1. Go to Texas IVSS-Counties. It searches people in custody or under supervision by full or partial name.
2. Enter a surname. Add a first name only if too many matches appear.
3. Open the entry that matches your person. The record tells you if they are still held.
4. Check the Sheriff's jail lookup as well.
5. Still unsure? Ring the jail at 432-943-6703. Booking staff can confirm custody, charges and bond.

IVSS-Counties moved under the Office of the Governor's management on September 1, 2026. Its web address and phone line stay the same.

Here's why a search often comes back blank:

• Booking is still underway. Paperwork on the Parkway takes time, and a record may post hours later.
• Release came first. A posted bond, a no-cash personal bond or a dropped case may have freed the person already.
• Spelling. Try a partial last name, a second surname, or a maiden name.
• Custody moved. TDCJ, federal marshals or ICE may have taken the person. Their own searches appear further down this page.
• Arrest elsewhere. A stop in Odessa, Kermit or Fort Stockton means that county's jail.

To confirm where a city or constable arrest was booked, call 432-943-6703. For the paper side of a case, the District Clerk takes felonies at 432-943-2751, and the County Clerk handles Class A and B charges at 432-943-3294.

Inside Ward, yes. The county runs one jail, operated by the Sheriff's Office. It replaced the former jail on East 4th Street, so ignore older listings that still use that address.

An arrest made in a bordering county goes to that neighbor's jail:

• Winkler County Detention Center, 1300 South Bellaire Street, Kermit, TX 79745, 432-586-3461. Loving County has no jail and sends its people here.
• Ector County Detention Center, 2500 South US Highway 385, Odessa, TX 79764, 432-335-3060
• Crane County Jail, 464 NW Truck Route, Crane, TX 79731, 432-558-3571
• Pecos County Jail, run by the Pecos County Sheriff, 1774 N. Hwy 285, Fort Stockton, TX 79735, 432-336-3521

IVSS-Counties tracks custody status and sends alerts. Mugshots and other arrest records can be requested in writing, as a Public Information Act request, from the Sheriff's Office, 415 E. Monahans Parkway, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-6703. Under Gov't Code 552.108(c), basic information about an arrest is public and must be released promptly. That section doesn't mention photos by name, so the Sheriff weighs each request. Withholding anything generally requires a ruling request to the Attorney General.

Commercial mugshot sites answer to a state law, Business and Commerce Code ch. 109. If a site's removal price is $150 or higher, it has to correct an inaccurate or incomplete entry for free. They may not post records erased by expunction or shielded by a nondisclosure order.

ICE releases its photos only through an ICE FOIA request. Other federal booking photos are withheld as a rule. The Marshals can make an exception and release one, say when hunting a fugitive.

Yes, and it costs nothing. Texas IVSS-Counties replaced VINE; trust it over any older Sheriff link. Register at IVSS-Counties or by phone at 866-268-8959, staffed day and night with English and Spanish help. An account is optional.

Notices fire on booking or release, on a new or rescheduled court date, and if the person escapes, dies or moves to TDCJ. The person in custody isn't told you signed up. After a move into a TDCJ prison, TDCJ Victim Services handles notices at 800-848-4284.

A magistrate sees each new arrest within 48 hours and sets the bail amount. State law (CCP 17.033) sets a clock for warrantless arrests. If the magistrate makes no probable-cause finding, a misdemeanor arrest means release on bond of $5,000 or less by hour 24. A felony arrest means release on bond of $10,000 or less by hour 48. The state may ask to delay that release up to 72 hours.

Bail in Texas takes three forms: cash, a surety bond bought through a bondsman, or a personal bond (a signed promise, no deposit). A long list of violent offenses bars that third kind. Family violence cases where more harm is feared carry a four-hour hold that starts once bond is posted (CCP 17.291).

Ask the jail at 432-943-6703 where and how a bond is posted. Each step of posting bond is on our bail and bond page. For Austin's rules that apply everywhere, read our Texas bail laws page.

