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Limestone County Jail Overview

The Limestone County Sheriff page places the sheriff and jail contact point at 912 North Tyus Street in Groesbeck and names Sheriff Murray Agnew as the county sheriff. The jail is operated by the Limestone County Sheriff's Office, so questions about current local custody start with the sheriff's jail line rather than a city police page, a court payment page, or a state prison locator. The facility is a county jail, not a state prison. It holds people in short term and pretrial custody, local sentenced jail inmates, bench-warrant inmates, parole violators, state-jail felons, people waiting on Texas Department of Criminal Justice transfer, contract inmates, and other lawful county-jail holds reported to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.

The jail's role is practical and local. A new arrest from Groesbeck, Mexia, or another Limestone County law-enforcement contact may pass through booking before court charges are filed. A person with a state prison sentence may later move out of Limestone County Jail and into TDCJ custody. A person in civil immigration custody is handled through the separate Limestone County Detention Center and ICE's locator. Those lines matter because a Limestone County Jail record, a TDCJ profile, and an ICE detainee record are not the same record.

The Sheriff's Office general information page is also a useful source because it separates office hours from jail operations. The administrative office is listed as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., while the jail division operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That means custody intake can occur at any time, but routine records, public-information, and administrative questions may still be better handled during business hours.

The Sheriff's general information page shows the county jail phone, jail fax, and visitation schedule.

Use that source for the posted jail visitation blocks and for the instruction to call before traveling.

Limestone County Jail Population

The best dated population source for Limestone County Jail is the Texas Commission on Jail Standards current population reports. TCJS reports are submitted by county jail facilities, and the June 1, 2026 county jail population workbook lists Limestone County with a rated capacity of 213 and a total jail population of 122. That places the jail at 57.3 percent of rated capacity for that report date. TCJS also reports 13 in-state contract inmates and 0 federal inmates in the Limestone County row for that same report.

The population mix is not just one group of recent arrests. TCJS category data for June 1, 2026 includes local male and female pretrial felons, Class A and Class B misdemeanor pretrial inmates, local convicted misdemeanants, bench-warrant inmates, parole violators, state-jail felons, people sentenced to county jail time, and people sentenced to TDCJ or state-jail time while still in county custody. That mix explains why an inmate lookup may need more than one channel. Someone may begin in local custody, move to state custody, or be tied to court records that are held by the clerk rather than the jail.

The TCJS population reports landing page is the state source for the current county jail figures.

Those figures support capacity and population statements, but they do not replace a direct custody call for a named person.

Limestone County Jail Lookup

No official Limestone County online jail roster, current-inmate search form, recent booking report, or mugshot gallery was located on the county or sheriff site. That finding should shape the search. A public search cannot start by typing a last name into a county roster because the sheriff does not publish a fielded web roster with first-name, last-name, booking-number, date-of-birth, housing, or release-date fields. The local lookup path starts with the jail phone line at 254-729-3278 and then branches to VINELink, a Texas Public Information Act request, court clerks, TDCJ, BOP, or ICE depending on custody type.

1. Call Limestone County Jail at 254-729-3278 with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, possible spelling variations, arrest date, arresting agency, and any charge or warrant information.
2. Use Texas VINELink for custody status and notification registration when the person is in a participating custody data set.
3. For booking records, photos, incident records, or historical jail documents that are not online, send a Texas Public Information Act request to the Sheriff's Office through the published address, fax, email, or phone contact.
4. For court charges after arrest, use the County Clerk for misdemeanor matters and the District Clerk for felony or district court matters, because court filings are separate from jail custody.
5. Search TDCJ Inmate Search if the person has been sentenced and transferred into state prison custody.
6. Use BOP Inmate Locator for sentenced federal prisoners and ICE ODLS for immigration detainees.

VINELink is the county-linked online custody notification source in the sheriff materials.

VINELink can help track custody status, but it is not a full Limestone County Jail roster profile or a substitute for records held by the sheriff or clerks.

