Search the Burnet County Inmate Population

Burnet County Inmate Population Overview

The Burnet County inmate population is centered on Burnet County Jail, the sheriff-operated local jail at 900 County Lane. The sheriff describes the jail as the place that receives and houses people lawfully committed within Burnet County jurisdiction until release from confinement. That local count can include recent arrestees, pretrial detainees waiting for court action, people serving county jail commitments, ICE detainees, and prisoners held for the U.S. Marshals. The same county also contains the Ellen Halbert Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice facility, but that state facility is not part of the county jail roster.

The practical result is that one Burnet County inmate population number does not answer every custody question. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards reports county jail capacity and population data, while TDCJ reports state-prison custody through its own locator. A local arrest usually starts with the sheriff and the Odyssey jail records system. A sentenced felony placement, by contrast, moves into the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system after court action and state classification. Federal and immigration custody can be more complex because Burnet County Jail is also listed by the sheriff as an ICE over-72-hour holding facility and a U.S. Marshals holding facility.

Burnet County Inmate Population Statistics

The strongest population figures in the research come from the sheriff's jail page and the Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports. The sheriff says the Burnet County Jail houses 587 offenders, and the TCJS current population spreadsheet inspected from the June 2026 report set also lists Burnet with 587 beds. The same TCJS population row inspected listed 326 total jail inmates. A separate TCJS incarceration-rate spreadsheet listed Burnet County population as 55,722, local jail population as 137, and jail incarceration rate as 2.46 per 1,000 population. Those spreadsheets use different report structures, so each figure should be tied to its source.

The TCJS population reports page is the official source shown in the captured research image. That page links the current county jail population reports used for Burnet County capacity and population checks.

Because the report is statewide, Burnet County figures should be read with the row source and report month rather than treated as a live jail roster.

Burnet County Inmate Population Trends

The TCJS rows inspected show a Burnet County inmate population that stayed below listed capacity but moved sharply across the period reviewed. The jail was listed at the same 587-bed capacity in each row. Total population rose from the mid-400s in late 2024 to a high inspected row of 517, then dropped in later rows to the low and mid-300s. That movement matters because Burnet County Jail is not only a local pretrial jail. ICE and USMS holding can add a federal or immigration component to the daily population.

The research did not locate an official annual booking total or average length of stay. Those rows are omitted rather than estimated. The reliable trend is the capacity-to-population relationship, not a demographic split, because the spreadsheet header mapping for race, sex, and offense-class columns was not reliable enough to label those fields.

For current use, the safest reading is simple: the TCJS reports describe jail population and capacity, while the Odyssey jail record search identifies people who may be in custody. Those tools answer related but different questions.

Who Is in Burnet County Custody

Burnet County custody has several layers. The local jail population can include people booked after arrest by Burnet County agencies, people held on county commitments, federal pretrial prisoners in U.S. Marshals custody, and immigration detainees. The visitation schedule also shows public-facing groups such as Separation/PC, Minimum/Medium, Maximum/Medium, Females, and USMS. Those terms are classification labels, not the same thing as a conviction or sentence.

Pretrial detainee

A person held after arrest while charges, bond, or court dates are still pending.

S.O. number

A Burnet jail identifier needed for EarthClass mail, legal mail, and mailed funds.

USMS hold

Federal custody or detention-services status tied to the U.S. Marshals Service.

ICE hold

Immigration custody or detention context; Burnet County Jail is listed as an over-72-hour ICE holding facility.

Burnet County Jail Population Laws

Texas law explains why Burnet County jail population and jail records are split among public portals, sheriff records requests, court records, and state reporting. Texas Government Code Chapter 552, the Texas Public Information Act, makes public information presumed available unless an exception or confidentiality law applies. Texas Government Code Chapter 511 creates the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and supports county jail standards. Section 511.0101 supports county jail population reports to TCJS. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 49.18 covers custodial death reporting.

Search Burnet County Inmates

The official county lookup path is the Burnet County Odyssey Public Access login, linked from the sheriff's jail page as Inmate Search. The sheriff publishes visitor credentials on the jail page: User ID visitor and Password visitor. After login, the main menu exposes Jail Records, Jail Bond Records, Criminal Case Records, Incident Records, and Court Calendar. Direct inspection of the inner jail search pages triggered a Human Verification screen during research, so the search path is confirmed but the exact inner fields are not all verified from a sample profile.

1. Open the Burnet County Sheriff's jail page or the Odyssey Public Access login page.
2. Use the public visitor credentials published by the sheriff.
3. Select Jail Records for custody and booking information.
4. Select Jail Bond Records if the question is bond-related.
5. If the person is not found, check spelling, aliases, recent release, transfer, TDCJ, BOP, ICE, and IVSS/VINE.

The Odyssey Public Access main menu screenshot shows the record groups available after login.

That menu is important because jail records and court case records sit in the same portal but answer different questions.

Burnet County Jail Record Fields

The research could not capture a full live jail profile because of Human Verification, but Burnet County sources confirm several fields and record concepts. Mail, legal mail, and mailed funds require the inmate's full booking name and S.O. number. The portal menu separates Jail Records from Jail Bond Records. The jail FAQ says jail staff do not know court dates, so court-date searches must go through court records or the court calendar.

Burnet County Jail vs TDCJ

A Burnet County jail roster search is not the same as a Texas prison search. Burnet County Jail is the local sheriff facility for booking, bond, release, local holds, ICE holding, and USMS holding. The TDCJ inmate search is for sentenced state prisoners and state custody. The Ellen Halbert Unit is physically in Burnet County, but it is a TDCJ Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facility for female offenders and is not searched through the Burnet jail records path.

State Federal ICE Searches

When a Burnet County inmate search fails in the county portal, the next channel depends on custody type. The Texas IVSS offender search can search by name, SID number, or current TDCJ number and supports notification subscriptions. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present after BOP designation. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System searches adult immigration custody by A-Number or biographical details and excludes people under age 18. The Texas Attorney General victim notification page points victims to IVSS-Counties and 24-hour phone support at 866-268-8959.

Burnet County Detention Facilities

The facility map has two entries. The county jail is the starting point for Burnet County arrest, booking, jail roster, mugshot, visitation, mail, and commissary questions. The state facility is a different custody system, even though it is also in Burnet.

• Burnet County Jail holds local pretrial detainees, county jail commitments, ICE over-72-hour detainees, and U.S. Marshals prisoners.
• Ellen Halbert Unit is a TDCJ female SAFPF for sentenced felony offenders assigned to state substance-abuse programming.

Burnet County Inmate Population FAQ