Calhoun County Inmate Population
The official local jail for the Calhoun County inmate population is the Calhoun County Adult Detention Center in Port Lavaca. The county Adult Detention page links the public Current Inmate List, and that roster is the first source for people in county custody after arrest. The jail is operated by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Bobbie Vickery. The county page separates the jail address from the sheriff and courthouse address, which matters for visitors, records requests, and court questions.
Calhoun County jail custody is not the same as Texas prison custody. The county jail holds adults after local arrest, people waiting for a magistrate or bond setting, defendants waiting on court dates, local sentenced jail inmates, warrant holds, parole or probation holds, and short transfer holds. A person sentenced to Texas prison moves into the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search. Federal sentenced custody uses the BOP inmate locator, and immigration detention uses ICE systems.
Calhoun County Inmate Population Statistics
The most useful Calhoun County inmate population figures come from two different official sources. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards county population reports page linked a county population PDF whose Calhoun row listed capacity, population, and status categories. That PDF is official, but the located file path and header date point to August 2019. The live roster count is more current for a point-in-time jail lookup, but it is not an average daily population report.
| Measure | Figure | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
| Jail capacity | 144 beds | TCJS county population PDF, August 2019 |
| Total population | 85 | TCJS county population PDF, August 2019 |
| Local population | 85 | TCJS county population PDF, August 2019 |
| Contract population | 0 | TCJS county population PDF, August 2019 |
| Percent of capacity | 59.03% | TCJS county population PDF, August 2019 |
| Available beds | 45 | TCJS county population PDF, August 2019 |
| Current roster row count | 75 | Calhoun current inmates grid, inspected June 29, 2026 |
Those numbers should be read with care. The TCJS count is a dated jail population benchmark. The roster count is a live display count from the county-linked roster grid. A roster row can help a family confirm custody, while a TCJS population row helps explain jail capacity and crowding. They answer different questions.
Calhoun County Inmate Population Trends
The research did not locate a published Calhoun County average daily population series for each year from 2020 through 2025. That absence matters because a trend table should not be filled with estimates. The available record supports a narrow trend view: a dated TCJS benchmark and a later live roster observation.
| Year or date | Count | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| August 2019 TCJS PDF | 85 total population | Official dated capacity report row with 144-bed capacity |
| June 29, 2026 roster inspection | 75 current roster rows | Live public roster count observed from grid state, not ADP |
| 2020 to 2025 | Not located | No official year-by-year Calhoun ADP table found in the research set |
Population changes can come from arrests, release on bond, court delays, sentence credits, transfers to TDCJ, warrant holds, and other agency detainers. In Calhoun County, the public roster makes current custody easier to check than long-term jail trend data. Use the roster for today's custody question and TCJS for capacity context.
Calhoun County Jail Population Makeup
The TCJS row describes the Calhoun County inmate population by custody and offense status, not by race or sex. The live roster grid has Age, Race, and Sex columns, but the research did not aggregate those rows into a new demographic dataset. The better sourced local breakdown is the jail-status mix in the TCJS row.
| TCJS category | Calhoun figure |
|---|---|
| Pretrial felons | 26 |
| Pretrial misdemeanants | 19 |
| Pretrial state jail felony | 13 |
| Convicted felons | 3 |
| Parole violators | 3 |
| Bench warrants | 1 |
| Federal | 0 |
A pretrial person has been accused and is waiting for more court action. A sentenced county jail inmate is serving local jail time. A state jail felony category is a Texas offense class that can route differently from a county misdemeanor. These terms affect where a name appears and how long the person may stay in local custody.
Calhoun County Jail Population Laws
Texas law controls much of the access path for Calhoun County jail population data. The local roster is a county jail source, but public access, jail standards, bond, first appearance, and record clearing all come from state law. These statutes help explain why some information is public and why other details may be withheld or routed through a clerk.
Key Statutes:
Texas Government Code Chapter 552 controls Texas Public Information Act requests to governmental bodies, subject to exceptions.
Texas Government Code Chapter 511 creates the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the state body tied to county jail standards and reporting.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 requires an arrested person to be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 49.18 governs death-in-custody investigation and reporting.
Search the Calhoun County Inmate Population
The official county route starts at the Adult Detention page and follows the Current Inmate List to the Calhoun County Adult Detention Center roster. The roster app is free, did not require a login during inspection, and offers three search paths: Inmates, Charges, and Days. It also has Current and Released modes, so a person who left custody may still be searchable for a limited period.
- Open the county-linked Calhoun County Adult Detention Center roster.
- Keep Current mode selected for present jail custody, or switch to Released if the person has left the jail.
- Use the Inmates tab for name search. The roster code starts autocomplete after two characters.
- Use Charges when the name is unclear but a charge word is known.
- Use Days for recent booking activity over a selected number of days.
- If no result appears, call the Adult Detention Center or search TDCJ, BOP, ICE, and VINELink as the custody path requires.
