Goliad County Jail Inmate Lookup and Facility Details

Goliad County Jail Overview

Goliad County Jail is operated by the Goliad County Sheriff's Office. The physical jail address used for visitor and custody routing is 701 E. End St., Goliad, TX 77963. The county sheriff page also lists the sheriff office at 700 E. End St., which appears to refer to the same sheriff and jail complex area on East End Street. The dedicated jail phone line is 361-645-8259, while sheriff administration is listed at 361-645-1262 and dispatch at 361-645-3451.

The official sheriff jail page describes Goliad County Jail as the county's lawful detention facility and emphasizes safety, security, professional correctional staffing, and control of the facility. Sheriff Roy Boyd is identified on official sheriff materials, and the jail page identifies Gary Diaz as Jail Administrator. The facility is a county jail, not a state prison, federal prison, or immigration detention center.

The official sheriff jail page shows the local jail information, including the jail administrator reference and the work-detail program note.

The image is useful because it is the local source tying the facility to its sheriff-operated jail function and the minimum-security work detail program.

Goliad County Jail Capacity and Population

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards current population materials list Goliad County Jail with a rated capacity of 48 beds. The current TCJS population row reviewed for June 2026 showed 20 people in custody, which equals 41.7 percent of capacity. The June 2026 incarceration-rate workbook listed Goliad County countywide population at 7,221, average daily population at 15, and an incarceration rate of 2.08 in the TCJS reporting context.

Small-county jail numbers can move quickly. In the inspected TCJS rate workbook, Goliad County's ADP was around 27 during parts of 2024 and declined to about 15 by early and mid 2026. A few arrests, releases, warrant holds, or transfers can noticeably change the percentage of capacity in a 48-bed jail.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Goliad County Jail

No official public Goliad County Jail roster was located in the researched county and sheriff sources. The correct lookup method is a fallback chain: call the jail, check VINELink Texas, then use written open records for copies or other custody systems if the person is no longer in county custody.

1. Call Goliad County Jail at 361-645-8259 with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, and arresting agency if known.
2. Ask whether the person is currently housed at the jail, whether bond has been set, whether a transfer is pending, and whether release or visitation information is available.
3. Search VINELink Texas under the Texas portal because the official county sheriff page links to VINELink for custody status.
4. Use the sheriff's open-records request process if the question is about a copy of a booking, incident, or criminal record on file with the sheriff.
5. Search TDCJ for a sentenced state prisoner, BOP or U.S. Marshals routing for federal custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention.

The county jail phone line is the best starting point for newly booked people because online systems may lag during intake, release processing, or transfer. VINELink is useful for notification registration where a matching record exists, but it should not replace direct jail confirmation for urgent questions.

No official Goliad County Sheriff's Office mobile app with an inmate roster or warrant lookup was located in the sources reviewed, so the documented search path remains the jail phone line, VINELink, written sheriff open records, TDCJ, BOP, USMS, and ICE ODLS.

Goliad County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail line for custody, bond, visitation-entry, mail, and release questions. Use sheriff administration for general office routing and the written open-records process for record copies. The sheriff Services page says requests for criminal records on file with the Goliad County Sheriff's Office must be submitted in writing on the office's open-records request form.

Dispatch is listed at 361-645-3451, investigations at 361-645-8171, and civil at 361-645-7927 on the sheriff contact materials. Those lines serve different office functions and should not be treated as substitutes for the jail information line when the question is current custody.

Visiting Someone at Goliad County Jail

No official public visitation schedule, video visitation vendor, visitor approval form, dress code, child-visitor rule, attorney-visit policy, or remote-visit fee schedule was located in the researched Goliad County or sheriff pages. Anyone planning to visit should call the jail at 361-645-8259 before traveling and ask whether visits are available, whether they are in person or video, and what identification is required.

Ask about property limits, lobby entry, lockers, minor visitors, appointment requirements, attorney access, and whether the person has completed intake. The official pages inspected did not provide parking rules, ADA entrance instructions, security screening details, or visitor waiting-area rules.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Goliad County Jail

The official Goliad sources did not publish a mail format, phone vendor, video vendor, commissary vendor, money-deposit method, or deposit fee schedule. That means the safest path is to call the jail before sending anything. Confirm the inmate's custody status first, then ask for the exact mail format, whether books or photos are accepted, whether legal mail uses a separate procedure, and whether deposits are accepted at the jail or through a specific approved provider.

If the person has moved to TDCJ custody, Goliad County Jail rules no longer control visitation, mail, phone, or inmate-money procedures. Use the assigned TDCJ unit's state rules instead.

Booking and Intake at Goliad County Jail

A person arrested in Goliad County by a sheriff's deputy, local police officer, DPS trooper, or other law-enforcement agency may be transported to Goliad County Jail if held locally. Goliad-specific official sources do not publish a detailed booking manual, but normal county-jail intake can include identity verification, warrant and hold checks, property inventory, fingerprints, a booking photo, health screening, classification, housing assignment, and bond or magistrate processing.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 governs magistrate warnings after arrest, and Chapter 17 addresses bond. The local jail can answer whether bond has been set and whether a hold, warrant, detainer, or pending transfer blocks release. Court-filed charges may differ from booking allegations, so formal case questions should move to the clerk or court record path after filing.

Programs, Work Detail, and Conditions

The strongest local program detail located for Goliad County Jail is the Inmate Work Detail Crew. The sheriff jail page says inmates classified as minimum security risk may have the opportunity to work outside the jail under officer supervision. The work detail provides county services such as landscaping, trash pickup for commissioner precincts, small construction projects, and related local-service work.

No official GED program, substance-abuse program, vocational training schedule, chaplaincy schedule, tablet program, reentry partnership, medical-request process, grievance form, construction year, pod layout, ACA accreditation page, or local certificate page was located in the official materials reviewed. Texas Commission on Jail Standards remains the state jail-standards authority and the source for the population and capacity figures used here.