The DeWitt County Inmate Population
The local DeWitt County inmate population is centered on the DeWitt County Jail in Cuero. The jail is operated by the DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office and holds local pretrial detainees, local misdemeanor or county-jail sentence cases, warrant arrests, bond holds, parole or TDCJ holds, and some contract or federal hold entries when they are booked through the jail. A second detention facility, Clarence N. Stevenson Unit, sits in DeWitt County, but it is a TDCJ state prison rather than part of the county jail roster.
The population count changes when local agencies make arrests, when bond is posted, when a court changes a hold, when a person is released, or when a sentenced inmate is moved to TDCJ custody. The jail roster is the live lookup path for current county custody. Population statistics come from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports, which collect first-day-of-month jail data from county facilities. Those reports are snapshots. They are not a count of every person booked during a month.
DeWitt County Inmate Population Statistics
TCJS is the strongest public source for DeWitt County jail population numbers. In the DeWitt row of the June 1, 2026 population report, TCJS listed a rated capacity of 161 beds and a total jail population of 88. The same reporting set listed an average daily population of 71 in the incarceration-rate workbook. Those figures describe the county jail only. Stevenson Unit’s separate 1,384 capacity comes from the TDCJ Stevenson Unit directory and is not added to the county jail capacity.
| Measure | Figure | Source and Date |
|---|---|---|
| Rated county jail capacity | 161 beds | TCJS Inmate Population Report, DeWitt row, June 1, 2026 |
| Total jail population snapshot | 88 | TCJS Inmate Population Report, June 1, 2026 |
| Percent of capacity | About 54.7% | TCJS Inmate Population Report, June 1, 2026 |
| Average daily population | 71 | TCJS Incarceration Rate workbook, June 1, 2026 |
| Incarceration Rate | 3.51 | TCJS Incarceration Rate workbook, June 1, 2026 |
| Stevenson Unit capacity | 1,384 | TDCJ unit directory |
The sheriff’s detention page and the county roster do not publish annual booking totals or average length of stay. Those rows should not be guessed. The safest reading is that TCJS provides capacity and snapshot population, while the sheriff’s office provides the current roster and jail-specific public information.
DeWitt County Jail Population Trends
The extracted TCJS monthly trend shows the DeWitt County Jail stayed below capacity from July 2025 through June 2026. The highest reported snapshot in that span was 94 people, and the lowest was 77. Each monthly figure is a first-day count, so it can miss short booking spikes between reports. Still, the pattern is useful because it shows the jail operating well below the 161-bed rated capacity during the available period.
| Month | Total Jail Population | Capacity | Percent Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2025 | 81 | 161 | 50.31% |
| August 1, 2025 | 94 | 161 | 58.39% |
| September 1, 2025 | 92 | 161 | 57.14% |
| October 1, 2025 | 94 | 161 | 58.39% |
| November 1, 2025 | 77 | 161 | 47.83% |
| December 1, 2025 | 83 | 161 | 51.55% |
| January 1, 2026 | 83 | 161 | 51.55% |
| February 1, 2026 | 87 | 161 | 54.04% |
| March 1, 2026 | 88 | 161 | 54.66% |
| April 1, 2026 | 88 | 161 | 54.66% |
| May 1, 2026 | 89 | 161 | 55.28% |
| June 1, 2026 | 88 | 161 | 54.66% |
No official overcrowding order, consent decree, jail closure notice, or county jail construction program was located in the official-source sweep. The district clerk did publish a court-operation change effective January 1, 2026, when district courts went paperless in the District Clerk’s Office, but that affects court records more than jail bed use.
Who Is in the DeWitt County Jail
The June 1, 2026 TCJS row gives more detail than a single head count. The largest local group was pretrial felony inmates, with 35 male and 7 female inmates held locally, plus 5 male pretrial felony inmates housed elsewhere. The row also included local pretrial Class A and B misdemeanants, parole violators, parole violators with new charges, convicted felons serving county-jail time, pretrial state jail felons, and an “others” category. Official race, ethnicity, and age breakdowns were not located for the DeWitt County Jail.
- Pretrial felony custody was the largest identified group in the extracted TCJS row.
- Parole and TDCJ holds can keep a person in custody even after local bond questions are addressed.
- County-jail sentences are separate from sentenced TDCJ prison custody.
- Federal local columns showed zero local federal inmates in the DeWitt row for June 1, 2026.
Laws Governing DeWitt County Jail Data
Texas law explains why some jail and court data is public, why some data is withheld, and why a booking record should not be treated as a conviction. The sheriff’s own detention page gives a practical public-information boundary: the jail can provide whether an inmate is in custody, the charges, and the bond amount. It will not provide court dates, confidential commissary account data, medical information that would violate HIPAA, or inmate message service.
Key Statutes:
Texas Government Code Chapter 552 gives the public a route to request government records unless an exception applies.
Texas Government Code Chapter 511 governs the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the agency behind county jail oversight and population reporting.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 17 controls bail and bond concepts after arrest.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55 governs expunction for qualifying arrest records.
How to Search DeWitt County Inmates
The official online route for current county jail custody is the Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements portal. It is linked from the sheriff’s detention center search database and from the Citizen Connect home page. The portal is free, but the research found reCAPTCHA and session controls. If a direct request fails, use a live browser session or call the jail information line.
