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Clay County Jail Overview

Clay County Jail is operated by the Clay County Sheriff's Office. Official county material lists Sheriff Sidney "Kirk" Horton, the sheriff's office, and the jail contact point at 215 W. Gilbert Street in Henrietta. The jail is the only detention facility resolved for Clay County in the facility map. No county annex jail, work-release building, regional detention center, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center was located in official sources inside the county.

The facility is a county jail and local detention site. It may hold pretrial misdemeanor defendants, felony defendants awaiting court action, people booked on warrants or motions to revoke, county-sentenced inmates where applicable, and people waiting for transfer after a case reaches the right stage. The broader Clay County inmate population summary explains how those jail counts fit with TCJS reports. That scope matters because the Clay County Jail roster is not the same as the Texas state prison locator. Once a sentenced person leaves the county jail system for state prison, the search moves to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, not the Clay County sheriff roster.

Clay County Jail Population

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports are the official source for the Clay County Jail capacity and population figures used here. The current population spreadsheet inspected in the research listed a June 1, 2026 Clay County row with 38 rated beds, 19 total inmates, and 50 percent of rated capacity. The matching incarceration-rate spreadsheet listed a countywide population of 10,730, an average daily population of 23, and an incarceration rate of 2.14.

Those figures show a small jail that was not over rated capacity in the latest inspected report. The trend still deserves context. Clay County's total jail population reached 32 people on March 3, 2026, or 84.21 percent of capacity, before falling to 19 by June 1, 2026. The official research did not identify a consent decree, population cap lawsuit, or county explanation for that rise and decline, so the numbers should not be tied to any arrest trend or court policy without a source.

Clay County Jail Lookup

The official current jail search is the Kologik Public Jail Roster for agency Clay COSO. The Clay County sheriff page links to that roster, and the research inspection found that it was free to use with no login. Kologik returned current inmate records on June 29, 2026. The public history mode was not available in the inspected settings, so a released person may disappear from the public roster even when a jail face sheet or booking record still exists through the Records Division.

The official Clay County sheriff page shows the jail roster access point for Clay County Jail.

Use that sheriff page when checking that the Clay County Jail roster link still routes through the county's own source before relying on a third-party directory.

1. Open the Clay County sheriff page and choose the Jail Roster button, or open the Kologik Public Jail Roster directly.
2. Use the Name Filter if part of the person's first, middle, or last name is known.
3. Use the alphabet controls when the last-name first letter is known and the current roster is long.
4. Check the inmate card for booking time, arresting agency, charges, bond rows, days in jail, and public photo area.
5. If no record appears, check release, transfer to TDCJ, federal custody, ICE detention, or a sheriff records request.

Note: The recent-bookings control returned no records during research, so the all-current roster and name filter are the better starting points.

Clay County Jail Records

A Clay County Jail roster card is a booking and custody record, not the full criminal case file. Sample Kologik records included a public booking or control number, name fields, year of birth, age, sex, race, height, weight, eye and hair descriptions, booking date and time, arrival date and time, arresting agency, days in jail, charge rows, charge class or type, charge code, warrant number, and bond amount. The JSON field for cell number existed but was blank in inspected Clay County records, so housing unit names should not be invented.

Charges shown on the jail roster may reflect arrest, warrant, hold, or booking information. Formal court filings can differ after a prosecutor reviews the case. For felony district-court records, the Clay County District Clerk uses the courthouse address and links to the statewide court-record search portal, while the sheriff's open-records form states that the sheriff does not have court records. For current custody and booking facts, stay with the jail roster, the sheriff Records Division, or the fuller Clay County jail inmate records walkthrough.

Clay County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the public contact point published in the official county material. Call the main number before traveling for a visit, asking about a current inmate, sending funds, or mailing anything to the facility. For a written record request, use the Records Division email and include enough identifying details to find the existing record. The sheriff's form asks for a copy of a government-issued picture ID and includes "Jail face sheet" as a selectable record type.

The open-records page cites Texas Government Code Section 552.301(c) and says the Records Division is designated to receive email public-information requests. It also says fax requests are not accepted due to security concerns. The page asks requesters to allow up to 10 business days. An older notice on the same page mentioned possible 14-business-day delays, so the 10-business-day route should still be treated as a target rather than a guarantee.

Clay County Jail Visits

Official Clay County sources reviewed did not publish a jail visitation schedule, video visitation vendor, visitor ID rule, dress code, child visitor rule, attorney visit process, holiday schedule, or lockdown notice. That absence is important. Do not rely on unofficial jail-directory schedules for Clay County Jail visits. The practical path is to call the jail before arrival and ask whether visits are in person, by video, suspended, limited by housing status, or limited to people already approved by the inmate.

Clay County Jail Mail

The official sheriff pages reviewed did not publish a mail addressing format, commissary vendor, online deposit portal, kiosk instructions, phone vendor, tablet program, or deposit fee table for Clay County Jail. The safer rule is to call the facility before sending money, mail, books, photos, or legal papers. Ask whether the mailing address must include the inmate's full name, CCN or booking number, housing information, and return address. Also ask whether mail is scanned, rejected for certain items, or routed through a vendor.

Court payments should not be confused with jail commissary money. The Clay County District Clerk material mentions Certified Payments for certain court costs and a convenience fee, but that is not the same as adding money to an inmate account at Clay County Jail. If the person has moved to TDCJ after sentencing, Clay County Jail mail and money instructions no longer control. TDCJ uses its own search, mail, phone, visitation, and money systems.

Clay County Jail Booking

Clay County does not publish a detailed booking manual in the official sheriff material reviewed, so the local intake description comes from roster fields, the sheriff open-records form, and Texas criminal procedure. The usual path starts with arrest or warrant service by Clay COSO, TX DPS, or another agency. The person is transported to Clay County Jail, booked into the Kologik current roster, reviewed for bond or magistrate handling, and then released, held for court, or transferred when the case status requires it.

Kologik records show the pieces of intake that become visible to the public: name fields, year of birth, age, sex, race, physical description, booking time, arrival time, arresting agency, days in jail, charge rows, warrant number, and bond information. A public booking photo may appear when available. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 controls the magistrate-warning stage after arrest, and Chapter 17 governs bail and bond. A jail charge is not always the final filed charge in court.

Booking

The jail's administrative intake record after arrest.

Detainer

A request from another agency to hold or notify before release.

PR bond

A personal bond that releases a person on promise and conditions.

Classification

The jail's custody or security assignment process.

Clay County Jail Oversight

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards is the state oversight agency for county jails. A June 10, 2025 TCJS notice of non-compliance identified a Clay County Jail issue tied to minimum standard 273.2(12). The notice said a complaint review found that prescription medication was not reviewed as soon as possible after a person was taken into custody. The corrective measure was required upon receipt of notice.

That notice should be read as a specific medical-intake and standards issue, not as proof of a population lawsuit or closure. The research did not locate an official DOJ consent decree, federal civil-rights investigation, new jail bond, closure notice, or current population release order for Clay County Jail. It also did not find an official list of GED, vocational, substance-abuse, religious, work-release, reentry, grievance, or sick-call programs. Program and condition questions should be directed to the jail unless TCJS or the county publishes a newer official source.

For custody alerts, use VINELink as a notification supplement where available. For sentenced state prisoners, use the TDCJ inmate search. Federal sentenced custody belongs in the BOP inmate locator, and immigration detention belongs in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. No official Clay County sheriff or major-city police mobile app with an app-store listing was located in the research.

Note: Clay County Jail is the only mapped local facility, but custody can shift to state, federal, or immigration systems after transfer.