Madison County Jail Inmate Lookup

Madison County Jail Overview

Madison County Jail is operated by the Madison County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Bobby Adams. The facility is the county jail for Madison County, Texas, and it serves the local custody role that most families and record searchers mean when they ask for the Madison County inmate roster. People shown through this jail may include pretrial detainees, people arrested on local warrants, local misdemeanor sentences, holds, and other jail categories reported through the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. It is not the search source for sentenced TDCJ prisoners at Jim Ferguson Unit.

The official sheriff page lists the jail at 2005 E. Main Street in Madisonville and separates that address from the sheriff's office address at 3301 E. Main Street. TCJS current population reporting lists Madison County Jail with 51 beds. The research file did not locate a published jail administrator, separate annex, named housing units, or local classification-level chart. The public-facing details that are documented are the Interop roster, visitation hours, JailATM trust-fund service, the jail lobby kiosk, and sheriff records-request links.

The Madison County Sheriff's Office page is the local source that ties the jail address, jail phone, visitation schedule, JailATM link, records forms, and roster link together.

That official county page is the best starting point when a visitor needs both the jail roster and the practical jail-contact details in one place.

Madison County Jail Capacity and Population

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards population workbook for the June 1, 2026 reporting date lists Madison County with a rated jail capacity of 51 and a total jail population of 40. TCJS population reports are first-day-of-month counts submitted for jail-standards reporting. They should not be read as a monthly average, a yearly booking total, or a guarantee that the live Interop roster will show the same count at any later moment.

In the same TCJS row, the jail was at 78.4 percent of rated capacity. The research also notes local pretrial and sentenced jail categories in the county row, but those categories should not be converted into a full demographic profile because the public source is a monthly reporting snapshot. Annual bookings, average length of stay, and a formal demographic table were not located in the official materials inspected for this build.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Madison County Jail

For county jail custody, use the official Madison County Interop roster. It is linked from the sheriff page and includes Current Inmates, 24 Hours Arrests, and Inmates by Arrest Date tabs. The roster does not cover TDCJ state prisoners at Jim Ferguson Unit, federal sentenced prisoners, or ICE custody. If the person has been sentenced to TDCJ, use the TDCJ locator instead of the Madison County roster.

1. Open the Madison County Interop roster from the sheriff page or go directly to the roster portal.
2. Choose Current Inmates for present local custody, 24 Hours Arrests for recent bookings, or Inmates by Arrest Date if the arrest date is the best clue.
3. Search by last name, first name, or both. The inspected roster allows the fields to be left blank to return a roster list.
4. Review the roster card for name, status, sex, height, weight, arrest date, arresting agency text, days in jail, total bond, warrant number when shown, statute, charge description, count, and court.

The Interop current-inmates page is the county's official roster interface for people presently shown in Madison County Jail custody.

The roster view matters because it shows both profile-level fields and charge rows, while still leaving some details unpublished, including home address, date of birth, housing unit, and projected release date in the inspected cards.

Madison County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail address for visits, lobby kiosk deposits, and jail-specific questions. Use the sheriff's office address for agency business when the sheriff page or staff direct the request there. The published public phone is the shared jail/sheriff routing number, and the sheriff page tells callers to follow prompts.

Visiting Someone at Madison County Jail

Madison County publishes a simple daily schedule by inmate sex. Female visitation is in the morning and male visitation is in the afternoon. The sheriff page states that an appointment must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance. It does not publish visit length, visitor limit, dress code, age rules, ID requirements, holiday rules, video-visitation options, or attorney-visit procedures in the online sources inspected. Confirm those details with the jail before traveling.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Madison County Jail

The sheriff page documents inmate trust-fund deposits through JailATM and says people may also go to the jail and use the kiosk in the jail lobby. Local fees, accepted kiosk payment methods, commissary ordering dates, phone vendor, video-call vendor, mail-address format, and prohibited-mail rules were not located in the official online sources. Do not assume a postcard-only rule, a required booking number, or a specific phone provider unless jail staff confirm it.

The sheriff page links to JailATM for trust-fund deposits connected to Madison County Jail.

Because vendor fees and deposit timing can change, confirm the inmate account name and any payment limits before sending money or using the lobby kiosk.

Booking and Intake at Madison County Jail

Madison County does not publish a step-by-step booking manual in the research sources. The safe local sequence is based on the roster fields and Texas procedure: an arrest by the sheriff's office, Madisonville Police Department, DPS, or another agency; transport to Madison County Jail; intake processing; booking-photo capture; entry into the jail management system; charge or warrant entry; bond-field updates; and publication in the roster when the record is eligible for the public view.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 requires an arrested person to be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay for warnings and bail-related proceedings. Madison County roster charge rows may list Magistrate Court, which fits that early post-arrest stage. The roster can show a Total Bond amount or NOT SET, but it does not explain every release condition. Call the jail before posting bond or traveling, especially when a warrant, hold, not-set bond, or out-of-county agency may affect release.

About Madison County Jail

Madison County Jail is the county's local detention point, while Jim Ferguson Unit is a separate TDCJ prison located in the same county. That distinction is important for inmate-population searches because a person arrested locally may appear on the Madison County Interop roster, but a person sentenced to state prison will be searched through TDCJ after transfer. Federal sentenced prisoners use the BOP locator, and immigration custody uses ICE ODLS when applicable.

The official sources did not locate local jail programs, a public inmate handbook, a medical-request procedure, a grievance policy, work-release details, or a commissary schedule for Madison County Jail. The confirmed local facts are the sheriff operator, address, phone, Interop roster, visitation schedule, JailATM and kiosk deposits, records-request links, and TCJS capacity and population reporting.