Booking staff at 432-943-6703 can read you the charge and the bond set for it. Basic arrest facts, such as the offense, are public in Texas under Gov't Code 552.108(c).

After the District Attorney or County Attorney files, the formal charge goes on record with a clerk:

• felony: District Clerk, 400 South Allen, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-2751
• Class A or B misdemeanor: County Clerk, 400 S Allen, Suite 101, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-3294

Registered users of re:SearchTX can read the charging papers online for free.

At the first appearance before a magistrate, the person gets request forms and help completing them. The judge gets the request within 24 hours and appoints counsel within three working days. Before then, forms are at the District Clerk's office for felonies or the County Clerk's for misdemeanors.

Under the plan, people who receive SSI, TANF, Medicaid, SNAP food benefits or public housing count as too poor to hire counsel. A low-income household can also qualify, with income that doesn't top the federal poverty guideline and assets of $2,500 or less, or $5,000 when someone in it is 60 or older or disabled. Help from friends or family doesn't count against the person, and posting bail doesn't either. With no local public defender, private lawyers take cases in rotation. The Loving, Reeves and Ward plan has the details.

Call 432-943-6703 before driving out to the Parkway. Ask about open visiting days and times, how visitors get approved, which IDs work, and what a child needs. Ask too whether the Parkway jail runs video visits, from home or a lobby terminal, as many Texas jails do.

State standards set the floor. Each week, every person held is owed two or more in-person, noncontact visits of 20 minutes or longer. One slot or more must land on an evening or weekend. A visiting child may need an adult escort: a parent, guardian or attorney. Verified veterans get added visits outside those two. More is on our jail visits page.

Account money usually goes to commissary and phone time. Phone the jail at 432-943-6703 and ask:

• whether deposits go through a lobby kiosk, by phone or online
• what the fee is, and whether there's a cap per deposit
• how money for phone time differs from money for commissary
• how any balance left at release gets paid back

Deposit options in general are laid out on our inmate money page. For what the jail store stocks, see our commissary page.

Texas jail rules call for a telephone that detainees can use in booking, so a first call out often happens there. After that, ask the jail at 432-943-6703 how housing-unit calls, tablets or messages work, how families open an account, the price of a call, and whether calls are recorded. Defense lawyers can ask the jail how to arrange a private call.

How families usually fund calls is covered on our jail phone page; messaging is on our inmate messaging page.

Confirm the mailing address with the jail at 432-943-6703 before you write. Some older listings still show the former East 4th Street jail. Address the envelope with the inmate's complete legal name, adding the booking number if the jail supplies one.

Texas standards guarantee a few things about mail:

• No limit on letters sent or received, or on pages.
• Mail from a lawyer gets opened with the person watching, and only so staff can look for contraband.
• Inmates without money are given stationery and postage for at least three letters every week.
• Single items can be refused when they break a rule.

More on photos, books and packages is on our inmate mail page.

Whatever booking staff took is kept in jail storage. Call 432-943-6703, ask for Booking, and ask:

• whether the person can sign items over to family, and which ones
• what ID the person picking up must bring
• which days and hours pickup happens at the Parkway building

If police kept an item as evidence, ask the arresting agency about getting it back.

Call the jail at 432-943-6703 right away and ask for whoever is supervising the jail that shift. Give the person's name and the condition, medicine or allergy, and the prescriber's contact.

Health and Safety Code 573.001 covers a person held in jail only for an emergency mental health check. That person must stay apart from anyone charged with a crime or serving time. Each Texas jail must also explain its complaint procedure to inmates, both in writing and on wall postings. When a complaint stalls, escalate to Austin, where the state jail commission (TCJS) answers at 512-463-5505, accepts its online jail complaint form, and reads email sent to info@tcjs.state.tx.us about any Texas jail.

