DeWitt County Jail Roster Overview
The official DeWitt County jail roster is the Southern Software Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements portal. It is linked from the DeWitt County Sheriff's Office detention search path and is built around current confinement, recent admit, charge, and arresting-agency searches. The portal header identifies the DeWitt County Sheriff's Office and shows public safety contact lines, while the roster itself uses tabs for different search needs.
Use the roster for a person believed to be held in the DeWitt County Jail. That is the local booking facility for sheriff arrests, Cuero Police Department arrests, Yorktown Police Department arrests, DPS cases, constable cases, and other arrests booked into the county system. The same portal can show regional or federal arresting agencies when a person is physically booked through DeWitt County, but it is not the main locator for sentenced Texas prisoners or people already moved to federal or immigration custody.
The sheriff's detention page sets a clear public-information boundary: jail staff can provide custody status, charges, and bond amount. The jail does not schedule court dockets, give pending court dates, pass messages to inmates, discuss medical questions that would violate HIPAA, or disclose confidential commissary account details. That boundary matters because a roster entry is a custody record, not a full court file.
Use DeWitt County Inmate Search
The Citizen Connect roster has several routes because not every search starts with a name. Current confinement works best when the person is believed to be in jail now. Recent admits help when a booking is new. Charge search helps when a family member knows the offense phrase but not the booking date. Arresting-agency search helps when the arrest came from DeWitt Co SO, Cuero PD, Yorktown PD, DPS, a constable office, or another listed agency.
- Open the DeWitt County Inmate Confinements portal in a live browser session.
- Choose Current Confinements first for a person who may be in the DeWitt County Jail right now.
- Use Get Last 24 Hour Admits or Get Last 7 Days Admits for a recent booking that may be easier to find by admit period.
- Use Admits by Date Range when the booking date is known, and keep the range inside the portal's published limit.
- Search by charge or arresting agency only when those facts are known well enough to narrow the result set.
- Open the result in the live portal to check custody, charges, bond, and any displayed booking image.
The portal can show reCAPTCHA or throttling behavior if too many requests are made. If the page does not load a profile, use the jail phone or in-person route rather than scraping direct AJAX endpoints, because the research found those endpoints to be session-bound.
DeWitt County Roster Search Fields
DeWitt County inmate records in Citizen Connect are organized by search tabs rather than one single name box. The published page exposes current confinements, date-based admits, charge search, and arresting-agency search. After results load, the page script also references result filtering, agency filtering, and sorting.
The official Citizen Connect search page is shown in the roster screenshot below. It is useful because the tabs tell readers what kind of DeWitt County jail record they can search before calling the jail.
The image shows why Current Confinements and recent admits are separate from charge and agency searches, which helps avoid mixing current custody with older admission searches.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current Confinements | tab/button | optional | Opens current confinement results through Get Current Confinements. |
| Get Last 24 Hour Admits | button | optional | Loads admissions from the last 24 hours. |
| Get Last 7 Days Admits | button | optional | Loads admissions from the last seven days. |
| Custom date range | radio | optional | Used in the Admits by Date Range tab. |
| Start date / End date | text/date picker | required for custom range | Use MM/DD/YYYY format and keep the range within the portal's allowed span. |
| Charge | text | optional | Charge-search field with example text such as DUI. |
| Arresting Agency | dropdown | optional | Includes local agencies such as DeWitt Co SO, Cuero PD, Yorktown PD, constables, DPS, and regional or federal entries. |
| Search / agency filter / sort | result controls | optional | Referenced by page JavaScript after results load. |
DeWitt County Inmate Record Fields
The safest reading of a DeWitt County inmate profile is narrow and practical. The jail confirms whether the person is in custody, what charges are listed, and what bond amount is shown. Citizen Connect is designed to show confinement and admit records, and its code references mugshot images plus a no-photo fallback. Full profile sampling was blocked by live-session controls, so a specific field should be verified in the live profile before relying on it.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Custody status | Whether the jail can confirm the person is in DeWitt County custody. |
| Charges | The charges available from the jail and charge-search tab, which may differ from later court-filed charges. |
| Bond amount | The amount the jail says it can provide for a person in custody. |
| Booking or admit timing | Current confinement, last 24 hour admits, last 7 day admits, or a date-range admission record. |
| Arresting agency | The agency tied to the booking, such as DeWitt Co SO, Cuero PD, Yorktown PD, DPS, or another listed agency. |
| Mugshot / booking photo | The roster platform can handle mugshot images and a NoMugshot fallback, but live display must be verified. |
| Court date | The jail does not schedule or maintain dockets, so court dates must be checked with the proper clerk. |
| Medical or commissary details | Medical questions and confidential commissary account data are not public jail information. |
Note: A jail charge is an arrest or booking allegation, while the court record tracks what the prosecutor files after review.
