Jim Wells County Jail Inmate Lookup

Jim Wells County Jail Overview

Jim Wells County Jail is operated by the Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department. Sheriff Joseph Guy Baker is the sheriff identified on the sheriff and county pages, and the public jail lookup path begins with the sheriff's jail page. The jail holds male and female county inmates, including people awaiting magistrate or court action, people held on local warrants, people serving local county sentences, and people waiting on release, bond, transfer, or another agency's decision.

The address record needs careful handling because two official county sources point to nearby downtown Alice addresses. The county sheriff page lists the sheriff department physical address as 300 N. Cameron Street, Alice, Texas 78332. Jim Wells County's inmate-healthcare RFP identifies the jail as located at 300 N. Almond, Alice, Texas 78332. Treat those as official-source differences rather than a typo to erase. If a visit, delivery, attorney meeting, or in-person records question depends on the correct door, call the jail before leaving.

The facility is a county jail, not a TDCJ prison. People sentenced to Texas state prison after a Jim Wells County case move into the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system and should be checked through TDCJ instead of the county roster. No Texas state prison, Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, or ICE detention center was found physically inside Jim Wells County in the official facility sources reviewed.

The Jim Wells County sheriff profile page is the official county source for the sheriff's physical address, phone, fax, and office hours.

That county page is why the public contact block below uses 300 N. Cameron Street for the sheriff department while also preserving the RFP's 300 N. Almond jail reference.

Jim Wells County Jail Capacity and Population

The strongest official population number located for Jim Wells County Jail is from the county's inmate-healthcare RFP. That RFP says the jail houses male and female inmates and reported an average daily population of 80 over the prior 12 months. The same materials told proposers to base the following year's medical-services proposal on an ADP of 80. No official rated-capacity number was located in the county pages or Texas Commission on Jail Standards materials reviewed for this build.

The county bidding page is the county source that led to the inmate-healthcare RFP and the jail's ADP planning figure.

The ADP number is useful for understanding facility scale, but it is not the same thing as a live population count or a rated bed capacity.

Jim Wells Jail Inmate Lookup

The official online path starts with the sheriff's jail page and its link to the current jail roster at jwcs.mvl-dev.com. Use that roster first for a person who may currently be held in Jim Wells County Jail. The sheriff's jail page adds a local mobile note: Apple or Android users who do not have Chrome may need to download Chrome to view the roster properly.

1. Open the Jim Wells County sheriff jail page and select the current jail roster link.
2. Search or browse the current roster by name if the portal presents a search field.
3. Open the matching profile or roster entry and confirm that the person is listed in current Jim Wells County custody.
4. Review any displayed booking date, charge, bond, arresting agency, or booking-photo fields cautiously, because the sheriff page does not publish a fixed field list.
5. If the roster will not load on a phone or tablet, retry in Chrome as the sheriff page instructs.
6. If the person is missing, call 361-668-0341, use a county public-information request for records not online, and check TDCJ, BOP, or ICE only when the custody type points away from the county jail.

The sheriff jail page is the source for the current roster link and the Chrome-on-mobile notice.

Because the roster screenshot, not a separate jail manual, is the source for that notice, it should be treated as a practical access instruction rather than a guarantee about every mobile browser.

Jim Wells County Jail Address and Contact

For custody confirmation, roster problems, visitor-entry questions, mail rules, and local records routing, use the sheriff/jail phone published by Jim Wells County. The county page lists office hours for the sheriff department as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Jail custody functions continue outside public-office hours, but no separate public booking-desk number was located.

The county public-information route is separate from the jail roster. Jim Wells County directs public-information requests to the County of Jim Wells Record Request Department at 200 N. Almond Street, Alice, Texas 78332, with fax 361-661-1372. Use that channel for public booking records, jail records, arrest reports, or mugshots that are not available through the current roster, while understanding that Texas public-records exceptions can still apply.

