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Kaufman County Detention Center Overview

Kaufman County Sheriff's Office jail information identifies the detention center as the local jail hub for inmate services, current inmates, inmate records, commissary, medical, visitation, and open records. The official name appears as Kaufman County Detention Center and Kaufman County Jail in the county materials. It is a county jail, not a TDCJ prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center. The facility holds people arrested by the sheriff, local police departments, DPS, constables, federal agencies, or other law-enforcement agencies when those people are booked into county custody.

The public detention map is simple for Kaufman County. Research did not locate a separate county annex, state prison, BOP facility, or ICE facility physically in the county. That means most local arrest and jail-record questions route back to this detention center. The custody mix is still broader than new arrests. Official population reporting and visitation groups show local pretrial detainees, county-sentenced inmates, state-jail and TDCJ-ready categories, parole or warrant holds, contract inmates, and federal or USMS detainees inside the same county jail system.

The Kaufman County Sheriff's Office homepage also places jail operations within a larger public-safety office that includes patrol, dispatch, investigations, courthouse security, sex offender registration, mental health officer functions, and public information. Those separate units matter because a custody question can touch more than one record system. A person may be on the jail roster, tied to a court case, under a warrant hold, or waiting for transfer to another agency.

The official jail information page is a useful source for facility services and mail rules.

The sheriff's main jail information page shows the jail's operational links for inmate services, mail, messaging, commissary, medical, open records, and detention contact details.

Use that page as the facility-service starting point, then use the current inmate roster for a live custody check.

Kaufman County Detention Population

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards is the official population source for county-jail counts. The TCJS June 1, 2026 current population workbook listed Kaufman County with 531 rated beds and 397 people in the total jail population. That is about 74.8 percent of rated capacity on that reporting date. The research also notes that the TCJS data is submitted by county jail agencies, may be changed over time, and is not the same thing as a live jail roster count.

TCJS category detail makes the Kaufman County Detention Center population more specific than one number. The June 1, 2026 report included local male and female pretrial felony detainees, local Class A and B misdemeanor detainees, convicted misdemeanants, bench-warrant detainees, parole violators or blue warrants, parole violators with new charges, local convicted felons sentenced to county jail time, TDCJ-sentenced categories, state-jail felony categories, other categories, contract inmates, and federal inmates. The same report showed 48 male federal inmates and 5 female federal inmates.

Another source can show a different figure because it measures a different thing on a different day. The current-inmates grid showed 419 items during the June 30, 2026 inspection, while the TCJS monthly population report showed 397 on June 1, 2026. The roster is a current web display. TCJS is a dated reporting snapshot. They should not be forced to match.

Kaufman County Detention Inmate Lookup

The correct first lookup channel for a person held at Kaufman County Detention Center is the official Kaufman County Jail search. It is free and does not require a login. The search homepage supports three paths: name search, charge-description search, and a recent-days search. The "View all inmates" link opens the current-inmates grid, while the charges link opens a current charge-description count grid. A broader explanation of the public roster appears on the Kaufman County jail inmate records page.

1. Open the official Kaufman County Jail search and choose name, charge description, or recent days.
2. Use the name autocomplete when spelling is known, or open the full current-inmates grid when spelling may vary.
3. Check visible grid fields such as full name, age, race, sex, and admit date before assuming a match.
4. Use the column chooser or filters when available to expose arresting agency, split-name fields, primary charge, and primary charge court type.
5. Call the jail or use open records when the roster does not show a person who may be newly booked, released, transferred, or held under another name.

The current inmates grid is the most concrete public roster view found in the official sources. It shows a live-style grid with filter controls, page-size choices, column chooser, export, and layout reset tools.

The grid is useful for current custody, but it is not a full criminal case file and should not be treated as proof of conviction.

Kaufman County Detention Contact

Facility contact should be used for custody status, records routing, visit questions, and jail-service questions that the website does not answer. The sheriff contact page names Sheriff Bryan W. Beavers and lists the sheriff's office and jail campus at the same public address. The site footer and jail pages list the jail/main phone as 972-932-4337, while dispatch and emergency routing are separate from routine jail records.

The sheriff website also lists fax 972-932-9751, dispatch/non-emergency 469-376-4500, and an emergency instruction to call 9-1-1. The contact form is not the emergency channel. For routine questions, use the jail phone or the official jail pages. For public records that are not visible in the roster, the sheriff open-records request page is the documented request path under the Texas Public Information Act.

