Jim Hogg County Jail Overview
Jim Hogg County Jail is the county jail and local detention facility operated by the Jim Hogg County Sheriff's Department. The sheriff page lists the jail and sheriff department at 211 E Galbraith St., Hebbronville, Texas 78361, with the office phone number and sheriff email. The same county source names Erasmo Alarcon Jr. as sheriff and describes core sheriff duties that include safekeeping inmates, operating the jail commissary, providing courthouse security, serving process, and accepting bail for prisoners in the sheriff's custody.
The facility is a TCJS-regulated adult county jail, not a state prison and not a federal detention center. It may hold people booked on local charges, people waiting for court, convicted misdemeanants serving local jail time, TDCJ-sentenced prisoners waiting on transfer, state-jail felony holds, parole or blue warrant holds, and contract inmates. That mix matters. A person housed at Jim Hogg County Jail is not always a new Jim Hogg County arrestee, and a person arrested in Jim Hogg County may later move to TDCJ, BOP, ICE, or another agency's custody.
Jim Hogg County Jail Capacity
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports are the official source for current county jail capacity and population figures. The Jim Hogg row in the June 1, 2026 TCJS population spreadsheet reports a rated capacity of 64 beds, a total jail population of 46, and use at 71.875 percent of capacity. TCJS data is reported by county jail and facility departments, so the figures should be read as a current official reporting snapshot rather than a permanent daily count.
TCJS also reported 26 contract inmates in the same June 2026 row. Contract-inmate categories mean part of the Jim Hogg County Jail population may be held under another county or agency arrangement instead of a local Jim Hogg case. The spreadsheet categories include local and contract pretrial misdemeanants and felons, convicted misdemeanants, TDCJ-sentenced holds, state-jail felony holds, and parole or blue warrant categories. A custody call should ask who holds the person, which court or agency controls release, and whether another hold would remain after local bond is posted.
The TCJS population page is one of the source pages captured for the county inmate population research. The TCJS population reports page shows where the monthly county jail spreadsheet is posted.
The TCJS report helps separate current capacity and population data from older construction history and from day-to-day booking questions.
Look Up Jim Hogg County Jail Custody
No official Jim Hogg County online jail roster, current booking list, mugshot gallery, released-inmate list, vendor inmate portal, sheriff app roster, or public jail search form was located in the official county and sheriff sources reviewed for this build. The correct county-jail lookup path is direct contact with the sheriff department, followed by a written Texas Public Information Act request when a document or releasable booking record is needed. For a broader explanation of local booking records, use the Jim Hogg County jail inmate records page.
- Call the Jim Hogg County Sheriff Department at (361) 527-4140 and ask for current custody confirmation.
- Give the person's full name, date of birth if known, and an arrest date or rough booking date.
- Ask whether the person is housed at Jim Hogg County Jail, released, transferred, bonded out, or held for another agency.
- Ask what public booking details can be released, such as booking date, general charge, bond, court, and hold status.
- If written proof is needed, email sheriff@co.jim-hogg.tx.us or send a public-information request to the sheriff department.
Use the TDCJ inmate search only for sentenced Texas prisoners or people transferred into state custody. TDCJ is not the Jim Hogg County Jail roster. The TDCJ inmate information page also describes online, email, and phone lookup paths for state prisoners. Use the BOP inmate locator for federal prisoners and ICE ODLS for immigration detainees. VINELink Texas may help with custody notifications, but it should be treated as a notification and secondary search channel rather than the county's own roster.
Note: A person may leave the county jail lookup path after bond, release, transfer, state sentencing, federal custody, or immigration detention.
Jim Hogg County Jail Contact
The sheriff department contact point is the practical starting point for current custody, public booking information, bond questions, mail questions, and visit confirmation. The county courthouse is listed elsewhere at 102 E Tilley, but the jail and sheriff department address for detention business is on E Galbraith Street. That distinction is important for families who are trying to find a person in custody and also need court or clerk records in the same trip.
Jim Hogg County Jail
Jim Hogg County Sheriff Department
211 E Galbraith St.
Hebbronville, TX 78361
(361) 527-4140
sheriff@co.jim-hogg.tx.us
Public lobby hours and booking-desk hours were not published in the official source located.
The official sheriff page is also useful because it confirms the sheriff department's jail role. The county source identifies jail safekeeping, commissary, bail acceptance for prisoners in custody, courthouse security, and service of process as sheriff functions.
Because the page does not publish a roster or detention division schedule, a phone call is the safest first step before travel, mail, money, or a formal records request.
Jim Hogg County Jail Visits
Official county-level visitation rules were not located for Jim Hogg County Jail. No public schedule, visitor approval form, photo-ID rule, dress code, child visitor rule, visit length, remote video vendor, attorney-visit policy, or holiday schedule was published on the official sheriff page reviewed in the research. Do not assume a normal weekly visit slot is available. Call the sheriff department before arriving, and confirm whether the person is eligible for a visit that day.
| Visit Topic | Published Status | Practical Check |
|---|---|---|
| In-person public visits | Not published in official sources found | Call (361) 527-4140 before travel. |
| Remote video visits | No confirmed vendor or portal located | Do not create an account until the jail confirms the method. |
| Visitor approval and ID | No form or rule sheet located | Ask what ID and approval steps are required. |
| Attorney visits | No policy posted online | Counsel should coordinate directly with jail staff. |
| Holiday or lockdown changes | No public schedule located | Confirm the same day if travel is planned. |
Even when a visit is allowed, jail staff may need to account for court transport, classification, medical status, staffing, security restrictions, or another agency hold. A short call can prevent a failed trip to Hebbronville. It can also clarify whether the person has been transferred from Jim Hogg County Jail to another jail, TDCJ, federal custody, or ICE custody.