Limestone County Jail Contact

Use the sheriff and jail contact block for current custody questions, visit confirmation, and records routing. The county sheriff page lists the sheriff's address, phone, fax, email, sheriff website, and VINELink link. The sheriff's general-information page gives the jail fax and confirms that the jail division operates around the clock. The address is also important because the ICE-linked Limestone County Detention Center uses a separate 910 Tyus Street address and a different detainee-information phone.

Limestone County Jail Visits

Limestone County publishes a basic public visitation schedule for the county jail. The schedule is split by male and female inmate population. Male visitation is Friday and Sunday. Female visitation is Thursday and Saturday. Both populations use the same two blocks: 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The sheriff also says to contact the agency before traveling to make sure the inmate remains in custody and is available for visitation.

Official county materials reviewed did not publish a full visitor handbook, dress code, item ban list, locker policy, identification wording, visit length, or video visitation vendor. A visitor should expect to bring valid identification, follow staff directions, and call the jail before leaving home. Because there is no public online roster, that phone call is the best way to avoid a wasted trip after release, court movement, transfer, lockdown, medical restriction, or temporary loss of visit eligibility.

Limestone County Jail Mail

Official sheriff and county pages reviewed did not publish a local inmate mail format, book-in number requirement, scan-and-destroy policy, approved book vendor rule, banned item list, commissary provider, online deposit URL, deposit fee table, inmate phone vendor, tablet program, or remote video provider. Those gaps should be stated plainly. Do not rely on a third-party vendor page unless the jail confirms it. Limestone County Jail callers should ask staff for the exact name format, booking number if required, current mailing address, legal mail instructions, approved money-deposit method, and fee rules before sending funds or mail.

For sentenced state prisoners, do not use the Limestone County Jail mail path after transfer. Use TDCJ's current facility, mail, and communication rules after the TDCJ locator confirms the person is in state custody. For ICE detainees, use the Limestone County Detention Center information channel rather than assuming the county jail mail rule applies.

Limestone County Jail Booking

Booking is the local intake process after arrest or warrant pickup. A person may be searched, identified, screened, classified, photographed, and assigned a custody status before a first court setting or bond decision. Research did not locate a Limestone County booking policy manual or a public sample inmate profile, so the page should not promise a visible booking number, mugshot, charge list, bond amount, housing unit, or release time on a county web profile. Those details may exist in internal jail records, in clerk records after filing, or in records released through a proper request.

The most common confusion is the difference between a booking label and a court charge. An arresting officer may book a person on a warrant or alleged offense, while the prosecutor later files a complaint, information, or indictment. The court record then controls the case path. For that reason, custody questions go to Limestone County Jail, but formal case questions go to the clerk that handles the case level. The Limestone County jail inmate records page covers that lookup split in more detail.

Pretrial inmate

A person held before final case disposition, often while bond, charges, or court dates are pending.

Bench warrant

A court order that can bring a person into custody, often for missed court or a court-directed hold.

TDCJ transfer

Movement from county jail custody to state prison or state jail custody after sentencing and paperwork.

Detainer

A request or hold notice from another agency, such as a parole, federal, or immigration authority.

About Limestone County Jail

Limestone County Jail sits in Groesbeck, the county seat, near the county courthouse and other records offices. That creates a phone-and-office heavy records path. The jail handles local custody, while the courthouse offices handle the court record that follows an arrest. The County Clerk handles county-level records, including misdemeanor criminal records and iDocket-linked court information. The District Clerk handles district court records, including felony case matters and district criminal payments. The District Attorney and County Attorney contact information is also tied to the courthouse address.

Research did not locate a current official jail program list, housing pod map, jail captain page, inmate handbook, grievance form, annual booking total, average length of stay, or detailed medical and mental health intake instructions. Texas county jails operate under the Texas Commission on Jail Standards framework, and TCJS reports provide the strongest sourced capacity and population data for Limestone County Jail. Historical local-government reporting from 2006 described a detention-facility expansion project, but current operating facts should rely on the sheriff, county, and TCJS sources instead of older background reporting.