1. Open the Sheriff's current inmates list.
2. Type a last name into the filter box. Part of a spelling works when you are unsure.
3. Click the name to open the booking card: height, weight, sex, arrest date, days held so far, and which agency brought the person in.
4. Scroll to the charge rows. Every row has a warrant number, the statute, a letter (M marks a misdemeanor, F a felony) and a bond figure for that one count.
5. Check the total bond at the bottom. "NOT SET" means the magistrate has not ruled yet; "DENIED" means no bond for now.

Home addresses are blacked out on the list, so match by age and photo when two people share a name.

Booking takes time. Fingerprints, photos, a property count and a medical screen all happen before a name reaches the list. Try the "24 Hours Arrests" view on the same site, then wait an hour or two and look again.

Still blank? Call Booking. Staff can say if the person is in the building, was released, or was handed to another agency. A Young County deputy or other outside officer may have taken the person to that agency's own jail instead. The next answer lists the jails just over the county lines.

Inside the county there is only the Dyer Street jail. It splits men and women into two levels each: maximum custody, and medium or minimum custody. Breckenridge police share the building and walk their arrests straight down the hall, so no city jail exists to call.

Someone picked up just past a county line lands in that county's lockup. Neighboring jails with their own pages:

• Young County Jail, 315 Cliff Drive N, Graham, TX 76450, 940-549-1555 (north).
• Shackelford County Jail, 791 W. US Hwy 180, Albany, TX 76430, 325-762-9555, that county's round-the-clock dispatch (west).
• Callahan County Jail, 432 Market Street, Baird, TX 79504, 325-854-1444 (southwest).
• Eastland County Jail, 201 W. White Street, Eastland, TX 76448; reach it through the Eastland Sheriff, 254-629-1774 (south).

Yes. Each card on the Sheriff's interopweb roster carries a booking photo while the person is held. Once they leave, the photo leaves with them.

Wanting an older photo means putting it in writing to the Dyer Street Sheriff's Office as a Public Information Act request. The basic details of any arrest stay open to the public, and must be handed over promptly (GC 552.108(c)). Past ten working days, the office has to name a release date.

Commercial mugshot websites that charge $150 or more for removal must fix or pull, at no cost, a record shown to be wrong or incomplete. They also can't post an expunged record or one covered by a nondisclosure order (BCC 109.004, 109.005). Federal booking photos rarely come out; for ICE photos, file through ICE FOIA.

Texas IVSS-Counties does, at no charge, by website or at 866-268-8959, day or night, in English or Spanish. Searching works with all or part of a name. No account is needed to sign up, and registrations stay confidential from the inmate.

Alerts cover booking, release, a new or changed court setting, and a move such as a transfer to state prison. If an alert seems slow, Booking can confirm by phone.

The Justice of the Peace, sitting as magistrate, normally sets bond within 48 hours of arrest, and the roster then shows a figure beside each charge. Families meet three kinds: a personal bond (a signed promise, no cash up front), cash covering the whole figure, or a bondsman's surety bond for a fee. On family violence charges, Texas holds the person four more hours once bond is posted (CCP 17.291).

Many people out on bond report to the 90th District's Bond Supervision office at 210 E. Dyer, Breckenridge, TX 76424, 940-521-6356. Our Stephens bail page explains each bond type, refunds and holds, while statewide bail law gets its own Texas bail rules page from us.

Start with the roster. Each charge line names the offense, the statute, the warrant number and the M or F level. Our court page explains what each level can carry.

For the papers themselves, call whoever keeps them. Felony files live with the District Clerk, 254-559-3151. Jailable misdemeanor files live with the County Clerk, 254-559-3700. Both offices are in the courthouse at 200 West Walker, Breckenridge, TX 76424. Have the full name and arrest date ready; a cause number speeds things up.

Stephens runs no public defender office. A person who can't pay says so at the magistrate hearing and signs the request there. The 90th District judge then names a private attorney off a rotating list, on felonies and on any misdemeanor that could mean jail.

After a few days, the District Clerk can tell relatives whether a name has been assigned. The county's written appointment rules are on the state indigent defense site. Capital charges go to a regional capital defense office. Paying a Breckenridge or Graham attorney privately stays an option all along.

Visits run on two days, Tuesday daytime and Thursday evening. Slots depend on sex and custody level:

• Tuesday: men in maximum custody 8:00 AM; men in medium or minimum 9:00, 10:00 or 11:00 AM, or 1:00 or 2:00 PM. Women in maximum custody 8:30 AM; women in medium or minimum 3:00, 4:00 or 5:00 PM (Tuesday sheet).
• Thursday: men in maximum custody 6:00 PM; men in medium or minimum 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30 or 9:00 PM. Women in maximum custody 6:30 PM; women in medium or minimum 9:30, 10:00 or 10:30 PM (Thursday sheet).

Your name must already be on the person's visitor list, and sign-in closes 15 minutes before the slot. Under TCJS rules, each inmate is owed two or more weekly visits, each lasting 20-plus minutes, and veterans may get extra visits with a veterans officer. More tips: our visiting page.

Money goes into the person's jail account, which usually covers snacks, soap and calls. Phone the jail at 254-559-2705 and ask three things: which deposit methods work today, whether a weekly cap applies, and how the account name is spelled. Keep the inmate's legal name and date of birth handy.

