Colorado County Jail Overview
Colorado County Jail is the Jail Division of the Colorado County Sheriff's Office. The facility is a county jail, not a TDCJ state prison. It receives people arrested by sheriff's deputies, city police, DPS, or other lawful authorities when they are committed to county custody. It also holds people on local warrants, local misdemeanor or felony pretrial cases, short local sentences, parole-related holds, state-jail-felony categories, and people sentenced to a TDCJ division but not yet transferred.
The sheriff's site ties the jail to the office's public-safety mission and lists named jail contacts: Captain Ashley Laake, Lieutenant Tyler Stripling, and Tracy Lewis. The jail page does not publish a public online roster, booking desk hours, pod layout, medical unit detail, commissary vendor, inmate phone vendor, or booking profile sample. That absence matters. Colorado County Jail lookup content should lead with the official phone and written-records process, then explain when a court portal or TDCJ locator becomes the right tool.
The official Jail Division page shows the jail phone line and command staff contacts for Colorado County Jail.
That source is the local starting point because no public roster fields or live inmate profile page were found.
Colorado County Jail Population
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards reported Colorado County Jail with 99 rated beds and 54 total inmates on June 1, 2026. The related incarceration-rate workbook reported an average daily population of 58 for the same date. Those are the best sourced public population figures found for the facility. They should be treated as point-in-time jail population data, not as a roster of named people in custody.
TCJS reported local pretrial felony, pretrial misdemeanor, pretrial state-jail-felony, local sentenced, and TDCJ-sentenced transfer categories for Colorado County on that date. It reported no federal inmates in the county jail. The research did not locate a county-published annual booking total, average length of stay, housing-unit count, or demographic table beyond TCJS custody categories.
Lookup Colorado County Jail Inmates
No official public Colorado County Jail online roster, booking report, released-inmate list, or mugshot gallery was located. Current custody questions should go first to the Jail Division phone line. If a record is needed, the Sheriff's Office has a written open-records procedure. If charges have been filed, the County Clerk links criminal court records to the Texas UCMS / Tyler Odyssey portal. If a person has been sentenced and transferred, the search shifts to TDCJ.
- Call the Colorado County Jail Division at 979-732-2388 x2 with the person's full name, date of birth or age, arrest date, and arresting agency.
- If the arrest happened inside Columbus, Eagle Lake, or Weimar, or was handled by DPS, ask whether the incident or arrest report must be requested from that agency.
- Submit a written Sheriff's Office records request for booking records, arrest records, bond details, or a booking photo that is not online.
- Search the Texas UCMS Public Access Portal after court charges have been filed.
- Use the TDCJ inmate search after transfer to state custody, and BOP or ICE only for federal or immigration custody.
Important: Colorado County court search is not a same-day jail roster. A new arrest can exist in jail custody before any court case appears online.
Colorado County Jail Contact
Use the Walnut Street Sheriff's Office complex for jail questions. Do not route jail visitors or custody questions to the courthouse on Spring Street unless the question is about court filings, clerk copies, or prosecutor records. The sheriff's open-records email is also the local channel for written records requests when booking or arrest materials are not posted online.
Colorado County Jail
2215 Walnut Street
Columbus, TX 78934
979-732-2388 x2
Main Sheriff's Office: 979-732-2388
Records email: ccsorecords@co.colorado.tx.us
| Contact | Published Detail |
|---|---|
| Mailing address | P.O. Box 607, Columbus, TX 78934 |
| Fax | 979-732-6431 |
| Open-records contact | Eugenia Behrens, 979-732-2388 ext. 224 |
| Jail staff contacts | Captain Ashley Laake, Lieutenant Tyler Stripling, Tracy Lewis |
Visit Colorado County Jail
Colorado County publishes weekend visitation windows and one key eligibility rule: all inmate visitors must be listed on the inmate's visitation list, and the inmate is responsible for completing that list. The official page did not publish a dress code, ID list, child-visitor rule, locker rule, attorney-visit rule, remote video vendor, or visit length per person beyond the posted windows. Confirm those details with the Jail Division before travel.
The official visitation page shows the male and female weekend visitation schedule for Colorado County Jail.
The schedule is narrow, so a visitor should confirm list status before arriving for a short visitation window.
| Population | Day | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Male inmates | Saturday | 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. |
| Male inmates | Sunday | 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. |
| Female inmates | Saturday | 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Female inmates | Sunday | 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
Mail and Money at Colorado County Jail
The official local pages reviewed did not publish a mail format, scanned-mail policy, book rule, phone vendor, video vendor, commissary vendor, deposit kiosk, online deposit portal, or fee table for Colorado County Jail. Those details should be confirmed by phone before sending funds, books, mail, or property. Do not assume a vendor from another Texas county applies here.
| Service | Colorado County Official Status |
|---|---|
| Inmate mail format | Not located in official sheriff/county pages reviewed |
| Phone or video vendor | Not located in official sheriff/county pages reviewed |
| Commissary vendor | Not located in official sheriff/county pages reviewed |
| Deposit fees | Not located in official sheriff/county pages reviewed |
When a Colorado County defendant transfers to TDCJ, county jail mail and money rules stop applying. TDCJ has its own visitation, trust fund, and remote video visitation pages, including separate scheduling and deposit rules for state prisoners.
Colorado County Jail Booking
Local pages did not publish a step-by-step jail intake sequence. The custody path can still be described from official Texas and local sources: arrest, transport or commitment to the appropriate detention process, identification and administrative booking, search and property handling, fingerprints, booking photo, medical or safety screening, classification, and housing if the person remains in custody. Details such as intake time, property-release rules, phone-call rules, and medical vendor were not published.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 requires an arrested person to be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay. That stage can affect warnings, rights, bond, and conditions. The booking charge at jail intake may not match the final prosecutor-filed charge. Court filings may later show a complaint, information, indictment, amended charge, dismissal, warrant, judgment, or disposition.
About Colorado County Jail
The current jail's construction year, architectural history, housing-unit layout, accreditation status, and local inmate programs were not located in official pages reviewed. The City of Columbus has a local-history page for an old county jail on Spring Street east of the courthouse, but that historic building should not be confused with the current sheriff's complex on Walnut Street. The current jail is the operating county detention facility.
The sheriff's complaint page may matter for public complaints about Sheriff's Office employees, including correctional officers and jailers. It is not the same as a published inmate grievance process. The page says misconduct complaints must be written, signed, and notarized before being considered, and that the Sheriff reviews and assigns complaints for investigation.
Note: Confirm custody, visitor-list status, and entry rules with Colorado County Jail before traveling to Walnut Street.