Search the Guadalupe County Inmate Population

The Guadalupe County Inmate Population

The Guadalupe County inmate population is centered on the Guadalupe County Adult Detention Center, the local jail operated by the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office. That facility is the county's booking and holding point for adults arrested by sheriff's deputies, city police officers, DPS troopers, constables, and other law enforcement agencies working in Seguin, Schertz, Cibolo, Marion, New Berlin, Selma, Santa Clara, Staples, and other communities in the county. The local count includes people waiting for first appearance, people held on county sentences, bench warrant detainees, parole violators, and people waiting for transfer to another custody system.

The Guadalupe County inmate population should not be read as one single database. Current local custody belongs in the county jail records channel. A person sentenced to Texas prison moves into the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system after transfer. Federal custody is handled through the Bureau of Prisons or the U.S. Marshals Service, and immigration detention is checked through ICE. That split matters because a person may be booked in Seguin, appear in court, and later stop appearing in the county jail channel even though the case or sentence continues elsewhere.

Guadalupe County Inmate Statistics

Official county and state sources give a strong local picture of the Guadalupe County inmate population. The jail page lists the Adult Detention Center as a 598-bed facility with 119 certified corrections officers. The same official source says the jail books an average of 8,000 people per year, transfers about 3,600 inmates to courts, and serves about 1,800 hot meals per day. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards population report adds the June 2026 monthly jail count and capacity use.

The June 2026 TCJS current population row listed 450 people in the Guadalupe County jail, or 75.25 percent of rated capacity. The June 2026 incarceration-rate file listed an average daily population of 452 and a countywide population base of 195,166, with the report's incarceration rate shown as 2.32 per 1,000 residents. Those figures describe the county jail population, not TDCJ prison units, BOP prisons, or ICE detention centers.

The TCJS population reports page is the official source for the statewide jail-population files used here.

TCJS reports are useful when the jail roster answers a person-level question but not the broader population question.

Guadalupe County Inmate Trends

The available TCJS rows show the Guadalupe County inmate population moving within the high 300s to high 400s during the extracted period. The jail rose above 400 in early 2023, reached 466 in June 2023, moved near the high 400s in late 2024 and early 2025, then stood at 450 in June 2026. That pattern does not show a county jail over rated capacity in the official rows reviewed. It does show steady churn, because the annual booking count is far higher than the daily population.

Recent official data does not show a court-ordered overcrowding emergency for Guadalupe County. The jail still has a high daily workload because booking, magistration, bond decisions, court transfers, and state-prison transfers all move people in and out of the count. A person who appears in the jail search today may be released, moved to court, or transferred before a later search.

Guadalupe County Custody Makeup

The June 2026 TCJS row gives useful status detail for the Guadalupe County inmate population. The largest local categories were pretrial felons and people sentenced or paper-ready for TDCJ divisions. The row listed local male and female pretrial misdemeanants, convicted misdemeanants, bench warrants, pretrial felons, parole violators, parole violators with new charges, state-jail felony categories, and other local categories. The federal inmate category in that row was zero male and zero female.

TCJS category names are jail-management labels. A pretrial person has not been convicted on that pending charge. A parole violator may have a state-supervision hold. A paper-ready inmate has reached a stage where state transfer may be pending, but local custody can continue until TDCJ receives the person.

Guadalupe County Jail Record Laws

Texas law shapes both person-level jail records and population data. The Texas Public Information Act gives the public a path to request existing government records, subject to confidentiality laws and exceptions. For jail operations, Government Code Chapter 511 creates the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and gives it authority to set minimum county-jail standards. The county's intake and first-appearance language also tracks Texas criminal procedure rules for magistration and bail.

Search Guadalupe County Inmates

The official online path for Guadalupe County inmate search is the county's Tyler PublicAccess portal, linked from the sheriff's Records Search page and from the Adult Detention page as Jailing Information. Automated research reached human verification on the portal, so exact live search fields were not confirmed in that environment. The county's own navigation still identifies the portal as the official Jail Records Search and Judicial Records Search channel. If the portal is unavailable, the jail records line and the sheriff's open-records process become the fallback.

1. Open the Guadalupe County Tyler PublicAccess portal from the sheriff or county records links.
2. Use the jail or jailing information search path for current local custody.
3. Check spelling, middle initials, and known booking or case details if the first search is too broad.
4. Call jail records at (830) 303-6342 ext. 2239 when the portal does not answer the custody question.
5. Submit a written GCSO open-records request for booking, incident, photo, or older records not shown online.
6. Use TDCJ, BOP, or ICE if the person has moved out of county jail custody.

The Adult Detention Division page is the county page that links the jail operation to the Jailing Information channel.

The jail page is also the source for local booking, visitation, mail, phone, and bond guidance.

Guadalupe County Roster Fields

The Tyler portal could not be inspected past human verification during research, so the public field table must stay narrow. The confirmed facts are the county link labels and the jail's intake process. Booking creates an arrest report, fingerprints, and a booking photograph. Public display of every field, including a photo, was not confirmed. When a public result does not show the needed detail, use the sheriff's written request process.

Booking

Jail intake that creates the local custody record, including search, report completion, fingerprints, and photo.

Magistration

The Texas first-appearance step where a magistrate explains rights and charges and sets bail.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that may affect release from the county jail.

SO number

A local sheriff or jail number required in Guadalupe County mail rules.

Past Guadalupe County Inmate Records

A released person may not remain visible in the current jail search. Guadalupe County did not publish a separate daily booking PDF, archived roster, or recent-bookings gallery in the official pages reviewed. For older booking records, reports, recordings, or booking-photo requests, the sheriff's open-records page says requests must be made in writing. Requests may be submitted in the sheriff lobby, by mail, or by email to so.openrecords@guadalupetx.gov.

The GCSO open-records page lists fees and timing. Report copies are $5.00 each, with $0.10 per page after 10 pages. Recordings are $75.00. Research and assembly may be billed at $25.00 per hour. The page says processing can take up to ten business days and that fees must be paid before release. Vehicle-collision reports are routed to TxDOT CRIS when the report was submitted there.

Guadalupe County Jail vs Prison

Most search mistakes come from using the wrong custody system. Guadalupe County jail records cover the local stage. TDCJ covers state-prison custody after transfer. BOP covers people in federal Bureau of Prisons custody, while federal pretrial detainees may be handled through the U.S. Marshals Service Western District of Texas before they appear in BOP data. ICE ODLS is separate from all of those systems.

The TDCJ locator accepts last name, first name, TDCJ number, SID number, gender, and race. TDCJ warns that location and release information can change quickly, and it updates offender details daily during weekdays and more often on visitation days.

Guadalupe County Detention Facility

Official facility research found one local detention facility operated for Guadalupe County inmate custody. No separate county jail annex, city jail roster, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention facility was identified inside Guadalupe County from the official locators reviewed. City police departments may make arrests, but local jail booking routes through the Adult Detention Center when a person is held in county custody.

• Guadalupe County Adult Detention Center - the county jail in Seguin for adults in local pretrial, sentenced, warrant, parole-violation, and transfer custody.

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