Swisher County Jail Custody
The official Swisher County Sheriff page places the sheriff's office and jail at 136 East Broadway in Tulia and names the Swisher County Sheriff's Office as the local custody point. Sheriff Kyle Schmalzried is listed by the county, along with the jail phone, fax, general sheriff email, and Administrative Assistant Alisha Del Toro. That source does not publish a separate jail division page, a live roster table, a booking photo feed, or a standing jail visitation page. Swisher County Jail should therefore be treated as a sheriff-operated county jail with direct confirmation as part of the lookup process.
The jail holds local arrests, pretrial defendants, county-level sentence custody, and agency holds that fall within local jail authority. A person sentenced to Texas prison is no longer searched as a Swisher County Jail inmate after transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. A federal defendant or sentenced federal inmate follows federal channels, and immigration custody uses the ICE detainee locator. That split is important in Swisher County because the Thomas R. Mechler Unit is also in Tulia, but it is a state prison, not the county jail.
The sheriff source below shows the Swisher County Jail contact path and the county's custody-status reference. It should be read with the later Texas statewide transition to IVSS-Counties in mind.
The screenshot reinforces that Swisher County Jail lookup users need the sheriff contact details because no local roster table was found on the county page.
Swisher County Jail Population
Swisher County inmate population figures for the jail come from Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports. The June 1, 2026 Swisher row showed 27 listed total jail capacity, 10 total jail population, 37.04 percent of capacity, and 12 average daily population. Those figures describe the county jail population report, not the population at the nearby TDCJ state prison. TCJS reports are useful because they give a consistent state source for the small county jail even when Swisher County does not publish a full local roster.
| Measure | Swisher County Jail Figure | Source Context |
|---|---|---|
| Listed capacity | 27 | TCJS June 1, 2026 county jail population row |
| Total population | 10 | TCJS June 1, 2026 county jail population row |
| Percent of capacity | 37.04% | TCJS population report calculation |
| Average daily population | 12 | TCJS incarceration-rate spreadsheet row |
Capacity needs local context. A 2024 TCJS notice described a period when 19 installed bunks were reduced to 16 usable bunks after plumbing issues affected cells #7 and #3. The same notice described temporary beds in Multiple Occupancy Cell #15 and a two-way communication problem tied to alert signals. A later county-hosted TCJS reinspection and compliance letter said the deficiencies were corrected in July 2024. That timeline means old inspection findings should not be treated as a current non-compliance claim, but they do explain why usable bunks can matter even when a spreadsheet count appears below total capacity.
Swisher County Jail Lookup
No official Swisher County-hosted jail roster was located. The county sheriff page historically pointed users to VINELink for custody status, while Texas Attorney General victim-notification guidance says Texas moved to Texas IVSS-Counties effective September 1, 2025. For a current county jail custody question, use Texas IVSS-Counties as the notification and search portal, then call the sheriff's office for Swisher County Jail confirmation when the result is unclear, recent, or missing.
- Search Texas IVSS-Counties by full name or partial name. If available, use a Jail ID, SID, DOC ID, or permanent booking number to reduce false matches.
- Check whether the result is current custody or supervision. IVSS itself warns that it is not an official law-enforcement record.
- Call Swisher County Sheriff's Office at 806-995-3326 for jail-specific confirmation, especially after a recent arrest.
- Use TDCJ Inmate Information Search when the person has been sentenced to state prison.
- Use the BOP Inmate Locator for sentenced federal custody and ICE ODLS for immigration detainee search.
| Search Need | Use This Channel | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| Current county jail custody | Texas IVSS-Counties plus sheriff confirmation | Swisher County did not publish a local roster table. |
| Sentenced Texas prison custody | TDCJ locator | State prisoners are not controlled by the county jail roster. |
| Federal sentenced custody | BOP locator | No BOP facility was identified inside Swisher County. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | Immigration detainees follow federal locator rules. |
| Filed criminal case records | Swisher County & District Clerk | Court files are separate from jail custody status. |
A Swisher County Jail booking can precede a filed court case. Jail staff may be able to confirm current custody and visible hold or bond status, but the clerk's criminal case index controls filed court events after charges are opened. For broader roster guidance, Swisher County Jail Inmate Records explains the county lookup chain and state-prison fallback in more depth.
Swisher County Jail Contact
The main Swisher County Jail contact point is the sheriff's office. Use that office for live jail confirmation, public-information routing for sheriff-held booking records, and questions about local visitation, mail, or money that were not published in official county pages. Court records after booking should be routed to the Swisher County & District Clerk instead of the jail, because a booking record and a filed judicial record are not the same record.
