Search the Angelina County Inmate Population

Angelina County Inmate Population Overview

The local jail count begins with the Angelina County Detention Center, the sheriff-run jail in Lufkin. The county jail holds people alleged to have committed offenses in Angelina County, from Class C misdemeanors through capital murder allegations. It also holds people on warrants, bond holds, state-jail felony matters, local sentences, and contract custody when those categories appear in the Texas Commission on Jail Standards reports. The county's current public roster is therefore a live custody list, not a full criminal-history database.

The wider Angelina County inmate population also includes two state prisons in Diboll. Diboll Unit and Rufus H. Duncan Geriatric Facility are operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, not by Sheriff Tom Selman. They hold sentenced state prisoners and use the TDCJ inmate locator. That split matters. A person booked after an arrest may first appear in the county jail roster, then later disappear from that roster after release, transfer, or sentencing to TDCJ.

The county page still says the jail was built and opened in 2003 to house a maximum of 279 inmates. The TCJS population reports for June 2026 list Angelina County with a reported capacity of 506 and a point-in-time jail population of 385. Those two figures should be read as separate official sources. The county page gives facility background, while the state workbook is the current reporting line used for jail-population review.

Angelina County Inmate Population Statistics

TCJS gives the most useful current statistical view because it publishes capacity, population, and incarceration-rate workbooks. In June 2026, the Angelina County row in the current population workbook showed 385 people in jail custody against a reported 506 capacity. The incarceration-rate workbook for the same month showed an average daily population of 258, countywide population of 88,094, and an incarceration rate of 2.93. The point-in-time jail count and ADP are different measures, so they should not be merged.

The official research did not locate an annual booking total or average length of stay from Angelina County sources. Those rows are better omitted than guessed, because jail booking volume and length of stay can vary sharply with bond practice, court timing, and transfers.

Angelina County Inmate Population Trends

The TCJS incarceration-rate workbook shows Angelina County's average daily population rising across the inspected monthly rows. January 2024 was near 208. By December 2024, the ADP had reached 223. The 2025 rows kept moving upward, and the June 2026 row stayed at 258. That does not prove a single cause. It does show that the jail's daily load was higher in late 2025 and mid-2026 than it was in early 2024.

A jail count can rise or fall when arrests change, bond is set or posted, court cases move, warrants are served, or sentenced inmates transfer to TDCJ. Angelina County did not publish an official narrative tying the 2024 to 2026 increase to one reform, lawsuit, or construction project in the inspected county pages.

Who Is in the Angelina County Jail

The June 2026 TCJS population row breaks the Angelina County inmate population into local and contract groups, plus pretrial, sentenced, parole, and state-jail-felony categories. Local male pretrial felons were the largest named local group in the inspected row, with 160 people. The same row reported 22 local female pretrial felons, 23 local male pretrial Class A/B misdemeanants, and 7 local female pretrial Class A/B misdemeanants. Contract inmates totaled 93.

• Pretrial felony custody: The TCJS row listed local male and female pretrial felony categories, plus contract pretrial felony categories.
• Misdemeanor custody: Class A/B misdemeanor rows were separated by local, contract, male, and female categories.
• Parole and blue warrants: The row included local parole violator and new-charge parole categories.
• State-jail felonies: Local and contract pretrial state-jail-felony categories were separately reported.
• Federal inmates: The June 2026 row showed zero male and zero female federal inmates.

These categories describe custody status, not guilt. A pretrial count means the person is being held while a charge is pending, usually before final disposition. A sentenced or TDCJ category means the custody reason has moved past the first arrest stage.

Angelina County Jail Capacity

Capacity is the most important local caveat. Angelina County's jail-information page says the detention center was built to house a maximum of 279 inmates. TCJS reported 506 as the June 2026 capacity. The research did not locate a county explanation for the difference, so the safest reading is that two official sources are using different published capacity lines. The current state reporting line is still useful because it pairs capacity with the same month's population total.

Using the TCJS June 2026 line, the jail was below reported capacity at 385 people, or 76.1%. Using only the older county text would make the same total look far above the descriptive maximum. That is why both figures are kept visible. It prevents a false statement that the county jail is either plainly under capacity or plainly overcrowded without naming the source being used.

The TCJS page is also the best place to check future changes. If a later workbook changes Angelina County's capacity, ADP, or population rate, the newer state row should be cited with its month.

Laws for Angelina County Inmate Records

Texas law is the frame for jail records and population access. The county's open-records page says requests are governed by Texas Government Code Chapter 552 and must ask for existing records, not answers to general questions. Jail roster details may change fast, but basic arrest and custody information is still treated differently from sealed, juvenile, medical, investigative, and criminal-history data.

