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Rains County Jail Overview

Rains County Sheriff's Office & Jail is the only detention facility identified in the Rains County facility map. The official county page lists the sheriff's office and jail together, so the building functions as both a law-enforcement administrative office and a county detention facility. It is operated by the Rains County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Michael Hopkins. David Holman is listed as Chief Deputy, Jeremy Caviness as Jail Administrator, and April Ureta as Administrative Assistant, Sex Offender Registrar, and the published records request contact.

The jail holds local jail populations rather than sentenced state-prison populations. TCJS category fields show Rains County reporting local pretrial Class A and B misdemeanants, pretrial felons, convicted misdemeanants, bench warrants, parole violators, pretrial state-jail felons, convicted state-jail felons, and paper-ready TDCJ-sentenced inmates in different months. That mix matters when searching. A person may be held at the county jail before trial, held on a warrant or detainer, or waiting for transfer after sentencing.

The official sheriff page is the local source for the jail's contact details, staff names, records email, and office hours.

The screenshot shows why the phone and records-request channels are central for this facility: the county page lists contact points but does not show a public roster link.

Rains County Jail Population

TCJS reports list Rains County Sheriff's Office & Jail with a rated capacity of 47 beds. The current population rows reviewed in the research file show 27 total jail inmates on June 1, 2026, which was 57.4 percent of capacity, and 34 total jail inmates on May 1, 2026, which was 72.3 percent of capacity. April 1, 2026 showed 24 total inmates. These are monthly county jail figures, not a live roster and not a statewide prison count.

TCJS population reports are the official source for later monthly changes. The jail's small size means changes in booking, release, bond, or transfer activity can move the population percentage quickly. The June 2026 Rains row included pretrial felony, state-jail felony, parole-violator, and convicted state-jail felony categories, so the facility should not be described as only a misdemeanor jail.

Lookup Rains County Jail Inmates

No official Rains County Sheriff's Office & Jail public roster, booking report, or mugshot gallery was located on the county or sheriff pages reviewed. For a current inmate lookup, the safest local path is the jail phone line. For a record copy, booking photo request, or older custody question, use the records email and the open-records form linked from the sheriff page. If the person has been sentenced and transferred, the local jail will not be the final locator. Use TDCJ for state prison, BOP for federal prison, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention.

1. Call 903-473-3181 and ask whether the person is currently held at Rains County Sheriff's Office & Jail.
2. Provide the full legal name, date of birth, and arrest or booking date if known.
3. Ask whether the person was released, transferred, never booked, or held under another agency's detainer.
4. For documents or booking photos, email april.ureta@co.rains.tx.us or use the sheriff's open-records request form.
5. Search TDCJ, BOP, or ICE ODLS if local custody is not confirmed.

Rains County Jail Contact

The sheriff page publishes one main jail and sheriff's office phone number rather than a separate online booking desk. Use that number for custody confirmation, bond status, visitation checks, release timing, and jail-service questions. The same official page lists April Ureta as the records request contact and provides the records email used for open-records requests.

Rains County Jail Visits

The official sheriff page does not publish a visitation calendar, visit length, video-visit vendor, visitor dress code, child visitor rule, or lobby check-in schedule. That means visitation should be confirmed by phone before anyone travels to the jail. Ask whether the inmate is eligible for visits, whether visits are in person or video, what ID is required, what time visitors must check in, and whether any bond, court, medical, discipline, or classification issue affects the visit.

Note: Confirm custody and visitation with the jail before travel because the county does not publish a full visit schedule online.

Rains County Jail Mail Money

Rains County's official page does not publish a mail-address format, commissary deposit vendor, phone provider, tablet program, video service, or fee schedule. Search results indicated CorrectPay may list Rains County Jail for services, but the county page did not confirm that as an official link. Do not send money, create a vendor account, or mail books based only on a search-result snippet. Call the jail first and ask for the current approved methods.

Rains County Jail Booking

Rains County does not publish a local booking manual, so booking details must be described with care. After an arrest by the sheriff, city police, DPS, a constable, or another agency in the county, the person may be transported to Rains County Sheriff's Office & Jail for intake. Typical intake includes identity checks, warrant and hold checks, property inventory, medical or mental-health screening, booking photograph, fingerprints, charge entry, classification, and placement in a holding or housing area.

The first formal legal checkpoint is magistration under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17. The magistrate informs the arrested person of rights, addresses counsel, and considers bail if allowed. Rains County's District Clerk publishes criminal docket PDFs, so court settings may appear after charges are filed. Booking charges and court charges can differ because the prosecutor may decline, amend, add, or reduce charges after review.

Rains County Jail Records

For a booking record, jail record, arrest report, incident report, or booking photo, use the sheriff's records request channel. Texas Government Code Chapter 552 supports access to public information, while law-enforcement exceptions and privacy rules can limit some details. Government Code 552.108(c) preserves access to basic information about an arrested person, an arrest, or a crime even when other law-enforcement information may be withheld. Juvenile records, medical data, protected victim details, and active investigations may be restricted.

No official Rains County mugshot gallery was found. A booking photo request should go through the records email or open-records form rather than an unofficial commercial site. If a person seeks removal from a private criminal-record publisher after expunction or nondisclosure, Texas Business & Commerce Code Chapter 109 may be relevant, but that is different from changing an official jail record.

About Rains County Jail

The jail is part of a rural East Texas sheriff's office that also handles patrol, investigations, 911 coordination, sex-offender registration, records requests, and local public-safety duties. The sheriff page even includes livestock registration text asking owners for herd location, gate codes, vehicle descriptions, brands, contacts, and address details so the office can respond when livestock gets out. That local detail fits the facility's role: one small sheriff's office carries jail operations and broad county law-enforcement duties.

The jail is separate from the Rains County courthouse annex used by courts and clerk offices. The annex address appears in court-record and prosecutor materials, while jail custody and jail records route to East North Street. The Texas Historical Commission's Rains County courthouse material concerns the restored 1908 courthouse, not the jail building. Keep those locations separate when planning a jail visit, clerk visit, bond question, or records request.