Bowie County Detention Center Inmate Lookup

Bowie County Detention Center Overview

Bowie County Detention Center is the county jail/detention-center building at 105 West Front Street, Texarkana, TX 75501. The official visitation request form uses the combined heading "Bi-State/Bowie County Detention Center Inmate Visitation Request Form," but its submission instructions send completed forms to Bowie County Detention Center, C/O Control, at the Front Street address. In the public roster data, this location is separated from the Bi-State Justice Center and appears as the Bowie County Detention Center housing location with roster code ANNEX.

The facility is operated through the Bowie County Sheriff's Office, which names Sheriff Jeff Neal, lists the sheriff's main phone as 903-798-3149, and links the county's public inmate search. The people held under the ANNEX location are part of the county jail population: pretrial detainees, sentenced local inmates, parole violators, state-jail-felony categories, and other local custody classes reported to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. TDCJ state prisoners at Barry B. Telford Unit and federal prisoners at FCI Texarkana are separate custody systems and do not use the ANNEX county jail code.

Bowie County Detention Center Capacity and Population

The reliable population figure for this building is the county-system count, not a separate ANNEX-only count. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports listed Bowie County with a 921-bed jail capacity and a total jail population of 542 on June 1, 2026. The research did not locate an official bed split between the Front Street detention center and the Bi-State Justice Center, so the 921-bed figure should be read as the combined Bowie County jail system capacity.

A separate LockupLists roster snapshot on June 29, 2026 showed 504 visible public roster entries. That roster count is useful when checking current public listings, but it is not the same thing as the TCJS official population report. TCJS is the better source for capacity, average daily population, and official jail-system statistics. LockupLists is the better source for an active person search, booking number, arrest date, arresting agency, and whether the public row shows ANNEX as the housing location.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Bowie County Detention Center

Use the Bowie County Inmate Roster for a Bowie County Detention Center search. The roster is hosted on LockupLists and describes itself as the jail roster for the Bowie County Sheriff's Office. It supports name, arrest date, inmate number, booking number, age, race, sex, crime class, arresting agency, and housing-location searches. For this facility, the important housing value is Bowie County Detention Center at 105 West Front Street, which corresponds to the ANNEX location in the roster data.

1. Open the sheriff's inmate-search link or go directly to the LockupLists Bowie County roster.
2. Start with name if no identifier is known; use last name alone when spelling or middle-name order is uncertain.
3. Use Booking Number when available. Bowie sample booking numbers use a format like J26-04885.
4. Use Housing Location to separate Bowie County Detention Center / ANNEX from the Bi-State Justice Center / BS.
5. Open or expand the roster row and compare full name, inmate number, booking number, arrest date, arresting agency, charges, bond, and housing location.

If a person does not appear, check whether the custody system changed. Sentenced state prisoners move to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search. Federal sentenced inmates use the BOP inmate locator. Immigration custody uses ICE ODLS, and custody notifications may be available through VINELink Texas or the TDCJ IVSS link on the sheriff page.

Bowie County Detention Center Address and Contact

The Front Street address matters because the official visitation application directs mail or hand delivery to C/O Control there. The sheriff's office remains the main public contact point for jail information, custody confirmation, and records routing. A secondary facility line, 903-798-3505, appears in secondary jail listings, but the research did not confirm it on the county page, so use the sheriff's published main number when accuracy is critical.

Visiting Someone at Bowie County Detention Center

The official county source located for jail visits is the Bi-State/Bowie County Detention Center Inmate Visitation Request Form. The visitor, not the inmate, must complete the visitor section. The form asks for full legal name, current address, telephone number, date of birth, sex, race, Social Security number, driver's license number and state, relationship to the inmate, conviction history outside traffic violations, signature, and date. It warns that the information may be used for a National Crime Information Center background check and that falsification can lead to denial of visitation privileges.

Minors under 18 must be on the approved list and accompanied by a parent or legal guardian who is also approved. No official county visiting-days or visiting-hours schedule was located in the research, so travel should wait until the facility confirms the current schedule, approval status, housing location, and entrance instructions.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Bowie County Detention Center

For visitation paperwork, the county form gives the clearest mail routing: Bowie County Detention Center, C/O Control, 105 W. Front St., Texarkana, TX 75501. Ordinary inmate mail rules, phone-provider rules, tablet access, and video-visit vendor details were not located in an official Bowie County jail source, so those details should be confirmed with the sheriff or facility before sending time-sensitive mail or setting up an account.

The researched money and commissary source is Tiger Commissary for Bowie County Detention Center. The service selector lists Web Deposits, which place money on an inmate trust-fund account, and Order Commissary, which allows an order to be shipped to an inmate. The captured service selector did not show the transaction fee schedule, so fees should be reviewed during the vendor transaction before payment is submitted.

Booking and Intake at Bowie County Detention Center

Bowie County booking records show arrests from Bowie County Sheriff's Office, Texarkana Texas Police Department, New Boston Police Department, Texarkana Arkansas Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Parks and Wildlife, United States Marshals, and other agencies. After arrest, a person may be searched, photographed, fingerprinted, medically screened, assigned a booking number, classified, and placed in either the Bi-State Justice Center or Bowie County Detention Center public housing-location category.

The roster record can show full name, inmate number, booking number, arrest date and time, age, race, gender, physical descriptors, housing location, total bond when listed, mugshot validity, booking events, arresting agency, arrest location, offense statute text, crime class, counts, and court code when present. It does not publish full property inventory, medical-screening results, classification scoring, full court scheduling, or a cell/pod location beyond the public ANNEX or BS building-level category.

Records Requests and Custody Checks

For a current custody check, start with the LockupLists roster and verify the generated date shown by the roster. For records that are not online, use the Bowie County Sheriff's Office contact channels and, when needed, make a written request under the Texas Public Information Act. The sheriff page did not publish a dedicated jail records-request PDF, so requesters should include enough identifying detail for staff to route the request: full name, booking number if known, arrest date, housing location, arresting agency, and the type of record requested.

Victim-notification users should also consider TDCJ IVSS from the sheriff page and VINELink Texas. Those systems do not replace the county roster, but they can help with custody-status notifications when release, transfer, or state-prison movement is the main concern.