Sutton County Jail Overview
Sutton County Jail is operated by the Sutton County Sheriff's Office. The official county sheriff page lists Sheriff DuWayne Castro and gives the sheriff and jail address as 401 E. Oak Street, Sonora, Texas 76950. The same page lists the main phone as 325-387-2288 and fax as 325-387-5245. The facility functions as a county jail, not a state prison. It is the local custody point for people arrested in Sutton County who are not released by citation, bond, magistrate order, or transfer to another jurisdiction.
The public page does not publish a jail administrator, detention division chart, pod names, housing map, separate women's unit description, work-release unit, medical unit, mental-health unit, lobby schedule, or booking desk schedule. That absence shapes how the facility should be used by the public. Current jail questions go through VINELink and the sheriff's main line. Court charges, dockets, and older court files go through the clerk and court systems. Prison, federal, and immigration custody searches go to separate state or federal tools.
The county's official screenshot source is the Sutton County Sheriff page, which shows the local contact information and the VINELink custody-status referral.
That page is the most direct county source for the jail's operator, address, phone number, and public custody-status route.
Sutton County Jail Population
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards is the official statewide jail standards and reporting source for Sutton County Jail population data. The TCJS population reports current inmate population workbook listed Sutton County with a rated capacity of 28 beds and a total jail population of 5 on the June 1, 2026 row. The same row showed 5 local male pretrial felons and zeros in most other captured categories, including female pretrial felons, Class A/B misdemeanants, convicted misdemeanants, bench warrants, federal inmates, contract inmates, and housed-elsewhere fields.
The reported June 1, 2026 population placed the jail at about 17.86 percent of rated capacity. TCJS also published an incarceration-rate workbook row showing county population 3,269, jail population 5, and a rate field of 1.53 in the June 2026 data. Those figures should be read as official reporting snapshots, not as a live roster. For a fresh arrest, the sheriff's custody channel is still the correct check.
Sutton County Jail Custody
Sutton County Jail holds local pretrial defendants, local misdemeanor and felony defendants, warrant detainees, and short-term local custody categories reported to TCJS. A person may also be held briefly while another agency decides whether to transport or release them. Official sources did not show a separate city jail in Sonora, so people arrested locally likely route to Sutton County Jail unless released, transferred, or taken by another agency. Do not describe this small rural jail as a large detention complex or state prison.
Sentenced Texas prisoners are different. Once a Sutton County case ends in a state-prison sentence and the person transfers, TDCJ controls the locator, facility assignment, visitation, mail, commissary, and release information. Federal inmates and immigration detainees also require separate systems. A federal pretrial detainee may be handled through the U.S. Marshals Service Western District of Texas and may not appear in the BOP locator until sentenced or formally in BOP custody.
| Person's Status | Likely Search Channel | Key Limit |
|---|---|---|
| New local arrest | VINELink and sheriff phone | May not appear online right away. |
| Sutton County pretrial detainee | VINELink and sheriff records | County site does not publish a full roster. |
| State-prison sentence | TDCJ Inmate Information Search | Not a county jail custody record after transfer. |
| Federal custody | BOP locator or USMS Western District | BOP locator is not always useful for federal pretrial custody. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | ICE locator has its own limits and privacy rules. |
Lookup Sutton County Jail Inmates
Sutton County Jail does not publish a county-hosted roster on the county pages used here. The sheriff's page instead links to VINELink Texas/Sutton for offender custody status. VINELink is free for public custody checks and notification registration, but it is not a full county booking profile. It should not be expected to show every charge detail, booking photo, bond line, court date, or housing assignment. Call the sheriff for a new booking or a result that does not match what family or court paperwork suggests.
- Search the sheriff-linked VINELink Texas/Sutton page by legal name and any identifying fields the current interface accepts.
- Try spelling variants, aliases, hyphenated last names, and date of birth fields if the first search fails.
- Call 325-387-2288 for newly booked people, uncertain matches, bond questions, or possible transfers.
- Ask whether the person is held at Sutton County Jail, released, transferred, or held for another agency.
- Use TDCJ, BOP, USMS, or ICE if the sheriff confirms the person is outside local jail custody.
Note: VINELink can help with custody notification, but it does not replace the sheriff for urgent local custody confirmation.
Sutton County Jail Contact
The jail and sheriff share the public contact point listed by Sutton County. Use the main number before travel for visitation, bond, property, records, mail, money, or custody questions. The county site does not publish visitor parking rules, visitor entrance rules, lobby hours, or booking counter hours. Because Sonora is rural and the jail address is close to the courthouse area, call first if the trip depends on a specific service being open.
