Calhoun County Adult Detention Center Roster

Calhoun Adult Detention Overview

The official facility name is Calhoun County Adult Detention Center. It is operated by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office as the county jail and adult detention center for Port Lavaca and the rest of Calhoun County. The county's Adult Detention page places the jail under county law enforcement and links the public Current Inmate List. That source matters because it distinguishes the jail from the sheriff's administrative office and from the county courts, which use other addresses and systems.

The people held here are adults in local jail custody. That includes pretrial detainees, people booked on warrants, people serving county jail sentences, and local or felony defendants waiting for court action or transfer. A person arrested by the sheriff, Port Lavaca Police Department, a constable, DPS, or another authorized agency may be transported to this facility unless a medical, magistrate, or other lawful stop comes first. Sentenced Texas prison custody is not handled here after transfer. Use the Texas Department of Criminal Justice locator for that stage.

Calhoun County's Adult Detention page shows the jail address, phone number, the Current Inmate List link, and an inmate-services flyer. That official page is sparse. It confirms the core access points, but it does not publish a detailed local rulebook for visiting, mail, commissary, phone rates, or deposits in extractable text.

The official Adult Detention page screenshot below shows the county source used for the jail contact and roster link. The page also displays a Prodigy flyer, but exact services and fees should be confirmed with the jail before money is sent or a visit is planned.

The screenshot is useful as source context, but the written county text remains limited. Facility rules can change because of staffing, lockdowns, holidays, court orders, and security decisions.

Calhoun Detention Capacity

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards county population PDF linked as Current listed Calhoun with 144 total capacity in an August 2019 row. The same TCJS row listed 85 total population, 85 local population, 0 contract population, 59.03 percent of capacity, and 45 available beds. That is an official jail-capacity benchmark, but it is dated. It should not be treated as a live 2026 count.

The county-linked live roster grid showed 75 current rows when inspected on June 29, 2026. That is a roster observation, not an average daily population report and not the same date as the TCJS capacity row. The distinction is important. Capacity describes the rated bed limit from the state jail standards source. A roster row count describes the people shown in the public grid at the time it was checked.

Look Up Calhoun Inmates

Use the county-linked Calhoun County Adult Detention Center roster for local jail custody. The roster home page is labeled for the facility and has Inmates, Charges, and Days search paths. It also has Current and Released modes. The current inmate grid inspected for this project showed visible columns for Full Name, Age, Race, Sex, and Admit Date. The grid state also included primary charge, court type, and arresting agency fields as hidden or adaptive fields.

The roster is best for people still in the local jail or recently shown in the jail system. It is not the right tool for a person already transferred to Texas state prison after sentencing. In that situation, search the TDCJ Inmate Search by TDCJ number, SID number, or name. No state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention facility was located in Calhoun County, so those systems should be treated as separate fallback channels, not as local jail pages.

1. Open the county Adult Detention page and choose Current Inmate List, or go directly to the county-linked roster.
2. Use the Inmates tab to search by name. The name autocomplete requires at least a short entry before it returns matches.
3. Use the Charges tab if the known detail is a charge description instead of a name.
4. Use the Days search for recent booking activity over a selected number of days.
5. Switch between Current and Released mode when a person may have left custody.
6. If the roster fails or the result is unclear, call the jail at 361-553-4475 before assuming the person is not in custody.

Calhoun Jail Contact

Use the Adult Detention Center contact line for custody status, roster questions, bond or booking questions, visitation questions, and inmate service questions. Use the sheriff's administrative office for broader sheriff's office routing, civil process, fee questions, or general law enforcement administration. The two official county pages list different addresses, so visitors should not treat the sheriff administration address as the jail address.

Calhoun Detention Visits

The inspected Calhoun County Adult Detention page did not publish a written visitation schedule, local visitor rule sheet, visiting-hour table, or text policy for video visits. It does show a Prodigy flyer image, which suggests an inmate-services vendor is relevant, but the exact services, rates, schedule, and setup steps were not extracted as official text. Do not rely on visiting days or times copied from another Texas jail. Call 361-553-4475 before traveling.

Ask the jail whether the visit is in person, remote video, attorney-only, or restricted by housing assignment. Also ask what identification is accepted, whether minors can visit, what property is prohibited, and whether visits are affected by lockdowns, court transport, medical status, or disciplinary restrictions. The county research did not locate posted parking rules or a public-entry checklist, so confirm those details with the jail as well.

Calhoun Mail and Money

Calhoun County did not publish an extractable jail mail policy, commissary fee table, phone rate table, or money-deposit procedure in the official text reviewed for this build. The safe public guidance is to call the Adult Detention Center before mailing anything or sending funds. Ask for the required inmate name format, booking or roster identifier if needed, accepted mailing address, prohibited items, photo rules, book or publication rules, and whether legal mail follows a different path.

For money and communications, ask whether Prodigy is the active provider for the specific service you need, and ask for the exact website, kiosk, phone number, fees, refund rules, and cutoff times. A Prodigy flyer appears on the official Adult Detention page, but the inspected research did not text-extract enough detail to state fees or service scope with confidence. Fees should not be inferred from another county, another jail, or a vendor page that is not tied to this Calhoun facility.

Calhoun Booking Intake

Calhoun County did not publish a detailed local booking manual, so the practical flow should be described from the official roster fields and Texas arrest process. After an arrest, the person may be transported to the Adult Detention Center. Jail staff generally confirm identity, record the arresting agency, enter the charge or warrant basis, inventory property, screen for medical or mental health concerns, and place the person in a holding or housing area based on classification and facility rules.

The public roster reflects part of that intake process. The visible grid includes an Admit Date, while hidden or adaptive fields identified in the research include primary charge, court type, and arresting agency. After booking, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 requires a prompt first appearance before a magistrate without unnecessary delay. At that appearance, the magistrate gives required warnings, addresses counsel rights, and may handle bail depending on the charge and authority.

The usual local path is arrest, transport to the Adult Detention Center, booking and intake, roster entry, Article 15.17 first appearance, bond or continued hold, and then court filing and settings. Formal court charges may differ from the arrest or booking description. For filed case information, use Calhoun County's court-record channels rather than relying only on the jail grid.

Calhoun Custody Limits

The Calhoun County Adult Detention Center is the only confirmed local detention facility identified for this project. No TDCJ state prison unit, BOP federal prison, or ICE detention facility was located physically in Calhoun County. That matters when a roster search fails. A missing jail result does not prove release. It may mean the person was transferred, sentenced, entered another custody system, or is held under a process that is not displayed in the Calhoun jail grid.

Use TDCJ for sentenced Texas prison custody. Use the BOP inmate locator for sentenced federal custody. Use ICE's Online Detainee Locator System for immigration detention, keeping in mind that an ICE hold noted in local custody is different from being physically held in ICE detention. Federal pretrial custody may involve the U.S. Marshals Service and contract facilities outside the county. When the custody path is unclear, call the jail and check court records.

About Calhoun Detention

No official construction year, housing-unit map, accreditation note, renovation history, GED program page, vocational program page, work-release description, medical request procedure, mental-health request procedure, grievance procedure, or reentry program page was located in the inspected Adult Detention text. Texas county jails are regulated in state context by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, and TCJS population reports supply capacity and population benchmarks. Local program details, if available to a specific family member or attorney, should be confirmed directly with the jail.

The official county pages inspected showed active 2026 updates for the Adult Detention page and several court and records pages, but no located official jail construction notice, consent decree, DOJ investigation, TCJS enforcement action, or jail-death litigation source for this facility. Do not treat the absence of a located notice as a guarantee that no issue exists. It means the inspected official materials did not support a specific claim.