Angelina County State Prison Population

Angelina County has two TDCJ prisons in Diboll, and their capacity should not be mixed into the county jail count. Diboll Unit is a male pre-release facility with capacity of 518. Rufus H. Duncan Geriatric Facility is a male geriatric facility with capacity of 530. Together, those TDCJ facilities add 1,048 prison beds physically located in Angelina County, but they are not part of the sheriff's current jail roster.

The TDCJ distinction is practical. A person sentenced to state prison will usually move out of the Angelina County Detention Center and into state custody. The TDCJ inmate search is the right lookup after that transfer. It allows search by name, TDCJ number, SID number, gender, and race, and TDCJ warns that the online data is updated on working days only and is at least 24 hours old.

Search the Angelina County Inmate Population

The official Angelina County jail roster is the first source for current county-jail custody. The roster is free and does not require login. It displays a current table rather than a conventional search form, so the most direct method is to scan the list or use the browser find command for a last name. Each row opens a profile page with more detail.

1. Open the county jail roster from the county homepage or direct roster link.
2. Read the roster disclaimer, because Angelina County says information changes quickly and may contain errors.
3. Use browser find for the last name if the list is long.
4. Compare name, gender, height, weight, eye color, hair color, and listed date before opening a row.
5. Open the profile for offense rows, bond amount, hold reason, arresting agency, aliases, marks, and victim-notification link.
6. If the person is not listed, call Book-In or check TDCJ, BOP, ICE, court records, or open-records channels.

New bookings, transfers, spelling issues, and release timing can all cause a missing result. The Book-In number is 936-639-8724, and the jail main line is 936-634-2724. Those lines are better for urgent custody confirmation than a stale screen capture.

Angelina County Jail Roster Fields

The roster does not expose the same search controls found on many vendor systems. During the research pass, no county-provided name input, date filter, dropdown, reset button, or advanced search tool was observed. That makes the visible table fields more important, because they help distinguish people with similar names before a user opens the profile.

The county homepage screenshot in the manifest shows the jail roster as a first-level county action. The official Angelina County homepage is therefore a useful fallback when a direct roster URL changes.

The homepage link helps separate the official county roster from third-party lookup pages that may not reflect current jail custody.

Past Angelina County Inmate Records

The current jail roster should not be treated as a complete archive. Research found a current custody list with clickable profiles, not a historical booking database. A released person may drop from the list, and a sentenced person may move to the TDCJ locator. For a past booking record, use Angelina County's open-records process and ask for an existing record, such as a booking sheet, jail record, booking photograph, or offense report for a named person and approximate date.

The county's open-records page says requests may be submitted by mail, in person, or through the county web portal. The request must describe the existing record clearly enough for staff to identify and locate it. For sheriff records, the web form recipient should usually be "Sheriff - Tom Selman." If the record is a court file, District Clerk, County Clerk, or District Attorney routing may be better.

Angelina County Inmate Record Contents

A full Angelina County inmate profile includes more than the public list table. The sample profile inspected during research showed front and right-view booking photos, identity fields, offense rows, bond amounts, hold reasons, arresting agency, aliases, and scars, marks, or tattoos. It did not show date of birth, booking number, housing unit, projected release date, court date, warrant number, or case-number links.

Angelina County Jail vs Prison Lookup

The county jail roster, TDCJ locator, BOP locator, and ICE locator each answer a different question. The county roster covers current sheriff custody. TDCJ covers sentenced state prisoners. BOP covers federal prison custody, especially after federal sentencing. ICE ODLS covers immigration detention and does not mean a county detainer has already become ICE custody.

State Federal and ICE Search

Federal and immigration custody require separate lookup paths. No BOP prison or ICE detention center was located in Angelina County through the official facility sources, but a local arrest can still involve a U.S. Marshals hold, federal prosecution, or immigration detainer. Use the BOP inmate locator for federal sentenced prisoners, U.S. Marshals Eastern District of Texas information for federal pretrial custody context, and the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for immigration custody.

For release or transfer notice, the profile's Texas IVSS link and VINELink are notification tools, not complete court-record searches. They are useful when custody may change and a user needs an alert rather than a one-time roster check.

Angelina County Detention Facilities

Each facility in Angelina County belongs to a different custody system. The county jail is the local arrest and pretrial hub. The two Diboll units are TDCJ prisons. Treating all three as one roster can send users to the wrong office.

• Angelina County Detention Center holds current county-jail inmates, recent arrests, local holds, and short local sentences.
• Diboll Unit is a TDCJ male pre-release facility in Diboll and uses the statewide TDCJ inmate locator.
• Rufus H. Duncan Geriatric Facility is a TDCJ male geriatric facility with transient custody and medical housing features.

Angelina County Inmate Population FAQ