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Burnet County Jail Overview

The Burnet County Sheriff's Office jail page identifies Burnet County Jail as the county facility that receives and houses people lawfully committed under Texas criminal and civil law until release from confinement. It is operated by the Burnet County Sheriff's Office and serves the county jail role for arrests, local commitments, bond processing, and jail records. The same official source states that the jail is certified by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and is also an over-72-hour ICE holding facility and a U.S. Marshals holding facility.

Those federal and immigration roles matter for any Burnet County Jail inmate search. A person housed in the building may be a Burnet County pretrial detainee, a county jail commitment, an immigration detainee, or a federal prisoner held for the U.S. Marshals. The county jail search can still be the first check when the person is physically in Burnet, but federal and immigration status can affect what the jail record shows, who controls release, and which outside locator should be checked next.

The official jail page screenshot that follows comes from the Burnet County Sheriff's Office jail information page, which is the source for the published jail role, search credentials, capacity statement, and federal holding notes.

The page is useful because it links jail operations, inmate search access, attorney visits, and the jail information phone in one official location.

Burnet County Jail Population

The sheriff says Burnet County Jail houses 587 offenders, and the Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports also list Burnet capacity as 587 in the inspected June 2026 report set. The current TCJS population row inspected for that report set listed 326 total inmates, which is about 55.5 percent of capacity. A separate TCJS incarceration-rate spreadsheet listed county population at 55,722, local jail population at 137, and a jail incarceration rate of 2.46 per 1,000 population.

These figures should be read with care because TCJS report files can use different definitions and row structures. The capacity source is strong because both the sheriff and TCJS align on the 587-bed figure. The jail population count is a point-in-time report, not a promise that the same number is current on another day. Burnet County Jail also has a mixed custody profile because the sheriff confirms ICE and USMS holding, so the count is not just a simple list of Burnet residents arrested by local police.

Look Up Burnet County Jail Inmates

Burnet County's official jail lookup path is the Odyssey Public Access login linked from the sheriff's inmate search page. The sheriff publishes the public credentials as Username: visitor and Password: visitor. After sign-in, the Odyssey landing page exposes Jail Records and Jail Bond Records, along with Criminal Case Records, Court Calendar, and Incident Records. Automated research reached the portal menu, but direct inspection of the inner search pages met a human-verification screen, so the exact inner jail search boxes were not verified.

1. Open the 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 or booking information.
4. Select Jail Bond Records when the question is bond-related.
5. If the person is not found, check spelling, aliases, release, transfer, federal custody, ICE custody, and state-prison transfer.

Burnet County Jail Contact

The facility contact point for jail information is the Burnet County Jail phone line. The sheriff's administrative office is listed separately on the sheriff website, but jail questions that are not answered online are routed to the jail information number. Court dates are not a jail-staff function. The jail FAQ says users should contact the individual courts or search public records online through Burnet County court records when the issue is a hearing date or filed court case.

Burnet County Jail Visits

The official Burnet County Jail visitation page says online visitation can be conducted through Web Connect Network. For onsite visits, the inmate must not be in precautionary isolation and must be cleared by medical staff. Visitors should arrive one-half hour early with valid government-issued picture ID, and the jail stops collecting IDs 15 minutes before scheduled visitation. Late visitors and visitors without picture ID are not allowed to visit.

Only two visitors are allowed during a visit time, including children. Only one visit per inmate per week is allowed. Burnet has a strict local rule that a person who has been incarcerated in Burnet County Jail within the last six months cannot visit, with no exceptions. Released inmates must wait six months before being put on a visitation list.

The schedule image that follows is sourced from the sheriff's visitation rules page, the official source for the classification-based visit table and ID rules.

The USMS visitation line reinforces that Burnet County Jail has a federal holding role, not just a local county population.

Burnet County Jail Mail and Money

Burnet County Jail uses a scanned personal-mail process through EarthClass. Personal letters, greeting cards, pictures, and children's drawings must be sent to the Phoenix, Maryland processing address with the inmate's full name and S.O. number. Mail must also include a full return address with the sender's first and last name. EarthClass opens and scans personal mail, then the facility reviews it. If approved, the inmate views the item on a tablet or kiosk.

Legal mail, packages, government documents, prescription glasses, mailed money orders, and cashier's checks use the physical jail address rather than the EarthClass personal-mail address. Personal-mail originals are held for 60 days and then destroyed unless return is requested through GTL. Pictures larger than 4 by 6 inches cannot be scanned, and only 10 pictures per correspondence will be scanned.

Burnet County Jail Booking

Burnet County does not publish a full public booking manual, but local sources show how the custody record fits together. A person arrested in Burnet County is brought into a law-enforcement or jail setting, identified, searched, screened, booked, and held until release, transfer, or court order. The jail's official role is to receive and house committed offenders until release from confinement. A new booking may not appear in Odyssey immediately, and search problems can come from spelling, aliases, recent release, transfer, or the portal's human-verification step.

Local intake affects visitation and account setup. The sheriff's visitation page says onsite visits require the inmate to be cleared by medical staff and not be in precautionary isolation. The classification schedule uses Separation/PC, Minimum/Medium, Maximum/Medium, Females, and USMS. Mail and commissary rules require the inmate's full booking name and S.O. number, so that identifier is a key Burnet County Jail detail for families trying to send mail or funds.

S.O. number

The jail identifier Burnet uses for personal mail, legal mail, and mailed funds.

Classification

A custody grouping that affects housing and visit times.

Hold

Another court or agency basis that can keep a person in custody.

Detainer

A request or authority from another agency, often relevant to federal or immigration custody.

Burnet County Jail ICE and USMS

The sheriff's jail page states that Burnet County Jail is an over-72-hour ICE holding facility and a U.S. Marshals holding facility. A Burnet County commissioners court document in the public document system also references a U.S. Marshals detention-services agreement. This means the Burnet County Jail record path can overlap with federal pretrial custody or immigration detention, but the county jail roster is not the only system to check.

For immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System when the person may be in ICE custody or in Customs and Border Protection custody for more than 48 hours. ICE ODLS can search by A-Number or biographical information and does not search people under 18. For sentenced federal prisoners, use the BOP inmate locator. For federal pretrial status, the U.S. Marshals Western District of Texas is relevant because Marshals custody often relies on state and local detention agreements.