Lookup Lavaca County Jail Inmates

Lavaca County Jail Overview

Lavaca County Jail is the only mapped detention facility in the local research. It is a county jail, not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. The operator is the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office. The official sheriff page lists the office and jail at 38 FM 318, P.O. Box 373, Hallettsville, TX 77964, with the jail phone at 361-798-2420, the sheriff main phone at 361-798-2121, and fax at 361-798-4468.

The jail serves local arrest and detention needs for Lavaca County. People booked there may include local pretrial detainees, misdemeanor inmates, felony pretrial detainees, bench-warrant inmates, parole or blue-warrant holds, and people held for other agencies when reported. City arrests from places such as Yoakum can appear in the county jail roster because the sample profile showed Yoakum PD as an arresting agency while the confining agency was Lavaca.

The Lavaca County Sheriff page is the official local hub for jail contact, the inmate search link, VINELink, and the public-records fee chart. Sheriff Steven E. Greenwell is sourced from official commissioners court minutes from December 22, 2025.

The official sheriff page screenshot shows the local source that publishes the jail phone, inmate-search link, VINELink access, and public-records fee chart link.

That page is the best starting point when a user needs the official jail roster or a direct phone fallback for Lavaca County Jail.

Lavaca County Jail Capacity

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards reports Lavaca County Jail as a 48-bed county jail. The June 1, 2026 TCJS current population row showed 39 inmates, which placed the jail at 81.25 percent occupancy. Because this is a small county jail, a change of only a few people can move the occupancy rate in a visible way. The same TCJS research also showed average daily population at 40 and an incarceration rate of 1.94 for the June 1, 2026 rate file.

The TCJS data is a population report, not a live roster. It helps explain scale and capacity, while the Lavaca County Jail portal is the route for current inmate names and booking profiles.

The official TCJS population-report page was captured as a successful manifest image. It is the source family used for the capacity and population figures above.

Use TCJS for jail-wide reporting and the county jail portal for person-level custody records.

Who Lavaca County Jail Holds

Lavaca County Jail holds local county-jail inmates, not sentenced state-prison inmates as a class. A person arrested by the sheriff's office, a city police department, DPS, a constable, or a warrant agency may be booked into the jail. The booking process creates intake data that can later appear in the public record: name, age, race, sex, admit date, admit time, confining agency, charge, bond, bond type, and arresting agency.

TCJS population categories for the June 2026 row included local pretrial Class A and B misdemeanor categories, local pretrial felony categories, parole or blue-warrant categories, bench-warrant and other reported categories, and some held-for-other-agency categories. Those are reporting categories rather than housing unit names. The research did not locate an official pod map, unit list, detention commander page, or facility history page.

Pretrial detainee

A person held before final case disposition, often while charges, bond, or court settings are pending.

Bench warrant

A court-issued warrant, often tied to failure to appear or failure to comply with a court order.

Blue warrant

A parole-related warrant or hold connected to Texas parole supervision.

Detainer

A notice or request from another agency that may affect release from local custody.

Lavaca County Jail Roster Lookup

The official Lavaca County Jail lookup is the jail portal at http://12.190.73.52/dcn/, linked from the sheriff page as "County Jail Inmate Search." The portal has Inmates, Charges, and Days search modes. The Inmates tab supports name search with autocomplete after two characters. The Charges tab supports charge-description search. The Days tab searches recent admissions over a number of days.

1. Open the sheriff page or go directly to the Lavaca County Jail portal.
2. Use Inmates to search by name, or select "View all inmates" and filter the current-inmates grid.
3. Use Charges when the offense is known but the name spelling is uncertain.
4. Use Days for recent bookings over a selected number of days.
5. Open the full-name link to view the inmate detail page and charge table.

The current-inmates grid screenshot was captured from the official county portal. It shows the visible search result fields used before opening an inmate profile.

The grid is the public roster view; the detail page supplies the richer booking, bond, and charge information when a profile link is opened.