Swisher County Jail
136 East Broadway
Tulia, TX 79088
806-995-3326
Fax: 806-995-3367
Email: so@swisher-tx.org
Administrative Assistant: Alisha Del Toro, a.deltoro@swisher-tx.org
For records that have moved from custody status into filed court activity, the county and district clerk is at the courthouse at 119 South Maxwell Avenue in Tulia. The clerk's record-request page states that records may be reviewed in office during normal business hours at no charge and that requests are reviewed within 10 business days with availability and cost. Use the sheriff for jail/booking records and the clerk for filed criminal case records.
Swisher County Jail Visits
No official Swisher County page with a standing jail visitation schedule, visitor dress code, child-visitor rule, attorney visitation rule, video visitation vendor, or holiday schedule was located. A sheriff social post indicated visits can shift around holidays, but that is not a reliable standing schedule. The safest Swisher County Jail visitation instruction is to call the sheriff before travel and ask for the current day, time, visitor approval, ID, dress, and entry procedure.
| Visitation Item | Status Located | Practical Use |
|---|---|---|
| Standing in-person days | Not found on official county pages | Confirm with the sheriff before travel. |
| Video visitation vendor | No official local page located | Do not assume a video option exists. |
| Visitor ID and dress code | Not published in official research | Ask jail staff for current rules. |
| Holiday changes | Social post only, not standing rule | Call before any holiday visit. |
Note: Do not rely on an old social-media visitation notice as the normal Swisher County Jail schedule.
Swisher County Jail Mail
Official county web sources did not publish a jail mail format, publication policy, legal-mail rule, scanned-mail procedure, commissary limit, kiosk location, deposit fee table, or inmate trust-fund instruction for Swisher County Jail. A sheriff social post identified City Tele Coin for commissary deposits, and City Tele Coin has its own vendor site. Because no current official county page was located tying every local rule to that vendor, deposits should be confirmed with the jail before funds are sent.
| Service | What Was Found | Action Before Use |
|---|---|---|
| Inmate mail | No official Swisher mail format located | Ask the jail for the exact name and booking format. |
| Phone or video | No official county rules page located | Confirm provider and account rules with the sheriff. |
| Commissary deposits | City Tele Coin identified only through a sheriff social post | Confirm active vendor status and limits before payment. |
| Vendor support | City Tele Coin support lists public support contact details | Use vendor support only after the jail confirms the facility setup. |
Money and mail errors are hard to reverse. For Swisher County Jail, the absence of an official local rule page means the inmate's exact custody status, name spelling, and deposit eligibility should be checked first. If a person has already transferred to TDCJ, Swisher County Jail mail and money instructions no longer apply.
Swisher County Jail Booking
Swisher County does not publish a detailed local booking workflow, so the booking description should stay general. A typical county jail path begins with arrest by a sheriff's deputy, Tulia police officer, DPS trooper, or another authorized officer. The person is transported for intake, identity checks, search, property inventory, fingerprints, booking photo, alleged charge entry, medical and safety screening, bond or magistrate processing, classification, and housing if the person remains in custody. TCJS admission standards govern the jail standards layer, but the county did not publish a public local intake manual.
- Booking
- The administrative intake process after arrest, including identity, property, charge, and custody entries.
- Classification
- The jail assessment used for housing and safety decisions.
- Detainer
- A notice or hold from another agency, such as immigration, parole, federal court, or another county.
- PR bond
- A personal-recognizance release based on a promise to appear, subject to court rules.
Bond status may be visible to jail staff, but court orders control the legal release path. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 17 governs bail, and a hold from another agency can keep a person in custody even after a local bond issue is resolved. For a filed case, the clerk's criminal case information is the better place to review court dates and formal charge status.
Swisher County Jail Standards
TCJS is the state jail-standards authority for county jails. The June 2024 Swisher County Jail non-compliance notice cited temporary-bed and unusable-bunk issues, including cells #7 and #3, plus a two-way communication issue related to alert signals at the officers' station. A later county-hosted reinspection and July 2024 letter stated that all deficiencies had been corrected and that Swisher County Jail was in compliance with minimum jail standards. Both facts belong together because the notice explains a dated condition while the reinspection gives the correction status.
The TCJS population reports page is also the source for Swisher County Jail population spreadsheets. That state source is separate from any public roster or victim-notification tool. TCJS numbers can show how many people were held in the county jail for a reporting month, but they do not identify each inmate by name.