The Cass County Inmate Population
The official Cass County inmate population is centered on one local detention site, the Cass County Law Enforcement & Justice Center in Linden. The facility is operated by the Cass County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Larry Rowe. It receives sheriff arrests, city police arrests, DPS arrests, warrant bookings, parole holds, county-sentenced inmates, and some people who are ready for TDCJ transfer but still held locally.
The county jail count changes when people are booked, released on bond, sentenced, moved to TDCJ, or held for another court or agency. That means the Cass County inmate population shown in state reports is not the same thing as a live roster search. The state count is a dated snapshot. The online roster is a custody lookup for current confinements and recent admits. Both are useful, but they answer different questions.
Cass County Inmate Population Statistics
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports provide the strongest source for Cass County jail capacity and population figures. The June 1, 2026 current population row reported 87 people in the Cass County jail against a rated capacity of 96 beds. The same research file notes that the current report placed the jail at 90.625% of capacity on that date.
| Measure | Figure | Source and Date |
|---|---|---|
| Total jail population | 87 | TCJS current population report, Cass row dated June 1, 2026 |
| Rated jail capacity | 96 beds | TCJS current population report, June 2026 |
| Percent of capacity | 90.625% | TCJS current population report, June 1, 2026 |
| Incarceration-rate denominator | 28,622 | TCJS incarceration-rate report, current Cass row |
| Incarceration-rate report count | 75 | TCJS incarceration-rate report, current Cass row |
| Incarceration rate | 2.62 | TCJS incarceration-rate report, current Cass row |
The TCJS non-compliant jails page is the official place to check current compliance status. The research did not locate a Cass County consent decree, release order, or jail construction bond tied to overcrowding.
Cass County Inmate Population Trends
The recent TCJS rows show a jail that rose from lower first-of-year counts into a much tighter June 2026 snapshot. The trend matters because a 96-bed rural jail can feel strained even below total rated capacity. Male and female separation, classification, medical needs, and special holds can reduce practical bed flexibility.
The TCJS population reports page is also the source shown in the capture below. The report landing page is useful because the current spreadsheets are updated as new monthly jail population reports are posted.
| Date | Total Jail Population | Capacity | Percent of Capacity | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | 54 | 96 | 56.25% | First-of-year TCJS row |
| 2025-01-01 | 60 | 96 | 62.5% | First-of-year TCJS row |
| 2025-08-01 | 73 | 96 | 76.04% | Mid-2025 row |
| 2025-12-01 | 67 | 96 | 69.79% | End-2025 snapshot |
| 2026-05-01 | 72 | 96 | 75.0% | Month before current June row |
| 2026-06-01 | 87 | 96 | 90.625% | Highest row in the sequence reviewed |
Who Makes Up Cass County Jail Population
The TCJS June 1, 2026 row does not provide race, age, case outcome, or average length of stay for Cass County. It does, however, break the jail population into legal custody categories. The largest single category in the captured row was local male pretrial felons, which accounted for 36 of the 87 reported people. Local female pretrial felons added 6 more.
- Pretrial felony custody includes people held before final court disposition on felony-level accusations.
- Class A/B misdemeanor custody appeared in both male and female pretrial categories in the June 2026 row.
- Parole and warrant categories included bench warrants, parole violators, and parole violators with new charges.
- State transfer categories included paper-ready SAFP and convicted felony or state-jail felony entries.
- Other-agency categories were mostly zero in the report, though the roster can still show outside or state agencies as arresting agencies.
For broader local context, FRED/Census data in the research file listed Cass County resident population at 28.651 thousand in 2025. That county population figure is not a jail count, but it helps explain why the TCJS rate denominator closely tracks the county's recent resident population estimates.
Cass County Jail Capacity
Cass County's reported 87 people in a 96-bed jail left nine beds under rated capacity on paper in the June 2026 TCJS snapshot. That does not prove all housing units were easy to manage. Jails cannot use every bed interchangeably. A female housing area, medical observation need, violent classification, suicide watch, or separation order can create pressure even when the total count is below the posted capacity.
No official Cass County jail expansion plan, consent decree, or recent overcrowding litigation was found in the research file. For current compliance, the correct source remains the TCJS compliance list, not a commercial arrest site or a copied jail directory.
Laws Governing Cass County Inmates
Texas law shapes both the jail count and the public's ability to request booking information. The local roster is only one channel. If a Cass County inmate record is not online, the Texas Public Information Act remains the request path, subject to law-enforcement, juvenile, medical, victim, sealed-record, and expunction limits.
Key Statutes and Rules:
Texas Government Code Chapter 552 gives the public a way to request government records unless an exception applies.
Texas Government Code Section 552.108 can protect some law-enforcement information, while subsection (c) preserves basic information about an arrest or crime.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 controls the first appearance after arrest, including warnings and bond matters.
Title 37, Part 9 of the Texas Administrative Code contains minimum jail standards for local Texas jails.
Cass County and TDCJ Custody
No TDCJ prison was located inside Cass County in the TDCJ unit directory research. Sentenced felony prisoners from Cass County usually move into the statewide TDCJ inmate search after transfer. TDCJ's inmate information page says its online data can include location, offenses, and projected release date, but it is updated on working days only and is at least 24 hours old.
The Cass County jail roster and TDCJ locator are not duplicates. The jail roster is for local confinement and recent admits. TDCJ covers sentenced prison custody after transfer. Texas IVSS and VINELink add notification tools for custody changes.