Kaufman County Detention Visitation

In-person visitation at Kaufman County Detention Center is organized by housing group and federal/USMS status. The sheriff visitation page says beginning and ending times are strictly observed. Visitors must sign in early enough to receive the full 25-minute visit, with the last sign-in one-half hour before the end of the visitation block. The lobby officer cannot extend sign-in time or add a late visitor to the last group.

The official visitation rules page publishes the in-person schedule, ID rule, minor-child limits, dress rules, no-contact rule, and NCIC video visitation information.

The housing group matters. Federal Males/USMS and Federal Females/USMS have their own windows, separate from local male pod and female schedules.

Valid picture ID is required for visitors except minor children. Examples in the official rules include a driver's license, state ID card, or passport. Minor children under 17 may visit only on the listed minor-child days and must be with a parent, legal guardian, or legal counsel. No contact visits are allowed. Video visitation is through NCIC and is available daily from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. when the inmate is not restricted from visitation.

Kaufman County Detention Mail Money

The sheriff's jail pages describe several separate communication and money channels. Normal non-legal mail is handled through NCIC-style scanned mail rules, while legal and medical mail must follow the facility's separate jail guidelines. The main jail page says regular mail, except legal mail, newspapers, magazines, and bulk mail, must be mailed to the Longview scanning address. It also warns that mail processed there is destroyed after electronic processing and will not be returned or reimbursed.

The inmate services page lists NCIC phone, video, messaging, Tiger Correctional money deposits, Tiger Commissary orders, and money-order rules for Kaufman County Detention Center.

Before mailing or sending funds, confirm the person's custody status and SO number through the roster or jail because the mail format depends on identity details.

Kaufman County Detention Intake

Official county pages do not publish a full booking-process manual, so the safest description uses the public roster fields and Texas criminal procedure. A person may be arrested by the Sheriff's Office, a city police department, DPS, a constable, a federal agency, or another law-enforcement agency, then taken to the Kaufman County Detention Center or another holding point for processing. Intake can include identity checks, warrant checks, property handling, fingerprints, booking photo when applicable, medical or mental-health screening, classification, and assignment to a housing group.

The roster shows an admit date, not a full booking timestamp. A new arrest may not appear right away if the person is still being processed, is still at a municipal station, is in court, is at a hospital, is under an alias, or has already been released. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 then governs the magistrate warning and initial appearance process after arrest. At that stage, rights, counsel, and bail may be addressed. Booking charges and later filed court charges are related, but they are not the same record.

Booking

Jail intake after arrest, usually tied to identity, charge, property, and custody checks.

Admit date

The public roster date showing when a person entered Kaufman County jail custody.

Detainer

A hold from another agency that may keep a person in custody even after local bond is addressed.

TDCJ-ready

A local jail category for a person sentenced or paper-ready for state custody transfer.

Kaufman County Detention Transfers

A county jail roster only answers part of the custody question. Once a Kaufman County defendant is sentenced to state prison and transferred, the county roster may stop being useful. Use the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search for current TDCJ inmates. TDCJ search can use last name with first initial, TDCJ number, or SID number, with optional gender and race filters. TDCJ states that its information is at least 24 hours old and updated on working days only.

Federal status needs careful wording in Kaufman County. The detention center can physically house federal or USMS detainees, as shown by the TCJS federal inmate count and the separate federal visitation groups. That does not make it a BOP prison. For federal sentenced inmates from 1982 to present, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator. For immigration custody, use the official ICE Online Detainee Locator System. For custody notification, Texas VINELink is the statewide notification channel noted in the research.

Kaufman County Detention Records

The roster is a starting point, not a complete records file. The observed grid did not show a public detail page with booking number, bond amount, court date, housing cell, full charge list, warrant number, or mugshot. Hidden columns can add primary charge and arresting agency data, but a public user should not assume that every operational field is online. The charge-description grid can help show how many current inmates have a listed charge description, yet filed court charges may change after prosecutor review.

When the public roster is not enough, the sheriff open-records page is the documented records channel. The research notes that redacted records may be provided within 10 working days when the requester accepts redactions. Requests that seek unredacted records or raise withholding questions may involve an Attorney General ruling process that can take up to 45 working days. Court records after a jail arrest move through the county court portal, County Clerk, District Clerk, Justice of the Peace, and prosecutor channels rather than the jail alone.