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Deaf Smith County Jail Overview

The Deaf Smith County Jail and Sheriff's Office is operated by the Deaf Smith County Sheriff's Office. It is the primary local booking and holding facility for adults arrested in Deaf Smith County by sheriff deputies, Hereford police, DPS officers, warrant officers, and other authorized local or state officers. The facility handles local pretrial custody, short county sentences, local warrants, and holds for other agencies.

The sheriff and county publish the same public address for the complex: 235 E. 3rd St, Room 102, Hereford, TX 79045. The county sheriff page identifies Sheriff J. Dale Butler and links to VINELink. The standalone sheriff website links the jail roster PDF, JailFunds for commissary deposits, Encartele for telephone funds, employment information, and MobilePatrol.

Deaf Smith County Jail Capacity

Capacity is a major part of this facility's story. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards 2022 Annual Report lists the Deaf Smith County Jail and Sheriff's Office project at 196 beds. TCJS planning and construction materials from March 2022 showed the project under construction. Earlier TCJS incarceration-rate reports showed the older 93-bed jail capacity, while the August 2022 report showed 289 countywide capacity during the transition from old to new space.

The transition figures should not be blended into one unsupported live capacity claim. The clean facility-specific figure is the 196-bed new jail project. The 289 figure appears to reflect old capacity plus new project capacity during the opening period.

Who Is Held at Deaf Smith Jail

The Deaf Smith County Jail and Sheriff's Office holds adults booked after local arrest, pretrial defendants who have not bonded out, misdemeanor-sentenced inmates, people arrested on warrants, and people held for local or state agencies. It is not a TDCJ prison unit, and official TDCJ directories do not list a state prison unit in Deaf Smith County. It is also not a BOP prison or a standalone ICE detention center.

The March 17, 2025 ICE 287(g) Warrant Service Officer agreement is a relevant local detail because it allows trained local personnel to serve ICE administrative warrants in defined jail circumstances. It does not change the lookup rule. Immigration detention searches still use ICE ODLS, and federal prisoner searches still use BOP or federal court/USMS channels.

Look Up Deaf Smith County Jail Inmates

The correct lookup tool for this county jail is the official sheriff jail roster PDF, supported by the jail phone line, VINELink, MobilePatrol, and written records requests. The roster is not an interactive database. It is a PDF document, and the research found it to be image-based, so a browser search may miss a name.

1. Open the Deaf Smith County Sheriff's Office homepage.
2. Select the official JAIL ROSTER PDF.
3. Try PDF search for the last name, then scan manually if the file has no OCR text.
4. Call 806-364-2311 if the booking is new, the person may have bonded out, or the roster is unclear.
5. Use VINELink for custody notifications and MobilePatrol as a supplemental sheriff-promoted app channel.

Deaf Smith Jail Contact Source

The official sheriff contact page provides the jail and sheriff address, phone, fax, email, and map context for the Hereford courthouse block.

Use that contact information for custody confirmation, records requests, visit questions, mail questions, and property issues before traveling to the facility.

Deaf Smith County Jail Address

The jail and sheriff's office share the published county contact information. Official sources did not publish a separate jail records counter schedule, so a call before travel is important.

Visiting Deaf Smith County Jail

No official Deaf Smith County visitation schedule, dress code, child-visitor rule, video-visit vendor, attorney-visit schedule, or prohibited-item list was located in the county and sheriff sources reviewed. That gap should remain visible to readers. Call the jail before arriving, and do not rely on third-party jail directories for day or time claims.

Mail Phone and Money at Deaf Smith Jail

The sheriff homepage publishes deposit and telephone account links, but no complete mail rule sheet, commissary fee table, phone rate sheet, lobby kiosk policy, or money-order rule was located. The safest process is to confirm the person is still in custody, then use the sheriff-linked vendor path for the right service.

Booking Bond and Release

Booking at the Deaf Smith County Jail and Sheriff's Office normally includes identity checks, warrant checks, property inventory, fingerprints, a booking photograph, medical and mental-health screening, and housing classification. Texas county jail standards apply through Local Government Code Chapter 351 and Government Code Chapter 511, so intake and custody are part of a statewide jail-standards framework.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 17 governs bail. No Deaf Smith County online bond payment page or official bond fee schedule was located. Call the jail to confirm whether the person has a cash bond, surety bond, personal bond, no-bond hold, warrant, parole hold, federal hold, immigration hold, or other detainer. Court records will show filed charges and later bond orders after the case opens.

Deaf Smith Jail Standards and Conditions

The research did not locate an official county jail program menu for GED, substance-abuse treatment, work release, tablets, religious services, grievances, medical requests, or mental-health services. Those services should not be invented. Texas Commission on Jail Standards materials do provide the statewide governance context for construction, maintenance, supervision, health services, sanitation, discipline, commissary, and inmate rights.

The sheriff homepage states that the new Sheriff's Office and Jail is now open, and TCJS materials document the recent 196-bed construction project. Local news reports described staffing delays during the opening period, but official TCJS and county sources should carry the capacity and facility-status claims.

State Federal and ICE Transfer Paths

A person can leave the Deaf Smith County Jail lookup path after sentencing or transfer. Sentenced Texas prisoners use the TDCJ inmate search after transfer. Federal defendants from Deaf Smith County fall in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas and may involve USMS before BOP designation. Immigration detainees use ICE ODLS, even when an ICE-related administrative warrant is served locally under the 287(g) WSO agreement.