Citizen Connect shows DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office as the agency and Sheriff Carl R. Bowen in the header. The roster is meant for county jail custody, not for sentenced state prisoners housed by TDCJ. Start with current confinements when the person may be in jail now. Use admit searches when the person was recently booked and may already have bonded out.
- Open the DeWitt County Inmate Confinements portal.
- Use Current Confinements for a person believed to be in the jail right now.
- Use Last 24 Hour Admits, Last 7 Days Admits, or Admits by Date Range for recent bookings.
- Search by charge or arresting agency when the name search is not enough.
- Call the jail at 361-275-0034 when the roster is blocked, unclear, or missing a current custody detail.
Note: The visible portal warning says to limit a custom date range to 31 days or less, so keep admit searches narrow.
DeWitt County Roster Search Fields
The roster’s search tools are more specific than a basic name box. It separates current confinements from recent admits, charge searches, and arresting-agency searches. The arresting-agency dropdown is important because DeWitt County bookings can come from the sheriff’s office, Cuero Police Department, Yorktown Police Department, constables, DPS, Texas Parks and Wildlife, TABC, prosecutors, and federal entries such as United States Marshals in Victoria.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current Confinements | Tab/button | No | Loads the current jail result set. |
| Last 24 Hour Admits | Button | No | Searches recent admissions. |
| Last 7 Days Admits | Button | No | Useful when release may have occurred quickly. |
| Start and End Date | Date fields | For custom date range | Use MM/DD/YYYY and keep the range within the published limit. |
| Charge | Text | No | Search by a known charge term. |
| Arresting Agency | Dropdown | No | Includes DeWitt Co SO, Cuero PD, Yorktown PD, constables, DPS, and other agencies. |
What DeWitt County Inmate Records Show
The sheriff’s detention page is clear about what the jail will confirm to the public: custody status, charges, and bond amount. The Citizen Connect platform is also built to handle mugshot images, admit timing, charge searches, and arresting-agency searches. Full profile sampling was blocked by session and reCAPTCHA controls during research, so fields such as date of birth, physical descriptors, housing unit, or booking number should not be promised unless the live profile displays them.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Custody status | Whether the person is in DeWitt County Jail custody. |
| Charges | The booking or jail charge information available to the public. |
| Bond amount | The amount the jail says it can provide for a specific inmate. |
| Admit timing | Current, last 24 hour, last 7 day, or custom date-range booking activity. |
| Arresting agency | The agency tied to the booking or search result. |
| Mugshot image | The platform can handle mugshot images and a no-photo fallback when available. |
County Jail vs State Prison Lookup
A person arrested in DeWitt County may pass through more than one custody system. The county jail roster covers local booking and local custody. A sentenced prisoner assigned to Clarence N. Stevenson Unit or another TDCJ unit must be searched through the TDCJ inmate search. Federal custody belongs in the BOP inmate locator when the person is in BOP custody, while immigration detention is checked through the ICE Online Detainee Locator.
| System | Who It Covers | Where to Search |
|---|---|---|
| County jail | Pretrial detainees, local sentences, warrant holds, bond holds | Citizen Connect and jail phone |
| TDCJ | Sentenced adult Texas prisoners | TDCJ inmate search |
| BOP | Federal inmates from 1982 to present | BOP inmate locator |
| ICE | Immigration detainees after transfer to ICE custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator |
| Notifications | Custody-status alerts where supported | VINELink Texas |
DeWitt County Detention Facilities
Two facilities matter for DeWitt County inmate population research, but they serve different custody roles. The county jail handles local booking and current local custody. Stevenson Unit is a state prison for sentenced adult male prisoners in TDCJ custody. Treating those systems as one roster will send a search to the wrong place.
- DeWitt County Jail holds local pretrial detainees, county-jail sentence cases, warrant holds, bond holds, parole/TDCJ holds, and some contract or federal hold entries booked through the jail.
- Clarence N. Stevenson Unit is a TDCJ state prison in Cuero for sentenced adult male prisoners at G1, G2, and G4 custody levels.
DeWitt County Custody Terms
Several local roster terms have plain meanings. Knowing the difference helps keep a jail search separate from a court search or prison search.
- Admit
- A jail entry during a recent or custom date range.
- Current confinement
- A person now listed as held in the county jail.
- Detainer
- A hold request from another agency that may affect release.
- PR bond
- A personal recognizance bond, meaning release on promise and court conditions.
- Expunction
- A legal process under Texas law for removal or destruction of eligible arrest records.
DeWitt County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the DeWitt County inmate population?
The county jail snapshot was 88 people against 161 rated beds in the TCJS June 1, 2026 report. The incarceration-rate workbook listed an average daily population of 71. Those are county jail figures, not the TDCJ population at Stevenson Unit.
How do I search DeWitt County inmates online?
Use Citizen Connect for current confinements and admits by date range. If the person has been sentenced to TDCJ, use the TDCJ locator instead. Call the jail when the roster is blocked or does not answer a custody question.
Does the jail roster show court dates?
No. The sheriff’s detention page says the jail does not schedule or maintain court dockets and does not have pending court-date information. Use the county clerk or district clerk for court records after arrest.
Are federal or immigration detainees on the county roster?
They may appear only when booked or held through the DeWitt County Jail. A person in BOP custody belongs in the BOP locator, and immigration detention after ICE transfer belongs in the ICE locator.