The Sheriff's Office, 415 E. Monahans Parkway, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-6703, carries out warrants across the county. Constable Precinct 2 also serves papers from 1504 South Kenneth Street, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-3013. Monahans police work out of City Hall, 112 W 2nd Street, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-4343. Ask deputies by phone whether a local warrant exists, or ask the clerk for the court that issued it. Texas DPS posts photos of its 10 Most Wanted fugitives. A lawyer can arrange a walk-in surrender at the Parkway jail, or the issuing court can reset the date. The District Clerk sits at 400 South Allen, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-2751.

Each clerk keeps the calendar for its own cases:

• felony settings in the 143rd: District Clerk, 432-943-2751
• Class A and B: County Clerk, 432-943-3294
• tickets and Class C: justice courts at 3600 S Stockton Street, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-7227 (Precincts 1 and 4) or 432-943-7237 (Precincts 2 and 3)

The 143rd also posts its 2026 jury weeks. Registered IVSS-Counties users get a notice when a hearing is added or moved. Our court guide explains each hearing.

Federal arrests from Ward are heard at the federal courthouse in Pecos, 410 South Cedar, Pecos, TX 79772, clerk 432-445-4228. At a detention hearing there, a federal judge rules on pretrial release (18 U.S.C. 3142).

Before sentencing, federal prisoners belong to the Marshals, who often place them in county jails, the Parkway building among the possibilities. The Marshals' Pecos office, 410 South Cedar, Pecos, TX 79772, 432-445-5495, can say where someone is held. After sentencing, look on the BOP inmate locator.

1. Paperwork arrives first. On Form I-247A, ICE asks Ward's jailers to keep the person for pickup.
2. From that point, the Parkway staff may keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE officers collect the person at the Parkway building and drive them to a facility ICE chooses.
4. Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator with the A-number. Without one, use name plus birth country.

A 2017 Texas law requires jails to follow these detainers. Only proven citizenship or lawful immigration status lets someone out of it (CCP 2A.060). Local governments may not restrict immigration enforcement, per Gov't Code 752.053. A 2025 law made sheriffs who run jails seek 287(g) agreements; their cutoff is December 1, 2026. To hear where Ward stands, phone the Sheriff's Office at 432-943-6703.

Following a 143rd felony sentence, the person stays on the Parkway until TDCJ collects them. TDCJ first classifies them at an intake unit, then assigns a long-term unit. State jail sentences are served in state jails.

• Search the TDCJ inmate lookup by TDCJ number or SID number. A name search needs the exact surname and an initial. Only people inside TDCJ right now appear, and updates come on working days, at least a day behind.
• Our state prisons in Texas page lists each unit.

Only at 17. Texas criminal law counts 17-year-olds as adults, so booking happens at the Parkway jail. Youths 10 through 16 go into the juvenile system instead, never adult booking. Police must alert a parent without delay under Family Code 52.02. A youth who stays detained sees a judge within two working days, with counsel appointed beforehand.

Ward has no juvenile detention center of its own, so a held youth goes to a center elsewhere. To learn which one, and to reach juvenile probation, call the Sheriff's Office at 432-943-6703. Youth lawyers come from the Loving, Reeves and Ward Juvenile Board Plan.

Ward's agencies split the ground like this:

• Inside the seat's city limits: Monahans Police Department, 112 W 2nd Street, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-4343 (City Hall's main line)
• Everywhere else, including the five small towns and rural areas: Ward County Sheriff's Office, 415 E. Monahans Parkway, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-6703
• Constable Precinct 2: 1504 South Kenneth Street, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-3013

Barstow, Grandfalls, Pyote, Thorntonville and Wickett rely on Sheriff's deputies for patrol. Each town hall can field local questions:

• Barstow: P.O. Box 98, Barstow, TX 79719, 432-445-6838
• Grandfalls: P.O. Box 327, Grandfalls, TX 79742, 432-547-2331
• Pyote: P.O. Box 137, Pyote, TX 79777, 432-389-5845
• Thorntonville: P.O. Box 710, Monahans, TX 79756, 432-943-3752
• Wickett: P.O. Box 185, Wickett, TX 79788, 432-943-6765