Jim Wells Jail Release Paths
The Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department operates the county jail. A release from this county facility is not one uniform event. A court may authorize cash, surety, or personal bond. A defendant may leave after dismissal, acquittal, time served, sentence completion, probation, or another judicial order. In each case, the sheriff's booking-out record should show the end of local physical custody.
Other departures are transfers. A person sentenced to TDCJ may leave the local roster for state intake. A warrant or detainer can send the person to another county, the U.S. Marshals Service, federal prison processing, or immigration custody. A hospital or another authority may also receive the person. The destination field is therefore essential.
| Departure path | Best proof | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Bond or court order | Sheriff release entry plus signed order | May be community release; the case can remain pending |
| Time served or sentence complete | Judgment, credit calculation, and release record | Ends that jail custody episode |
| Probation | Judgment and CSCD confirmation | Community supervision, not case dismissal |
| TDCJ transfer | Sheriff destination and later TDCJ intake | Continued secure custody |
| Other agency hold | Detainer disposition and receiving record | Transfer, not community release |
Confirm Jim Wells Jail Release
The official sheriff jail page links Platinum Webjail and labels it Current Jail Roster. Research of the current interface found booking and photo fields but no release date, reason, destination, archive control, or twenty-four-hour or seventy-two-hour release mode. The endpoint was available only through an HTTP address during research, so begin at the sheriff's official linking page.
- Search the current roster and match the person by name, date of birth, and booking identifier where available.
- If the entry is present, save the booking identifier needed for a focused inquiry. Do not republish unrelated personal details.
- If the entry disappears, call 361-668-0341 and ask whether that booking ended through release or transfer.
- Search the correct clerk case. County-level criminal matters route through the County Clerk; felonies route through the District Clerk.
- Request the booking-and-release record with date, time, reason, destination, and detainer disposition.
- If the person transferred, continue with TDCJ, the receiving county, BOP, USMS, or ICE as the evidence directs.
The full Jim Wells County released-inmate search sets out the named-person and historical record paths. For a county booking, the jail register is the durable fallback when a live roster entry is gone.
The official roster link is visible on the sheriff's jail source.
Its current-only label is why the sheriff record and court file are needed after a name disappears.
Jim Wells Jail Release Records
A narrow written request is more useful than asking for every document about a person. Identify the booking by full name, booking number, date of birth, and date range. Ask for booking date and time, charges, arresting agency, court or cause number, bond type and amount, holds, custody movements, release date and time, release reason or code, destination, detainer disposition, and the booking photograph. If a code is used, ask for the custodian's definition.
The Jim Wells public-information request page provides the county route. Requests can be directed to the county at 200 North Almond Street, Alice, TX 78332, with fax 361-661-1372. No fixed local fee or production promise was found. Texas Government Code Chapter 552 requires prompt production within a reasonable time. Ten business days is tied to certain notices and ruling steps, not a universal delivery deadline.
The permanent county jail register includes release or transfer date under Local Schedule PS. Booking and release authorization records are generally retained for release or transfer plus two years. Those retention periods do not guarantee online display or disclosure of every field. Confidential information, active-case material, juvenile records, medical data, and protected identifiers may be withheld or redacted.
Note: Ask the custodian to release non-exempt portions and cite the legal basis for each withheld field.
Jim Wells Jail Contact Details
Official sources give two nearby addresses. The sheriff page lists the department at 300 North Cameron Street. A county inmate-healthcare request for proposals identifies the jail at 300 North Almond. Do not assume which door handles public jail inquiries. Call before visiting and ask for the current entrance.
Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department
Department office: 300 North Cameron Street
Jail address in 2024 RFP: 300 North Almond
Alice, TX 78332
Mail: P.O. Box 1286, Alice, TX 78333
Phone: 361-668-0341
Fax: 361-668-0569
Public office: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
The listed schedule is for the sheriff's public office. It is not a sourced release-processing schedule. No official material reviewed states the jail's release door, family waiting area, property-return method, weekend practice, or hour when releases occur. Confirm each point by phone for the specific booking.
The county sheriff page is the source for the department's contact information and jail responsibility.
Use those office details to verify the current public entrance and records route before a trip.
Jim Wells Jail Population Facts
Jim Wells County Jail is a county detention facility for male and female detainees. It is not a TDCJ prison, BOP institution, or dedicated ICE detention center. The county sheriff is responsible for local jail operation and accepting bail for people in custody, while magistrates generally set bail terms.
These figures describe different operational snapshots. Neither is an annual release count, annual booking count, average stay, or turnover rate. They must not be used to estimate how many people leave Jim Wells County Jail in a year. No sourced annual release statistic was found.
The current roster's inspected fields include booking date and ID, subject and person identifiers, name, date of birth, physical descriptors, bond-denied flag, timestamps, and a photo stream. Those fields describe the person while listed. They do not establish why or where the person went after removal.
After Jim Wells Jail Release
Follow the legal disposition. If the judgment orders probation, the 79th Judicial District CSCD serves Jim Wells and Brooks Counties. Its Alice office is at 610 East Second Street and can explain public confirmation of community-supervision status. CSS online reporting requires an officer-issued access code, so it is not a public name search.
If the judgment imposes a TDCJ sentence, wait for state intake to populate the current-only TDCJ locator. A same-day gap between the Jim Wells roster and TDCJ is not unusual proof of community release. Request the sheriff's destination when the state record has not yet appeared. If parole later follows the prison term, use TDCJ Parole Division and BPP status.
For federal custody, the BOP locator covers many current and former federal prisoners from 1982 forward, though USMS pretrial custody has no equivalent general historical locator. For current immigration detention, use ICE ODLS and the agency information line. Match identifiers carefully and preserve the phrasing “released from Jim Wells County custody to” the receiving authority when that is what the record shows.
Jim Wells Jail ICE Distinction
No current official evidence reviewed identifies Jim Wells County Jail as an ICE contract detention facility. That absence matters. A local jail hold and a dedicated immigration detention contract are not the same thing.
The ICE Harlingen check-in office listing includes Jim Wells County in its service area. That office is a regional post-release immigration-supervision contact. It is not the custody locator. Use ICE ODLS for current immigration custody, using an A-number or biographical details as the system permits.
If the sheriff record lists an immigration hold or transfer, ask for the destination and hold disposition. A county booking marked released may mean only that the county surrendered custody to another authority.
Jim Wells Jail Facility Changes
Jim Wells County has solicited a broad jail evaluation that considers repairs or renovation for standards compliance, expansion, or construction of a new facility. The county bidding page and its linked procurement are the dated sources. They show that facility options have been evaluated, not that a particular project has been selected or completed.
The Texas Historical Commission record separately documents a January 1912 county bond vote for a courthouse and jail. It does not establish that today's jail is the 1912 building. The conflicting North Cameron and North Almond addresses should likewise be handled as an entrance-verification issue, not used to infer building history.
Current custody and release requests still go through the sheriff's present channels. Historic planning records can explain the county's jail evolution, but they do not confirm any person's booking, release, or transfer.
Note: Facility planning and historic bond records describe buildings and public projects, not individual custody outcomes.