Sutton County Jail
401 E. Oak Street
Sonora, TX 76950
325-387-2288
Operator: Sutton County Sheriff's Office
Fax: 325-387-5245
Visit Sutton County Jail
Sutton County does not publish a local visitation schedule, video visit vendor, registration portal, dress code, public family visit rule set, attorney-visit rule, or visitor ID list on the sheriff page. That means visitors should not rely on third-party schedules. Call the sheriff before traveling, ask whether visits are being held, ask who may visit, and confirm what identification and property limits apply. A government photo ID should be expected for any approved jail visit, but the exact local rule was not published.
| Facility | Schedule | Registration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton County Jail | Not published on sheriff page | Not published | Call 325-387-2288 before arrival. |
| Attorney visits | Not published locally | Arrange through the jail | Professional visits should use official jail channels. |
| TDCJ state prison | TDCJ rules | TDCJ approval and scheduling | Only after transfer to state prison. |
Sutton County Jail Mail Money
The sheriff page does not publish jail mail rules, an inmate phone vendor, tablet vendor, video visit provider, commissary company, deposit website, deposit kiosk location, fee schedule, or money-order rule. Confirm all mail and money rules with the jail before acting. Do not send cash, stamps, medicine, packages, Polaroids, or any item the jail has not approved. If the jail gives a booking number, include it with the inmate's full legal name on any approved mail or records request.
| Service | Published Local Detail | Practical Step |
|---|---|---|
| No format published | Call the jail before sending mail. | |
| Phone calls | No vendor published | Ask whether an account system is used. |
| Video visits | No vendor published | Do not assume remote visits are available. |
| Commissary deposits | No vendor or fee published | Confirm whether deposits are accepted and how. |
Sutton County Jail Booking
A local arrest may begin with a sheriff's deputy, Sonora-area officer, DPS trooper, warrant, indictment capias, bench warrant, parole hold, or other lawful authority. If the person is not released at the scene or routed elsewhere, jail intake records identity, arrest basis, property, fingerprints, photograph if taken, medical or mental-health screening, and classification. Classification means the jail's safety and housing decision. It can consider charge level, behavior, medical needs, sex, risk, and available beds.
Bond is governed by Texas law and local court orders. Sutton County does not publish a local bond schedule, cashier hours, accepted payment list, or bonding company procedure on the sheriff page. Call the sheriff to confirm whether bond is set, whether another hold blocks release, where bond must be posted, and what payment methods are allowed. A person may satisfy a Sutton bond and still remain jailed for another county warrant, TDCJ parole hold, federal detainer, ICE matter, or court order.
- Magistrate warning
- The first court advisement after arrest, including rights and bond-related issues.
- Bench warrant
- A warrant issued by a judge, often after missed court or failure to comply with an order.
- No-bond hold
- A custody status where release is blocked until a court or agency resolves the hold.
Sutton County Jail Records
Booking records are sheriff-held records, while filed criminal cases are court records. If VINELink and the sheriff phone line do not answer a records question, use a written request under the Texas Public Information Act for jail records held by the sheriff. Ask for specific items, such as a booking sheet, jail log entry, arrest report, or booking photo. Include the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, and any case, warrant, or booking number already known.
For court charges after an arrest, use the Sutton docket search, re:SearchTX, County Clerk, or District Clerk. Sutton clerk materials state that records before 1992 are not fully digitized and may require in-person search or a completed request form. District Clerk materials also note a $10 search fee for prior-to-1992 district records. The clerk path answers filed charges and dispositions. The sheriff path answers booking and custody records.
Note: Active investigations, juvenile data, victim information, medical details, and protected identifiers may be redacted or withheld.
Sutton County Jail Mugshots
The Sutton County sheriff page does not publish a county-hosted mugshot gallery, recent-bookings gallery, daily booking photo report, or most-wanted gallery. The public path is to check the sheriff-linked custody channel, call the sheriff, and request a booking photo under Texas public-records law if needed. Texas does not require every county to post booking photos online. A booking photograph may be a law-enforcement record subject to release, exception, redaction, or Attorney General review depending on the facts.
Do not use commercial mugshot sites as an official source for Sutton County Jail records. Those sites may be stale, incomplete, or unrelated to the current custody record. If a case is dismissed, expunged, or subject to nondisclosure, use Texas court processes and legal advice rather than paying a private site for removal. TDCJ photos, if shown for sentenced prisoners, are state-prison locator images and not Sutton County booking mugshots.
Sutton County Jail Transfers
A Sutton County Jail inmate may leave local custody by release on bond, release by court order, time served, transfer to another county, TDCJ transfer after sentence, federal transfer, or ICE-related movement. Once the person leaves the jail, Sutton County's local custody status may no longer answer the main question. Use TDCJ for sentenced Texas prisoners, BOP for federal sentenced or historical federal custody, USMS Western District of Texas for federal pretrial routing questions, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention.
The federal custody screenshot source is the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.
Use BOP only for federal custody questions. It will not show a normal Sutton County Jail pretrial booking.
About Sutton County Jail
Sutton County Jail is a small rural county jail regulated through the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. The county sheriff page does not publish a construction date, expansion history, ACA accreditation listing, local programs page, work-release program description, GED program list, grievance procedure, or medical request procedure. TCJS reporting is the best official population and capacity source located, and the sheriff page is the best official local source for custody contact.
No official local consent decree, active DOJ jail investigation, new jail construction page, or county-published jail litigation page was found in county materials. That does not mean no issue can ever exist. It means current rules and documented facts should be checked against official sources. Call the sheriff before visiting, mailing, depositing money, or relying on any non-official jail schedule.