Jim Hogg County Jail Mail Money
The sheriff page states that jail commissary is one of the sheriff's responsibilities, but no commissary vendor, online deposit portal, kiosk, phone deposit method, walk-in retailer, money-order instruction, fee schedule, spending limit, tablet program, phone vendor, or video vendor was located in official online sources. The safest instruction is to call before sending anything. That includes mail, money, books, photos, legal mail, or any item that might be rejected by jail policy.
| Service | What Was Confirmed | What to Ask Before Acting |
|---|---|---|
| Inmate mail | No official mail format located | Ask whether to include the inmate name, booking number, and jail address. |
| Phone or video | No provider confirmed | Ask whether calls, video, or tablets are available and how accounts are opened. |
| Commissary money | Sheriff duty confirmed, vendor not published | Ask about accepted deposit types, fees, and spending limits. |
| Money orders | No instruction published | Ask whether money orders are accepted and how they must be made payable. |
| Clerk payment link | Certified Payments appears on a clerk page | Do not treat it as jail bond or inmate money unless the sheriff confirms it. |
A conservative mail question should include whether the jail accepts letters, postcards, photos, books from a publisher, legal mail, and scanned mail. If staff provides an inmate mail format, use the exact format they give. Do not add a vendor name or deposit method from another Texas county, even if that vendor is common elsewhere.
Jim Hogg County Jail Booking
Booking at a Texas county jail usually begins with identity confirmation, charge and warrant entry, property intake, medical screening, classification, and placement into a housing area. The record may also show a court, bond, hold, arresting agency, and release status. Jim Hogg County does not expose those booking fields through an online roster in the sources reviewed, so the public must ask the sheriff department what information can be released by phone and what requires a written request under the Texas Public Information Act.
The state jail oversight context is specific. A TCJS notice dated January 6, 2026, tied to a December 19, 2025 inspection and review, cited minimum standard 273.2(12). The issue involved qualified medical-professional review of prescription medication after an inmate was transferred from Jim Wells to Jim Hogg with a form noting prescription medication. That official notice should be read narrowly as a documented compliance item about medication-review procedure, not as a broad claim about all medical care at the jail.
- Hold
- A hold means another court, agency, warrant, parole matter, federal case, or immigration matter may affect release.
- Classification
- Classification is the jail's process for deciding housing and supervision based on safety, charge, health, and custody factors.
- PR bond
- A personal recognizance bond releases a person on a written promise to appear when a court allows it.
Jim Hogg County Jail Bond
The official sheriff page states that the sheriff accepts bail for prisoners in custody. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 17.15 governs bail-setting rules, including the amount of bail and factors considered by the court or magistrate. No online jail bond-payment portal, bond schedule, payment-type list, bond-window hours, or cashier instructions were located for Jim Hogg County Jail. The Certified Payments link found on a clerk page should not be labeled as a jail bond path unless the sheriff or court confirms it.
Before trying to post bond, call the sheriff department and confirm the person is in custody, the exact charge or holds, the bond amount by charge, the bond type accepted, and whether another agency hold prevents release. Cash bond, surety bond through a licensed bail bond company, personal bond, property bond, and no-bond status are different outcomes. A person may have one charge with bond and another hold that still prevents release.
Jim Hogg County Jail History
An official February 8, 2010 U.S. House release announced more than $5.2 million in USDA Rural Development funding for a new Jim Hogg County jail, detention, and law-enforcement center in Hebbronville. The release described a 48-bed jail and a 20,613-square-foot facility. It also said the older jail and law-enforcement offices were in an older bank building that was over capacity and had security issues.
The 2010 construction announcement and the current TCJS capacity figure are related, but they are not the same fact. The construction release described the project at that time as 48 beds. The TCJS June 2026 spreadsheet reports current rated capacity as 64 beds. Use the date with each number so the jail history does not blur into the current population report.
The congressional funding release is one of the archived sources used for the facility history. The official release on the new jail funding documents the USDA grant and loan package and the older bank-building concern.
That history explains why the modern jail page should distinguish building history, current TCJS capacity, and live custody questions.
Jim Hogg County Jail Directions
The jail and sheriff department are at 211 E Galbraith St. in Hebbronville. Drivers coming from the north or south can use TX-16 into Hebbronville and then local streets toward the central sheriff and courthouse area. Drivers coming from the east or west can use TX-285 into town, then proceed toward E Galbraith Street. The county courthouse and many court offices are at or near 102 E Tilley, which is not the same address as the jail.
Parking instructions, public transit details, ADA entrance information, public lobby hours, and separate intake entrance directions were not published in the official sheriff source located. Call before traveling for visitation, bond, inmate property, custody confirmation, or records questions. That is especially important if the person may have been transported to court, moved to TDCJ, released, or held for another agency.
Jim Hogg County Jail Standards
Texas county jails operate under state jail standards and public-information laws. Texas Local Government Code Section 351.041 places custody of the county jail and prisoners with the sheriff. Texas Government Code Section 511.009 gives the Texas Commission on Jail Standards authority over minimum jail standards. The Texas Public Information Act provides the public-records framework for requests to government bodies, with law-enforcement, privacy, medical, juvenile, and security limits where they apply.
For Jim Hogg County Jail records, a request should be specific. Include the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date or booking date if known, and the type of record sought. Useful request terms include booking confirmation, bond information, public charge information, incident or arrest report, booking photo, or jail roster confirmation. The sheriff email listed for the department is sheriff@co.jim-hogg.tx.us.
Note: Confirm custody, visit rules, mail rules, and money instructions with the jail before relying on any outside source.