Find Refugio County Jail Releases

Refugio Jail Release Paths

The official Refugio County Jail page identifies the county's operating adult detention facility. A community exit may follow surety or cash bond, personal bond, time served, sentence completion, dismissal, or another court order. Each label has a narrow meaning. Bond ends pretrial detention under set conditions but does not dismiss the charge. Time served usually reflects credited completion of a jail sentence. A court order may rest on several legal grounds, so the signed order should be read rather than guessed from a short release code.

Other exits continue custody. Transport to TDCJ, ICE, the United States Marshals Service, another jail, or a treatment placement ends Refugio County's physical hold but is a transfer, not freedom. Ask where the person went. The booking-out record should state the date, time, release authority or code, holds, and destination when those fields exist. The court record explains the legal basis; a receiving-agency entry shows that custody continued.

Confirm a Refugio Jail Release

Refugio County publishes no official live jail roster, recent-release page, or booking archive. The most direct same-day channel is the booking-information line. Use a full legal name and date of birth, then ask a closed question: is the person presently held? If the answer is no, ask whether the person left for the community or was transferred, the book-out date and time, the stated release type, and the destination agency.

1. Call the jail at 361-526-1698 and select option 1 for booking information.
2. Match the person with name, date of birth, booking number, or cause number when available.
3. Ask for held, released, or transferred status. Do not merge those outcomes.
4. Request the booking-out or release entry in writing for durable proof.
5. Pair it with the bond, dismissal, judgment, or release order from the proper clerk.
6. If transferred, continue in TDCJ, BOP, ICE, USMS, or the named receiving jail.

Texas IVSS-Counties may offer participating-county alerts, but Refugio participation must be checked in the live portal. An alert is navigation evidence, not a certified release record. The full named-person workflow is also set out on the Refugio County released inmates search.

Refugio Jail Records Contact

The jail and Sheriff's Office own the local booking and custody-exit record. Telephone confirmation is fast. A written Public Information Act request is more durable and should be narrow: identify the person, booking or cause number if known, and date range; ask for the booking-out timestamp, release type and authority, transfer destination, hold information, and the releasable portion of the release record. Do not ask the county to interpret a court order or a federal status.

The Sheriff's Office page lists 361-526-2352, dispatch at 361-526-2351, and fax 361-526-1668. Public-record hours and a local booking-photo fee were not published in the researched sources. Verify access before traveling. Texas Local Schedule PS sets minimum retention periods for booking-out and release-authority documents, but those rules do not promise a public online archive.

Refugio Release Evidence

Different records answer different questions. A judge's order supplies legal authority but may precede the actual gate exit. The jail's booking-out entry shows the operational end of county custody. A receiving-agency record establishes that a transfer continued. A parole or probation record explains supervision after release. Strong confirmation often uses two records.

Resolve same-name risks with date of birth, booking number, cause number, arresting agency, and booking date. Record when each source was checked. If the identifiers conflict, the result is unconfirmed.

Refugio Transfers to ICE

A Refugio jail entry that says “release to ICE” marks a handoff between governments. It does not establish release to the community. Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator System with exact name, country of birth, and an A-number when known. ICE states that ODLS can include people released from immigration custody during the prior 60 days, which makes it useful for a short period after the county transfer.

Confirm the sequence. The sheriff transfer record establishes when Refugio custody ended. An ICE result or direct immigration record establishes what followed. No ODLS match is not proof of release, especially after the 60-day window or when spelling and identifiers differ. The ICE attorney and detention resources provide current direct contact routes. DHS-VINE is a separate notification service and does not replace an official custody record.

Refugio Jail History Caution

A secondary local-history account says an older Refugio jail structure was moved to Garza Grocery on Highway 35 in Tivoli, later placed behind the Refugio fire station as a museum artifact, and ultimately destroyed by a severe storm. That account is useful only as attributed local color. It does not identify the current facility and should never route a visit, records request, or release pickup.

The operating jail address comes from Refugio County itself: 405 Mesquite Street in Refugio. No authoritative source located a fixed release-processing time, weekend procedure, family waiting point, or property-pickup rule. Call the jail before travel. Those are documented unknowns, not facts to fill with practices from another Texas county.

After a Refugio Release

The next office depends on the order. State parole and mandatory supervision go to TDCJ's Victoria District Parole Office. Local court probation goes to the 24th Judicial District CSCD Refugio Unit. A sentence to TDCJ moves the person into state custody. Federal sentenced custody belongs in BOP records, while federal pretrial custody is usually traced through the court and USMS holding facility.

Parole

Conditional release from state prison under TDCJ supervision.

Probation

Community supervision ordered by a court and administered locally; prison release is not required.

Discharge

Completion of the sentence and its related custody or supervision.

Detainer

A request or legal basis for another authority to take or continue custody.

A release record should not be stretched beyond its words. “Released” does not by itself mean charges were dismissed, all sentences ended, or every hold cleared. Preserve the original code.

Refugio Jail Retention Records

Texas State Library Local Schedule PS gives a useful floor for records that may outlast a vanished web result. Item PS4200-10 covers documents showing commitment, transport, transfer, or release, including booking-in and booking-out material and release-authority records. Its minimum is release or transfer plus two years. Item PS4200-12 applies the same minimum to property inventories and receipts. Item PS4200-14 sets transfer plus one year for a sheriff's copies of specified TDCJ transfer papers, although related arrest-report rules may require longer retention.

These schedules do not create a two-year online roster. Refugio County publishes no roster or web-retention promise. They help frame a narrow written request while the custodian should still hold the series. Ask for the booking-out entry, release authority, transfer destination, and releasable property receipt tied to one booking and date range. An expunction order can override an ordinary schedule, and exceptions may limit disclosure. The schedule helps locate a record but does not guarantee every field is public.

Refugio Court Release Match

The Sheriff's record and the court file should agree on identity and legal authority, though their timestamps may differ. County and misdemeanor matters generally route through the Refugio County Clerk. Felony and district matters route through the District Clerk. A docket setting can help find a cause number, but it is not a release event. The county's linked publicsearch.us product is presented for official or property records and should not be mislabeled as a criminal custody locator.

A bond order plus the jail timestamp supports bond-out. A judgment awarding time served plus the booking-out entry supports completion. A dismissal explains a case result but cannot rule out a separate hold. A TDCJ sentence plus transfer paperwork shows continued custody. When the judge's signed time precedes book-out, processing or another hold may explain the gap. Preserve both dates and ask about the sequence instead of calling one record wrong.