Our deposits page compares ways to fund an account. Our commissary page lists what that balance can buy.

That first call home often happens right in Booking, since TCJS building standards demand a phone there. For later calls, video visits and messages, ask the jail which company runs them now and how to fund an account. Keep calls short and skip case details, since jail calls may be recorded.

See our phone page for setting up a prepaid account and our messaging page for electronic notes.

Write the person's full name, then: Stephens County Jail, 210 E. Dyer, Breckenridge, TX 76424. Your name and mailing address go top left. Call the jail before mailing photos, books or anything thicker than a letter.

Texas jail standards cap neither the number of letters nor their length, coming or going. Attorney mail is opened only with the addressee standing there, and the search covers contraband alone. Anyone broke receives free supplies for three or more letters each week. More: our mail page.

Clothing, wallets, phones and keys are counted and bagged at booking. Usually they go home with the person at release. If the family needs something sooner, car keys for example, call the jail first. Ask whether the person can sign the item over, which photo ID the pickup person needs, and what hours work.

Call the jail and ask for the officer in charge of the shift. Give the person's name, the drug and dose, and the doctor or pharmacy that can confirm it. Signs of mental illness noticed by Dyer Street staff start a 12-hour reporting deadline to the JP (CCP 16.22). People brought in solely on an emergency mental health hold sleep separately from the criminal side.

Inmates file complaints inside the jail through its grievance process. If that fails, families can reach the state's jail standards commission, 512-463-5505. The Sheriff's website also links veterans to Make the Connection, a support resource.

Outside town, warrants belong to the Sheriff's Office, 254-559-2481; inside the city, to Breckenridge police, 254-559-2211. The county Constable also serves papers, reachable via the Sheriff's line. The Justice of the Peace signs many local arrest warrants. Statewide, see who DPS ranks among the Texas 10 Most Wanted. Either agency can confirm a warrant by phone. Settling one starts with hiring counsel; then walk into the Dyer Street jail together, or let counsel request a setting from whichever judge signed it. For felony warrant paperwork, try the District Clerk, 200 West Walker, Breckenridge, TX 76424, 254-559-3151.

Walker Street clerks set and track every date. On felonies dial the District Clerk, 254-559-3151; on misdemeanors, the County Clerk. The county also posts district court dockets and county court dockets. Statewide, re:SearchTX shows filings to anyone who registers, free. Our court page covers each stage, arrest to sentence.

Federal prosecutions from around Breckenridge belong to the Abilene Division of the Northern District, U.S. Courthouse, 341 Pine Street, Room 2008, Abilene, TX 79601, 325-677-6311. Pretrial release there turns on a detention hearing, usually before an Abilene magistrate judge (18 U.S.C. 3142).

Until sentencing, U.S. Marshals keep custody, frequently renting space in a county lockup. Their Abilene office is at 341 Pine Street, Room 207, Abilene, TX 79601, 325-672-2147. After the sentence, the Bureau of Prisons locator shows where they went.

1. Paperwork arrives at Dyer Street from ICE: Form I-247A, a detainer.
2. Once local charges allow release, Booking 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. Texas law makes jails comply with detainers (CCP 2A.060). Since 2017, no Texas county or city may adopt a policy that materially limits immigration enforcement (GC 752.053). And per S.B. 8 from the 2025 session, counties that run a jail face December 1, 2026 for joining the 287(g) program. Call the Sheriff about the local status.
4. ICE may then send the person to a detention center, possibly hundreds of miles off. Use the ICE Online Detainee Locator: enter full name and birth country, plus either the A-number or the birth date.
5. No match? Phone ICE's Dallas Field Office, responsible for North Texas: 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.

Lowest-tier felony time (state jail) runs at a TDCJ state jail; degree felonies mean prison. After sentencing, the person stays on Dyer Street until the state sends transport. Intake comes next, with classification, and then assignment to a fitting unit.

Names surface on the TDCJ inmate search only after arrival at a TDCJ facility; it refreshes on working days. Unit rules on visits, letters and deposits live on our Texas prisons page.

At 17 a Texan is an adult in criminal court, and Dyer Street can book them. Children aged 10 through 16 go to juvenile court instead and are never housed with adults. Whoever takes a child in must quickly let a parent know, and why (FC 52.02).

No juvenile detention center operates in the county. Juvenile Probation at the courthouse, 200 West Walker, Breckenridge, TX 76424, 254-559-3802, can say where the child is held. Detention review happens before a Stephens juvenile judge by the second working day; the youngster's court-named lawyer comes on first (FC 54.01).

Each roster card names the arresting agency. Here is who patrols where:

• Stephens County Sheriff's Office, 210 East Dyer Street, Breckenridge, TX 76424, 254-559-2481. Deputies cover all ground outside city limits.
• Breckenridge Police Department, 210 E Dyer Street, Breckenridge, TX 76424, non-emergency 254-559-2211. The county's sole municipal police force.
• County Constable: serves warrants and court papers. Reach that office through the Sheriff's number above.
• Texas DPS troopers: work the state highways and book arrests into the county jail. After a trooper arrest, ring the jail at 254-559-2705 for the charge and next steps.