one by a school officer or state trooper, ask the Sheriff's Office which agency filed it. Either way, the Coldspring jail desk can say whether the person was booked there.