Visiting Someone at Jim Wells County Jail

No official Jim Wells County jail visitation schedule, video-visit provider, visitor entrance rule, locker rule, dress code, child-visitor rule, or holiday/lockdown notice was located in the sheriff or county pages reviewed. That absence matters. Do not rely on generic Texas jail schedules or third-party listings for Jim Wells County Jail. Call 361-668-0341 before traveling, and ask whether the person is eligible for visits, what entrance to use, what identification is required, and whether any housing, medical, disciplinary, court, or transfer status affects visiting.

Jim Wells Jail Mail Money

Official online materials did not identify a commissary vendor, money-deposit URL, phone provider, tablet provider, lobby kiosk, deposit-by-phone option, inmate-mail format, scanned-mail policy, or fee schedule for Jim Wells County Jail. That means the correct public guidance is to confirm these services through the jail before sending anything. Do not send money through an unofficial site merely because it lists the county name, and do not address mail using a booking-number format unless jail staff confirms the required format.

Jim Wells Jail Booking Intake

A Jim Wells County booking can begin with a sheriff's deputy, Alice Police Department officer, DPS trooper, constable, or another law-enforcement agency. If the person is not released at the scene or by citation, the officer may transport the person to the county jail for intake. The jail records identity, arresting agency, charge or warrant basis, property, medical needs, mental-health concerns, custody status, and other intake information. Fingerprints and a booking photograph are normally part of the jail-booking process, but public access to those items depends on the roster and the Texas Public Information Act process.

Texas arrest procedure also sends the case toward a magistrate and bond decision. The roster may show a charge label or bond amount, but it should not be treated as the final filed court charge. For court charges after jail arrest, use the Jim Wells County court portal and the proper clerk office. A new booking may take time to appear online, and the sheriff page did not publish a roster refresh interval.

Medical, Mental-Health, and Jail Standards

Jim Wells County's inmate-healthcare RFP gives more detail about medical and mental-health services than the public jail page does. The RFP required comprehensive healthcare services for the jail population, including management, physician and medical services, nursing, dental, pharmacy, medical records, lab, x-ray, and on-site routine medical services. It also required 24/7 on-site medical care including mental healthcare in compliance with Texas Commission on Jail Standards requirements.

Those RFP details do not create a public sick-call schedule or identify a private medical vendor to contact from outside the jail. They do show that healthcare is part of the county's jail operation and that medical, mental-health, and recordkeeping services are expected to be accountable to Jim Wells County and the sheriff. For a family member with an urgent medical or mental-health concern, the practical route remains the jail phone at 361-668-0341.

Not in Jim Wells Jail

If a person is not listed on the current Jim Wells County roster, first confirm spelling, recent booking timing, and release or transfer possibilities by calling the sheriff/jail. If the arrest happened in Alice and the person was held beyond brief police processing, the county jail is still the likely local custody point, because no separate official Alice municipal jail roster was found. If the person has been sentenced to state prison, use the TDCJ inmate search. TDCJ records are for sentenced state prisoners, not new county jail detainees.

For federal custody, the BOP inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present, but federal pretrial detainees may not appear there before sentencing. Immigration detention questions should be checked through ICE ODLS, using either A-number and country of birth or biographical details when available. Texas VINELink can help with custody notifications, but it does not replace the sheriff roster, court portal, or state and federal locators.

About Jim Wells County Jail

Jim Wells County Jail sits within the statewide Texas county-jail oversight framework. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards is the state regulator for county jails, including standards tied to construction, maintenance, operations, classification, supervision, sanitation, food, medical care, mental-health screening, records, and population reporting. TCJS context matters because the Jim Wells County Jail's local policies are not the only rules governing the facility.

Local public information is uneven. The sheriff site publishes the current roster path and main contact information, and the county RFP supplies population and healthcare-service details. It does not publish a complete visitor handbook, commissary page, mail rule, phone contract, rated capacity, annual booking count, or roster retention policy. Where the official record is silent, the safest approach is to call the jail, use the county public-information request process, or check the appropriate state, federal, or immigration locator.