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Medina County Jail Records

Medina County Jail is operated by the Medina County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff page lists Randy Brown as sheriff and separates the jail address from the administrative sheriff's office address. That distinction matters because the jail is the active custody facility, while administrative and records questions may route through weekday sheriff office staff. The jail holds people booked after local arrests by sheriff deputies, Hondo-area law enforcement, and other agencies using the Medina County custody system.

The facility is used for pretrial misdemeanor and felony defendants, local sentenced inmates, state-jail-felony categories, parole-violator categories, TDCJ transfer categories, and other holds reported to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. It is not a TDCJ prison unit. Sentenced state prisoners in Medina County are searched through the TDCJ inmate locator after transfer, while recent local bookings should be checked through Medina County Jail first.

The Medina County Sheriff page is the official local source for the jail phone, jail fax, staff names, NCIC inmate messaging, physical mail rules, and the Texas Integrated Victim Services System link. No official online Medina County Jail roster or public mugshot gallery was located in the research. That absence is the main feature of the lookup process: start with the jail phone and then use records or Texas Public Information Act channels when a record copy is needed.

The official sheriff page shows the jail and custody contacts used for Medina County inmate records. The screenshot comes from the Medina County Sheriff official page.

The page is useful because it confirms the jail phone, NCIC messaging direction, IVSS link, and sheriff staff structure in one local source.

Medina County Jail Capacity

The strongest official population source for Medina County Jail is the Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports. In the June 2026 County Jail Population workbook, TCJS listed Medina County with a rated capacity of 193 beds and a total jail population of 135 on June 1, 2026. That is 69.95 percent of rated capacity. TCJS data is submitted by county jail facilities, so the workbook is best used as a dated snapshot rather than a promise about a person's current location.

Recent TCJS rows show Medina County Jail below rated capacity in each extracted 2025 and 2026 month, ranging from about 66 percent to 82 percent of capacity. That does not prove that every housing unit or classification group had open space. It only describes the countywide total in the TCJS report. The June 2026 row included local male and female pretrial felons, Class A and B misdemeanor pretrial inmates, state-jail-felony pretrial categories, parole-related holds, and people sentenced to TDCJ divisions but still reported in county jail custody.

Search Medina County Jail Custody

No official Medina County online jail roster, current-inmate search, recent-booking report, or booking-photo gallery was located. The sheriff page publishes a 24-hour jail phone line and records-related staff, so Medina County Jail inmate lookup should lead with direct custody confirmation. For a recent arrest, call the jail before assuming the person will appear in a public web search. A person may still be in booking, in transit, at a hospital, held by another agency, released, or moved to a state or federal channel.

1. Call Medina County Jail at 830-741-6058 for current custody status and recent booking questions.
2. Have the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, arresting agency, and approximate arrest date or time.
3. For a booking record, mugshot, warrant detail, or older release record, call the sheriff administrative office during business hours and ask for records routing.
4. If staff require a written request, use the Texas Public Information Act path and the county public-information email published by the DA page.
5. If the person has been sentenced to state prison, search TDCJ instead of the county jail.

Victim notification and custody-status monitoring can also use the sheriff-linked Texas Integrated Victim Services System or VINELink. IVSS is not a substitute for a jail records request, but it can help with alerts when custody status changes. For a person who may have gone to federal custody, use BOP or ICE locators rather than the county jail once a federal or immigration transfer is confirmed.

Medina County Jail Contact

The jail address is the right public contact point for custody questions, while the sheriff office address is the administrative location. The sheriff page lists jail operations as 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It also lists administrative office hours as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For routine records, warrant, or public-information routing, those weekday hours are more realistic than the 24-hour custody phone.

Research identified Heather Carreon as Records Clerk, Dana Toles and Mariela Flores as Warrant and Extradition Clerks, and Sarah Bernal as Jail Commissary Clerk. Those names support a more precise phone request, but callers should still use the main published numbers unless county staff give a direct extension. The Medina County Criminal District Attorney page also publishes public-info-requests@medinatx.gov as a public-information request channel and notes that fax public-information requests are not accepted by that office after January 1, 2024.

Medina County Jail Visits

No official Medina County Jail visitation schedule, visitor ID rule, dress code, child visitor rule, attorney visit policy, video visit vendor, or visit length was located in official online sources. That gap should be treated plainly. The jail phone is the official starting point before a visit. Call before arrival to confirm whether visits are in person or remote, whether the person is eligible for visits, what identification is required, where visitors enter, and whether any temporary limits are in effect.

Visitors should not rely on a general Texas jail rule or a third-party listing for this facility. Local jail schedules can change due to staffing, classification, housing moves, medical status, disciplinary restrictions, court transport, or security needs. Attorney and professional visits may use separate rules from family visits, and those rules were not published in the research source set.

Medina County Jail Mail

The sheriff page gives one clear local mail and messaging rule: documents, photos, and mail to inmates should use the new Inmate Messaging system at NCIC.com. It also links an NCIC Mail Rules PDF for physical inmate mail and states that there will be no exceptions. Because the PDF controls the physical-mail process, mailers should check the current rule sheet before sending paper mail, photos, or documents.

Money and commissary details were thinner than the mail rules. The research did not locate an official Medina County Jail deposit fee schedule, kiosk instruction page, online commissary limit, or accepted payment list. For commissary or deposit questions, call the jail or sheriff administrative office and ask for current instructions. Do not send cash or money orders unless the jail confirms that format and the required inmate identifiers.

Medina County Jail Booking

Medina County does not publish a detailed booking-process page, so the safest description is a Texas county-jail intake process localized to the jail contacts. After a local arrest, the person is typically taken to Medina County Jail for identity confirmation, fingerprinting, booking-photo procedures, property inventory, warrant checks, medical and mental-health screening, classification, and housing assignment. Phone access may depend on booking completion, security status, and jail rules.

Jail records and court records are separate tracks. A booking reflects custody and the arresting basis. The court case reflects charges filed later by prosecutors and tracked by court clerks. If a reader needs the filed case after booking, the county court-record route is different from the jail custody route. For current custody and local jail record questions, Medina County jail inmate records should start with the sheriff and jail channels.

Booking

Jail intake after arrest, including identification, property, screening, and custody entry.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that may affect release.

Pretrial

Custody before conviction on the pending charge.

TDCJ transfer

Movement from county jail to state prison after a qualifying sentence and processing.

Medina County Jail Limits

The research did not locate local pages for jail programs, work release, GED classes, tablet programs, medical vendor details, pod layout, public parking, visitor entrance, ADA entrance, or building history. Those items should not be guessed from other Texas counties. The official facts available for Medina County Jail are stronger on contacts, staff roles, NCIC messaging, IVSS, 24-hour jail operation, and TCJS population reporting than on visitor and commissary detail.

For conditions and oversight context, TCJS regulates Texas county jails under state law. Texas Government Code Chapter 511 governs TCJS authority and population reporting, while Texas Local Government Code Chapter 351 addresses county jails and the sheriff's role as keeper of the jail. Those laws do not create a public local roster by themselves. They explain why capacity and oversight data are available even when the county does not publish a web-based jail roster.