Search Wood County Jail Inmates

Wood County Jail Overview

Wood County Jail is operated by the Wood County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Kelly Cole. The jail is the first facility to check after a local arrest by the sheriff's office, a city police department in the county, a constable, DPS, or another local agency. It holds adults arrested in Wood County, pretrial detainees, sentenced county inmates, people held for local courts, and temporary holds before transfer. It is not the right lookup point for a person already assigned to a state prison unit.

The sheriff's jail page describes the facility as open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It also publishes a local detention staffing structure of 30 certified jailers, with one jail administrator, one lieutenant, seven sergeants, and 21 officers. Captain Dahlman is listed as jail administrator, Lieutenant Cox as assistant jail administrator, and Sergeant Harris as administrative sergeant. The county page does not publish a rated jail capacity, current population count, annual booking total, or housing-pod layout, so those figures should not be assumed.

The official Wood County jail page is a useful public hub because it covers the main tasks families usually need after booking: jail search, VINE notification, visitation, mail, bonds, fines, commissary, trust accounts, attorney access, and phone service. The county also has a separate sheriff open-records process for booking records or older jail records that are not visible in the online search.

The sheriff jail page from Wood County shows the facility's public-facing custody tools and rules. The screenshot below comes from the official Wood County jail page.

That local jail page is the source for the JailATM mail rules, the Tuesday and Sunday visitation schedule, and the ICSolutions phone-service reference used throughout this Wood County Jail roster page.

Wood County Jail Population

Wood County publishes a clear custody role for the jail, but it does not publish a live population figure or rated capacity in the reviewed official materials. That matters because a capacity number is often copied from third-party pages without a date or source. The safer record position is narrow: Wood County Jail is the county detention facility for local custody, and the research located a verified staff count but no verified capacity count.

Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports are the state oversight place to check for county jail population data, but the Wood County row was not extracted in the research file. For a person in custody today, the jail roster, the main sheriff line, and the sheriff's records process are more useful than an old capacity figure.

Wood County Jail Lookup

Current Wood County Jail custody is routed through Wood County Online Jail Search on Tyler PublicAccess. The broader Wood County Records Inquiry portal is also linked by the district clerk for cases, court calendar, jail records, and related records. The jail-search link is the first place to try for a person booked into local custody. If the portal shows a human-verification screen or does not display the record, use the jail phone line or sheriff open-records fallback rather than switching to an unofficial roster.

1. Open the Wood County Online Jail Search linked from the sheriff's jail page.
2. Search using the person's name as shown in court, arrest, or booking paperwork.
3. Confirm that the result is a Wood County Jail record, not a court-only record or another custody system.
4. If the roster does not answer the question, call the jail or file a sheriff open-records request with the person's full name, date of birth if known, booking date range, and requested record type.

The Tyler portal could not be inspected from the command-line research environment because AWS WAF returned human verification. That is not the same as a paid or private roster. The county still links the jail search as its official online route. Follow the fields shown in a normal browser, and do not rely on guessed field names if the portal layout changes.

Wood County Jail Contact

Use the main sheriff and jail contact information for Wood County Jail custody questions unless staff direct a caller to a more specific unit. The sheriff's office and jail share the published 402 S. Stephens Street location in Quitman. The jail operates all day, but public visitation has a limited Tuesday and Sunday schedule.

For records that do not appear in Tyler PublicAccess, the sheriff's Open Records Request page cites the Texas Public Information Act and asks requestors to describe the record with enough detail for staff to locate it. A request for a jail booking record should include full name, date of birth if known, booking date or date range, arresting agency if known, and whether the request is for custody status, a booking record, or another jail document.

Wood County Jail Visitation

Wood County Jail uses face-to-face visitation with telephones in visitation booths and video visits through JailATM.com. Face-to-face visits occur on Tuesday and Sunday only. Each inmate may have two in-person visits per week, no more than one per day, and each in-person visit lasts 20 minutes. Jail staff move a new group into visitation every 30 minutes. Visitors must call the jail no later than 6:00 p.m. the day before the visit and may sign up only for the next visitation date.

Visitors must present valid photo identification, such as a driver's license, U.S. passport, or Texas DPS identification. Visitors under 17 must be accompanied by an adult. The jail bars weapons, cell phones, tablets, recording devices, electronics, tobacco, vaping, and all personal items from the visitation booth. Dress rules also bar shorts, short skirts, halter or tank tops, low-cut shirts, transparent clothing, tight or suggestive clothing, and improper dress.

Wood County Jail Mail

Personal inmate mail for Wood County Jail does not go straight to the jail building. The county uses JailATM processing, where personal mail is opened, scanned, and sent digitally to the inmate. Legal and privileged mail is different. It still goes directly to the jail's PO Box in Quitman. Books, magazines, and newspapers also use the jail PO Box, but books and Bibles must come directly from the publisher and hardback books are not allowed.

Sender name and return address must appear on the envelope. The inmate's full booking name and S.O. number should be included when known. The county rejects birthday cards, hardback or matted photos, pornographic or sexually suggestive material, and mail with lipstick, glitter, or non-typical letter materials.

Wood County Jail Money

Wood County Jail opens an inmate trust account when a person is booked. Money held at booking is entered into that account. After booking, deposits are made through JailATM online or through the lobby kiosk. Jail staff do not accept cash or money orders at the window for inmate-account deposits. Commissary orders are posted in the computer on Wednesday morning, and outside items are not accepted through the jail window unless pre-approved and unavailable from the commissary vendor.

Bond and fine payments are separate from commissary deposits. Wood County says cash bonds may be posted by family or friends who can provide the full amount. Cash bonds can be paid with exact cash, money order, or cashier's check. The jail page also lists an added state fee on the first and second bonds per jailing, with Class C bonds excepted from those charges. Surety bonds are handled through bonding agencies, which charge a fee and assume responsibility for the defendant's court appearance.

Wood County Jail Intake

A local Wood County arrest normally moves from law-enforcement custody to transport, intake, and booking. The jail creates or updates the custody record, verifies identity, handles property and money, and places the person into an appropriate jail process. Wood County does not publish a full step-by-step intake policy, so exact timing, housing, screening, and classification fields should be confirmed with the jail rather than inferred from other counties.

After booking, the public record may appear in more than one place. The Wood County Online Jail Search is the first custody check. Formal charges and court dates may appear through Tyler Records Inquiry or the proper court clerk. Bond may be set during the magistrate process. If a person later moves into TDCJ custody, the search shifts from the county jail roster to the state locator. For the state facility in Winnsboro, use the Clyde M. Johnston Unit page and the TDCJ search path.

Booking

The jail intake record created after arrest and transport.

Bond

Security set to help ensure the defendant appears in court.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency, court, parole authority, federal authority, or immigration officials.

TDCJ

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, used for sentenced state-prison custody.

Wood County Jail Access

Wood County Jail should be treated as a local jail record source, not a statewide criminal-history database. Its roster and records process are useful for current jail custody, booking records, visitation, mail, bond, and release or transfer notice routes. Court filings, prosecutor decisions, and final case outcomes come from the court and clerk system. State prison placement comes from TDCJ. Federal or immigration custody requires BOP or ICE channels.

VINELink is useful when the concern is release or transfer notification, especially for victims and witnesses. It does not replace the Wood County Jail roster or the sheriff records process. The sheriff's open-records page is the better route when the online roster does not show the booking information needed or when an older booking record is requested.