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Matagorda County Jail Overview

Matagorda County Jail is operated by the Matagorda County Sheriff's Office. The researched official sources identify it as the only local detention facility for the Matagorda County page set. The sheriff's official county page names Sheriff Richard "Rick" DeLeon III and describes the Texas sheriff's local role, including management and operation of the county jail, enforcement of state criminal law, service of warrants and civil papers, and court security. County sources did not publish a separate public jail street address in the material inspected, so the official sheriff public address is used with a caveat.

The jail is a county-level detention facility, not a TDCJ prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center. It holds the local Matagorda County jail population at the county stage. That may include local male and female pretrial detainees, bench-warrant detainees, parole violators, local sentenced inmates, state-jail-felony categories, paper-ready transfer categories, and other categories reported in TCJS monthly data. Sentenced state prisoners should be searched through TDCJ after transfer, while federal or immigration custody requires BOP or ICE tools.

Matagorda County Jail Population

The best current capacity and population source is the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. In the Matagorda County row dated 2026-06-01, TCJS reported a rated capacity of 192 beds, a total jail population of 122, and occupancy at 63.54% of capacity. The related incarceration-rate workbook reported an ADP of 122 and a countywide population of 36,391 for that same date. These are official population snapshots, not a live inmate roster.

The June 2026 nonzero TCJS category entries show that local male pretrial felons and local male pretrial state-jail-felony detainees made up large parts of the jail population. Smaller categories included bench warrants, parole violations, convicted transfer-related categories, and local female pretrial felony detainees. No official annual booking count or average length of stay was found in the county sources reviewed for this project.

Look Up Matagorda County Jail Inmates

The correct local lookup route is the county Public Record Search page, which links to the Tyler/Odyssey Jail Records category. The Tyler landing page also exposes Jail Bond Records and Incident Records. The direct jail-records route is official, but the research environment hit AWS human verification, so exact public field labels and profile fields were not captured. The practical route is still clear: start with the county jail records link, use the jail bond records path for bond-specific questions, and call the jail if the portal does not show what is needed.

1. Open the Matagorda County Public Record Search page and select Jail Records.
2. If the Tyler/Odyssey search page loads, search with the visible controls and compare names carefully.
3. Use the Jail Bond Records category when the question is bond or release status.
4. Call 979-241-3275 if the portal requires verification, the booking is new, or the information is unclear.
5. For records not online, use the written Public Information Act process instead of trying to make a phone request.

The county's Tyler/Odyssey landing page shows the local record categories used for jail, bond, incident, criminal, civil, probate, and calendar records.

That portal is useful because custody questions often branch into bond records, incident records, or later court records after a booking.

Matagorda County Jail Contact

The jail phone listed in the county telephone directory is the direct current-custody fallback. Use it for questions that require live confirmation, including whether a person is currently held, what identifier is needed for commissary deposits, whether a hold affects release, and what to confirm before visiting or sending mail. The sheriff main line is the broader agency route for sheriff office business, warrants, civil papers, and records questions that are not answered by the jail line.

The researched official sources did not publish jail lobby hours, intake hours, a records counter schedule, or a separate detention-entrance address. Call before traveling for bond, property, visitation, or records business.

Matagorda County Jail Visitation

Official Matagorda County sources were thin on visitation. The sheriff page reviewed for this project did not publish an in-person visitation schedule, video visitation platform, visitor ID rules, dress code, child-visitor rules, attorney visit procedures, locker rules, holiday changes, or lockdown policy. Those facts should not be invented. The local instruction supported by the research is to call the jail line or sheriff main line before planning a visit.

Money and Mail at Matagorda County Jail

Commissary deposits are the strongest published inmate-service detail. The sheriff page states that money can be deposited to an inmate's commissary account by calling 866-345-1884, using AccessCorrections.com, or using the kiosk in the jail lobby. The depositor needs the inmate's name, SO number, and date of birth. Those same identifiers are useful when calling the jail or filing a records request because they help distinguish people with similar names.

Mail rules were not published in the official pages inspected. No mail address format, book rule, photo rule, scanned-mail vendor, phone vendor, tablet system, or phone-rate table was located. Call 979-241-3275 before mailing anything or funding a phone account.

Booking at Matagorda County Jail

Matagorda County did not publish a local step-by-step booking manual in the inspected official pages. The county jail process should be described as the standard Texas county jail intake path, localized to the Matagorda County Sheriff's Office. After arrest by a sheriff deputy, city police officer, constable, DPS trooper, or other authorized officer, the person may be taken to the jail for identity checks, property inventory, booking entry, search and security processing, and medical or classification screening. A jail record is created if the person is accepted into custody.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 connects the arrest and jail stage to the first appearance and bond process. Jail bond records may show bond-related jail information, but formal court records should be checked separately after prosecutor review. The District Attorney may file charges that differ from the booking charge, and the clerk record becomes the main case record after filing.

Matagorda County Jail Records Requests

For jail records, booking records, mugshots, arrest reports, or incident records not visible online, the official local fallback is a written Public Information Act request. Matagorda County centralizes county PIA requests through the County Attorney route. Requests may be emailed to mcpir@co.matagorda.tx.us, mailed or hand delivered to Matt Sloan, Matagorda County Attorney, PIA Request, 1700 7th Street, Room 305, Bay City, TX 77414, faxed to 979-244-7647, or submitted through the county page option. The county says telephone requests are not PIA requests.

The Matagorda County PIA page gives the written-request routes and policy references for county public records.

Use clerk records first for formal court files, because the county PIA page says public court records maintained by clerks do not require a PIA request.

Matagorda County Jail Standards

Matagorda County Jail is regulated under the Texas Commission on Jail Standards framework. Texas Government Code Chapter 511 creates and governs TCJS, and Texas Administrative Code Title 37, Part 9 contains the minimum jail standards framework. The TCJS non-compliant jails page was checked during research, and Matagorda County was not listed on the inspected current non-compliance page. A historical TCJS Matagorda non-compliance letter from September 2022 exists, but the research notes that the scanned text should be visually reviewed before quoting exact findings.