Calhoun County Current Inmate Lookup
The current inmates grid showed visible columns for Full Name, Age, Race, Sex, and Admit Date. Hidden or adaptive grid fields included FirstName, MiddleName, LastName, PrimaryChargeCourtType, PrimaryCharge, and ArrestingAgency. The grid did not reliably show a public booking number, bond amount, housing unit, or mugshot in the extracted fields.
The Calhoun current inmates grid is useful when the exact spelling is known and when a recent arrest has had enough time to reach the public roster. If the arrest is very recent, the person may not appear right away. The jail phone line remains the practical fallback.
The county-linked roster screenshot in the manifest comes from the public grid source at the Calhoun current inmates page.
The image shows why the roster is best read as a grid: search and filter tools sit above fields that are narrower than a full booking profile.
| Field label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current / Released | Mode toggle | No | Current is default; Released changes the search path. |
| By name | Text with autocomplete | Not stated | Autocomplete starts after two typed characters. |
| By charge description | Text with autocomplete | Not stated | Filters by charge words. |
| Over the last number of days | Number input | Not stated | Placeholder value is 5. |
| Full Name, Age, Race, Sex, Admit Date | Grid filters | No | Visible current-inmate grid columns. |
Calhoun County Released Inmate Records
The roster includes Released mode and separate released-inmate paths, including `inmates-released` and `charges-released`. The page did not state how far back released results remain available. That means a past inmate search should begin online, then move to a Texas Public Information Act request if the released mode no longer shows the person or the needed field.
For an older booking record, ask for the person by full name, admit date, date of arrest, arresting agency, and any known case number. Calhoun County did not publish a dedicated jail records request form in the inspected materials, so the request should go to the governmental body that keeps the record, usually the sheriff's office or Adult Detention Center for jail records.
Calhoun County Inmate Record Fields
A Calhoun County inmate record is more limited online than many readers expect. The extracted grid supports a quick custody check, but it does not prove that every booking field is public in the online view. Charges and arresting agency appear in the grid state as hidden or adaptive fields, so they may appear in browser detail views, but the static extraction did not confirm a full profile page.
| Field | What the research confirmed |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Visible grid column and filter field. |
| Age, Race, Sex | Visible grid columns, useful for narrowing common names. |
| Admit Date | Visible grid column with a date filter. |
| Primary Charge | Present in hidden/adaptive grid state, not confirmed as a full visible table. |
| Arresting Agency | Present in hidden/adaptive grid state. |
| Bond, housing, booking number | Not shown in the extracted current grid fields. |
| Mugshot | Not confirmed visible in the extracted current grid. |
Calhoun County Jail vs TDCJ
A county jail roster and a state prison locator answer different custody questions. The Calhoun County Adult Detention Center covers local jail custody before trial, during bond issues, on warrants, or during local sentences. TDCJ covers sentenced Texas prison custody after transfer. No TDCJ prison unit was located inside Calhoun County during the research pass.
| Question | County jail roster | TDCJ locator |
|---|---|---|
| Who is covered | Pretrial and local jail custody | Sentenced Texas prison custody |
| Agency | Calhoun County Sheriff's Office | Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
| Search fields | Name, charge description, recent days | TDCJ number, SID number, name |
| Local bond data | Call jail or check court record if not online | Not a county bond source |
State and Federal Inmate Search
If a person disappears from the Calhoun County roster after sentencing or transfer, search TDCJ first for state prison custody. For federal sentenced custody, use the BOP locator. For immigration detention, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. For custody notices, the sheriff page links Texas VINELink.
- TDCJ
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the state prison system for sentenced prisoners.
- BOP
- Federal Bureau of Prisons, used for sentenced federal inmates.
- Detainer
- A hold or notice from another agency that may affect release.
- VINELink
- A custody-notification system, not a substitute for a court or jail record.
Calhoun County Detention Facilities
The facility map contains one confirmed detention facility for this county site. Municipal agencies, including Port Lavaca Police Department, may make arrests, but the county Adult Detention page points public jail custody searches to the county jail rather than a separate city jail roster.
- Calhoun County Adult Detention Center - the county jail for adult pretrial detainees, local sentenced jail inmates, warrant holds, and short-term transfer custody.
Calhoun County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Calhoun County inmate population?
The dated TCJS report listed 85 total inmates and 144 beds for Calhoun County in August 2019. The live county-linked roster showed 75 current rows on June 29, 2026. Treat those as separate measures because one is a dated population report and one is a roster display count.
Where do I search the Calhoun County inmate population?
Start with the Calhoun County Adult Detention Center roster linked from the county Adult Detention page. Search by name, charge description, or recent days, and switch between Current and Released mode when needed.
Does Calhoun County have a state prison?
No official TDCJ prison unit was located inside Calhoun County. Once a person is sentenced to Texas prison and transferred, search the TDCJ locator rather than the county jail roster.
What if a person is not on the roster?
Call the Adult Detention Center at 361-553-4475 if the arrest is recent or the spelling is uncertain. Then check TDCJ, BOP, ICE, and VINELink based on the custody type.