Search Cass County Current Inmates
The official local search channel is the Cass County Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements portal. It is linked from the sheriff page and from the Citizen Connect agency home. The roster is free to open and is organized by tabs rather than a simple last-name-only search box.
The Citizen Connect screen below is the public jail roster interface for Cass County. It is useful for current confinements, recent admits, charge searches, and arresting-agency searches.
- Open the Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements page for Cass County.
- Use Current Confinements to view people currently held in the jail.
- Use Last 24 Hour Admits or Last 7 Days Admits for recent bookings.
- Use the date-range admit search when a booking date is known, keeping the visible range limit in mind.
- Search by charge text or arresting agency when the name or date is uncertain.
- If the person is not listed, call the sheriff's office at 903-756-7511 or check TDCJ, BOP, ICE, or IVSS based on custody type.
Cass County Roster Search Fields
The Cass County inmate population search is tab based. The arresting-agency dropdown is a local clue because it includes Atlanta PD, Hughes Springs PD, Linden PD, Queen City PD, DPS Cass County, parole, parks and wildlife, and outside sheriff offices. A person arrested by a city officer can still appear in the county jail roster because the county facility receives bookings from multiple agencies.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current Confinements | Tab/button | No | Runs the current jail population search. |
| Last 24 Hour Admits | Button | No | Shows recent admits from the prior day window. |
| Last 7 Days Admits | Button | No | Shows recent admits from the prior week window. |
| Start date and end date | Date fields | For custom range | Visible page warning says to limit the date range to 31 days or less. |
| Charge | Text | No | Placeholder example shown as DUI, though Texas charge wording may differ. |
| Arresting Agency | Dropdown | No | Includes local police departments, Cass County SO, DPS, parole, and outside agencies. |
Past Cass County Inmate Records
Citizen Connect is strongest for current confinement and recent admit searches. The research did not find a separate Cass County archive for old jail bookings, release lists, or annual booking logs. If a person has been released, transferred, booked under a different spelling, sealed by court order, or moved to another system, the online roster may not answer the question.
For a past booking record, contact the Cass County Sheriff's Office by phone or in writing. A written public-information request should give the person's full name, known date of birth if appropriate, booking or arrest date if known, arresting agency, charge wording, and the type of record requested. No sheriff-specific Cass County fee schedule or turnaround time was located in the official sources.
What Cass County Records Show
The public interface confirms the search categories more clearly than the final dynamic profile fields. Research could not reliably inspect live profile records outside the front-end security layer. The safe field inventory is therefore based on the public portal labels, result behavior, and source code references to mugshot image handling.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The person tied to a current confinement or admit result, subject to spelling and data-entry limits. |
| Current confinement status | Whether the result is part of the current jail population search. |
| Admit date range | Booking or admit results that match a recent or custom date search. |
| Charge | Charge text used for search and likely displayed in results, though final profile fields were not captured. |
| Arresting agency | The agency that brought the person into custody or is tied to the booking. |
| Mugshot/photo | The source includes booking-mugshot handling and a NoMugshot fallback, but photo display is not guaranteed for every record. |
Cass County Jail vs State Prison
Many failed inmate searches come from checking the wrong system. A person newly arrested in Cass County is usually a county jail lookup. A person sentenced to state prison is a TDCJ lookup. A federal defendant may involve the U.S. Marshals Service before BOP designation, and an immigration detainee uses ICE ODLS rather than the county roster.
| Custody Type | Best Search Channel | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| County pretrial or short local sentence | Cass County Citizen Connect | Current confinements, admits, charges, and arresting agency searches. |
| Sentenced Texas prisoner | TDCJ inmate information | State prison location, offenses, projected release date, and phone/email lookup channels. |
| Victim notification | VINELink Texas or Texas IVSS | Custody-status notification support, not a county warrant search. |
| Federal custody | BOP inmate locator | Federal inmates from 1982 to present after BOP records exist. |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator System | Current ICE detainees and some CBP detainees held over 48 hours. |
Cass County Detention Facilities
The facility map resolved one public detention facility page for Cass County. No separate TDCJ prison, BOP prison, ICE detention center, city jail page, or regional jail page was located in the official sources reviewed for this build.
- Cass County Law Enforcement & Justice Center - sheriff-operated county jail for local pretrial defendants, county-sentenced inmates, warrants, parole holds, state-jail felony defendants, paper-ready TDCJ inmates, and occasional outside holds when reported.
Cass County Custody Terms
Roster and court terms often use short labels. These definitions keep the jail, court, and state-prison systems separate.
- Booking
- The jail intake event that creates a local custody record.
- Confinement
- The person is physically held in jail custody.
- Detainer
- Another agency's request to hold the person or receive notice before release.
- Paper-ready inmate
- A sentenced person ready for TDCJ transfer but still held locally.
- Expunction
- A court process under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A that can remove qualifying arrest records.
Cass County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Cass County inmate population?
The June 1, 2026 TCJS current population report listed 87 people in the Cass County jail. The rated capacity was 96 beds, which placed the jail at 90.625% of capacity for that snapshot.
How do I search the Cass County inmate population?
Use the Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements portal for current county jail custody. If the person is not listed, check TDCJ for sentenced prisoners, BOP for federal custody, ICE ODLS for immigration custody, and VINELink or Texas IVSS for notification support.
Can I look up a released inmate?
The Cass County portal is built around current confinements and admits. For older booking records, contact the sheriff's office or make a written Texas Public Information Act request to the agency that holds the record.
Does Cass County have a sheriff app?
No official Cass County, Texas sheriff mobile app was located in the research. Use the web-based Citizen Connect roster and avoid apps for Cass County in other states.
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