Lavaca Jail Profile Fields

A Lavaca County Jail detail page can show more than the current-inmates grid. The research inspected a sample profile on June 30, 2026. That profile showed a mugshot link area, name, race, sex, eye color, hair color, weight, height, admit date, admit time, confining agency, charge description, offense date, court type, court date, bond, bond type, charging agency, and arresting agency. Some fields existed but were blank in the sample, including court date.

Roster data can lag when booking, release, or bond changes have just occurred. Call Lavaca County Jail at 361-798-2420 when a recent arrest does not appear, a release seems missing, or a bond entry must be confirmed before action.

Lavaca County Jail Contact

The same criminal-justice address appears in several Lavaca County records. The sheriff's office and jail are listed at 38 FM 318, and JP Precinct 1 is also listed at the Lavaca County Criminal Justice Center address. Do not confuse that location with the courthouse at 109 North LaGrange or the courthouse annex at 412 N. Texana, which are clerk and court-record locations.

Lavaca Jail Visitation Gaps

The official sheriff page did not publish a visitation schedule, visitor ID rule, dress code, child-visitor policy, attorney-visitation rule, video-visitation provider, holiday schedule, or lockdown exception rules. This is a local research gap, not a reason to borrow rules from another Texas jail. Visitors should call the jail before traveling or scheduling any visit.

Note: A current custody check should come before any trip, because release, transfer, court transport, or a hold can change the visit plan.

Lavaca Jail Mail and Commissary

The research did not locate an official mail format, commissary vendor, money-deposit provider, phone vendor, tablet provider, fee schedule, book rule, photo rule, or package rule for Lavaca County Jail. Do not assume that vendors used by larger Texas counties apply here. Call the jail before sending money, mail, books, cards, photos, or packages.

Booking and Bond at Lavaca Jail

Booking at Lavaca County Jail produces the intake fields seen on the public roster. The process can include identity entry, booking photo, physical-description fields, charge association, bond data, and the confining agency field. After arrest, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 requires a prompt magistrate appearance without unnecessary delay and generally no later than 48 hours. That early court contact is where warnings and bail issues are addressed.

Bond data on the jail profile should be confirmed before money is posted. A profile can list cash, surety, personal, or no-bond conditions, but a hold can still block release. Other-agency holds, parole warrants, bench warrants, federal custody, or ICE issues may keep a person in custody even if one local charge appears bondable. The district clerk payment bureau code in the research applies to court costs, fines, copies, and search fees, not jail bond unless the court or jail says otherwise.

Directions to Lavaca County Jail

Lavaca County Jail is at 38 FM 318 in Hallettsville. From central Hallettsville, route toward FM 318 and use a live map for the final approach. From US-77 or US-90A, connect into the local Hallettsville road grid and confirm the last turn before leaving. The research did not locate official visitor parking details, a visitor entrance map, fixed-route transit instructions, or ADA entry information.

For court records or district clerk business, the destination may be 109 N. LaGrange. For county clerk records, the destination may be 412 N. Texana. For jail visits, custody checks, bond questions, and inmate lookup fallback, use the FM 318 jail location and the jail phone.

State Federal and ICE Transfers

Lavaca County Jail is the correct first lookup for local pretrial custody. Once a person is sentenced to state prison and transferred, the county roster is no longer the main system. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search covers people currently incarcerated in TDCJ facilities. The official TDCJ unit directory did not identify a state prison physically inside Lavaca County during the research.

Federal and immigration custody use separate systems. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers sentenced federal prisoners. Federal pretrial custody is tied to the U.S. Marshals Service, and Lavaca County is in the Southern District of Texas for federal prosecution context. Immigration custody uses the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. The county roster may show a local hold or detainer, but an ICE or federal transfer should be checked through the federal locator that fits the custody type.

Lavaca Jail Records Fallback

If the Lavaca County Jail portal is down, missing a recent booking, or no longer lists a released person, use the jail phone and public-records request route. The sheriff page links a public-records fee chart and the county has an Open Records page. Frame the request under the Texas Public Information Act and identify the record type, name, booking date, arresting agency, charge, and case number if known.