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Childress County Jail Overview

The Childress County Jail is the primary local detention facility for Childress County arrests and local custody. It is operated by the Childress County Sheriff's Office. The official sheriff bio card lists Sheriff Matthew Bradley, sheriff@childresstx.us, 1005 Avenue F NE, Childress, TX 79201, telephone (940) 937-2535, fax (940) 937-2395, sworn in January 1, 2025, with term ending December 31, 2028. The sheriff page names Gregorio Garcia as Jail Administrator and lists normal business hours as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The facility should be distinguished from T. L. Roach Unit. The county jail is for pretrial and local custody. Roach is a TDCJ state prison for sentenced male prisoners. A person arrested in Childress County may be booked at the jail first, then later transferred to another system if sentenced, held on a detainer, or moved under a court order.

Childress County Jail Contact

Use the sheriff's office contact details for current jail questions, records routing, and visitor planning. The sheriff page does not publish a separate booking-desk number, visitation desk, commissary vendor, or online bond window. Emergency calls should go to 911, not the non-emergency office line.

For open-records mailing, preserve the posted address conflict. The sheriff bio card uses Avenue F NE, while the open-records paragraph uses Avenue F NW. Call the sheriff's office before mailing a request so the address direction is confirmed from the source office.

Search Childress County Jail Custody

The sheriff page routes custody-status users to Texas IVSS/Counties. No official county-hosted roster page, daily booking list, or mugshot gallery was found. IVSS says users may search by full name, partial name, DOC ID, State/SID, Jail ID, or permanent booking number. It also says offenders no longer in custody may not be included, so a missing result does not end the search.

1. Open the Texas IVSS Counties portal linked from the sheriff page.
2. Search by full name, partial name, State/SID, Jail ID, DOC ID, or permanent booking number.
3. Use first name then last name for full-name searches.
4. Call (940) 937-2535 when no result appears or when bond/release details are needed.
5. Submit a written sheriff records request for booking records or booking photographs.

The screenshot below shows the official sheriff page used for Childress County Jail lookup routing. The Childress County Sheriff page is the source for jail administrator, open-records, IVSS, and Sheriff Connect information.

The local page supports jail search routing, but it does not provide a complete public inmate profile by itself.

Childress County Jail Population

Capacity is the main local number that has two sourced values. The sheriff bio image describes a 92-bed county jail. The TCJS June 1, 2026 population workbook lists capacity as 94 and total jail population as 33, which is about 35.1% of capacity. The TCJS incarceration-rate workbook lists countywide population 6,679, ADP 26, and incarceration rate 3.89 for June 1, 2026.

The same TCJS materials show Childress well below capacity in the cited snapshot, but they do not publish annual bookings or average length of stay for the county in the research file. Population tables should not be stretched into claims about crowding, staffing, or jail conditions without a source. They are best used for capacity, count, and trend context.

TCJS figures describe the jail population. They do not confirm whether a named person is in custody.

Childress County Jail Booking

Official Childress-specific intake steps were not posted, but the sheriff bio says the office manages the county jail, serves arrest warrants, provides courtroom security, and transports prisoners to court and correctional facilities. In general, jail booking may include identity confirmation, property inventory, warrant and hold checks, fingerprints, booking photo, medical screening, and classification. Article 15.17 then requires a magistrate appearance without unnecessary delay for warnings, rights, counsel, and bail where allowed.

Classification

A jail decision about custody level and housing, not published for the public Childress page.

No-bond hold

A custody status that cannot be cleared by routine bond payment.

PR bond

A personal recognizance bond based on a promise and court conditions.

Childress County Jail Visiting

Official local visitation, mail, money-deposit, commissary, phone, tablet, and video-visit rules were not located on the sheriff page. Do not assume a vendor such as Securus, GTL/ViaPath, HomeWAV, Access Corrections, or JPay. Call the jail before visiting, mailing anything, sending funds, or arranging attorney access.

Childress County Jail Directions

The sheriff bio card lists the jail at 1005 Avenue F NE in Childress. Official parking, public entrance, and ADA-entry details were not located. Childress is served by US-287, and visitors should use GPS from US-287 or TX-256 area approaches to reach the city street grid. Confirm the correct public entrance before arriving.

For broader county jail population data and lookup paths, use the Childress County inmate population hub.

The sheriff page also describes office duties that help explain local custody flow. Deputies patrol the county, enforce traffic laws, investigate criminal activity, assist other agencies, serve arrest warrants and civil process, provide courtroom security, operate dispatch and 911 communications, transport prisoners to court and correctional facilities, and transport commitments to mental hospitals. Those duties can produce records in more than one office, so custody, court, warrant, and transport questions may not all have the same source.

The sheriff page includes a Sheriff Connect smartphone application notice. The county text says to download Sheriff Connect, search for Childress County Sheriff's Office, and allow notifications for important events and community updates. It does not document app-only inmate lookup, warrant search, or mugshot features. Treat it as an alert tool unless the sheriff publishes a more specific app feature list.

Childress County Jail also sits inside the Texas county-jail oversight system. TCJS population reports show capacity and monthly jail count data, while Texas Government Code Chapter 511 and related administrative standards govern county jail oversight. Those sources help explain facility capacity, but they do not replace a jail call when the question is whether one named person is still held, eligible for release, or scheduled for court transport.

For court dates, filed charges, or certified case copies, move from the jail to the clerk channel after custody is confirmed. Both the County Clerk and District Clerk pages link to LGS Online Records Search and warn users to try spelling variations. That clerk route is separate from the sheriff's jail record route.