DeWitt County Jail Contact
When the online DeWitt County inmate records search does not answer a custody question, use the jail contact route. The sheriff's site gives separate public lines for administration, dispatch, and jail matters, and the county government also posts the DeWitt County Sheriff office listing. Use the jail number for custody, charges, and bond questions and the clerk route for court dates.
DeWitt County Jail
208 E. Live Oak St., Suite C
Cuero, TX 77954
Jail: 361-275-0034
Fax: 361-275-5005
DeWitt County Sheriff's Office
208 East Live Oak Street
Cuero, TX 77954
Dispatch: 361-275-5734
Administrative: 361-275-0899
The sheriff's homepage also advertises a DeWitt County Sheriff's Office mobile app for resources, tools, news, and information. The research did not confirm store links or an app-only inmate roster, so the official website and Citizen Connect portal remain the main online custody channels.
DeWitt County Jail Visitation
The DeWitt County Sheriff's Office detention page publishes jail visitation by inmate group. Visitors should confirm custody, visit eligibility, entrance rules, and any schedule changes with the jail before traveling. The same page states that a standard visit is 20 minutes unless the visitor lives more than 300 miles away as shown on valid ID, in which case the visit is 40 minutes. One visit is allowed per person per day.
The DeWitt detention center information page is the source for the visitation and money-deposit rules used here.
The detention page also explains inmate mail, property release, money deposits, and the limits on what jail staff will discuss by phone.
| Group | Days | Times | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Wednesday and Saturday | 0800-1100 and 1300-1530 | 20 minutes, or 40 minutes for qualified long-distance visitors with valid ID. |
| Females | Sunday and Monday | 1300-1500 | Same general visit-length rule. |
| Trustees | Sunday and Monday | 0800-1100 and 1500-1600 | Same general visit-length rule. |
DeWitt County Inmate Contact Options
Mail should be addressed with the inmate's name, care of DeWitt County Jail, 208 E. Live Oak St., Cuero Texas 77954. The jail says writing a letter is the best way to start contact because the public cannot call or speak to an inmate directly. Inmates must initiate outgoing calls through collect calling or a prepaid phone card.
For commissary money, the jail lobby kiosk accepts credit cards and paper currency. Access Secure Deposits is available by phone at 866-345-1884, and online deposits are listed through inmatedeposits.com. Money orders mailed to the jail are not accepted and are returned through USPS. The jail also says it provides necessary items and does not accept personal property items from the public.
Note: Confirm current custody with the DeWitt County Jail before sending money, arranging a visit, or planning property release.
DeWitt County Custody Fallbacks
DeWitt County inmate records can leave the county roster when custody moves to another system. A person sentenced to TDCJ custody should be searched through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search, not Citizen Connect. TDCJ says its online data is updated on working days only and is at least 24 hours old. That statewide tool also matters because the Clarence N. Stevenson Unit is a TDCJ prison in DeWitt County, not a county jail.
Federal and immigration custody require different lookups. Use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator for federal inmates from 1982 to present, and use the ICE Online Detainee Locator for immigration detention. For custody-status notification, use VINELink Texas where the agency and record type participate.
| Custody Type | Where to Look | Best Use |
|---|---|---|
| County pretrial or local sentence | Citizen Connect and jail phone | Current jail custody, charges, bond, recent admits. |
| Sentenced Texas prisoner | TDCJ inmate search | State prison location, offenses, projected release details. |
| Federal inmate | BOP inmate locator | BOP custody or released federal records from 1982 forward. |
| Immigration detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator | ICE custody after transfer or immigration detention. |
| Victim notification | VINELink Texas | Notification when the record and agency participate. |
DeWitt County Booking and Bond
After arrest, intake normally includes transport to the jail, identity checks, property inventory, screening, booking photo and fingerprints, charge entry, bond or magistration steps, classification, and housing assignment. DeWitt County's local roster term for a recent booking is "admit," which is why the portal offers last 24 hour admits, last 7 day admits, and custom admit-date searches.
Bond information should start with the roster or the jail phone. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 17 governs bail and bond concepts, but the local jail record is where a current DeWitt County bond amount is confirmed. A hold or detainer from TDCJ parole, another county, U.S. Marshals, ICE, or another agency can prevent release even when a local bond issue is addressed.
- Admit
- A jail entry during a date range in the Citizen Connect portal.
- Current confinement
- A person currently held in the DeWitt County Jail.
- Detainer
- A hold request from another agency that can affect release.
- PR bond
- A personal recognizance release on promise and court-ordered conditions.