This is a private reference site, not a Carson County government office. We cannot confirm custody, release an inmate, post bond, schedule jail visits, or pull official booking records. Use the official contacts below for those tasks.
Where to Ask
For current Carson County custody questions, start with the Carson County Sheriff's Office and Carson County Jail. The sheriff's office is the local jail contact, and the official sheriff page points users to VINELink for offender custody status. Court records, land and public-record indexes, misdemeanor matters, felony matters, and prosecution questions may belong to different Carson County or 100th Judicial District offices.
Carson County Sheriff's Office and Carson County Jail
Sheriff Tam Terry
Mailing address: P.O. Box 972, Panhandle, TX 79068
Law enforcement and jail address: 201 Hwy 60 West, Panhandle, TX 79068
Phone: 806-537-3511
Fax: 806-537-3514
Use these routing points when the question is about a specific type of Carson County inmate, record, or case.
- For someone who may be in the county jail, use the jail inmate records page, VINELink, or the sheriff phone line at 806-537-3511.
- For booking photos, begin with jail roster mugshots and then ask the sheriff's office about a public-information request if no image is online.
- For charges filed after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest, the District Clerk, the County Clerk, the Justice of the Peace offices, or re:SearchTX as the case type requires.
- For facility details, use the Carson County Jail page and confirm travel or visitor questions with the jail before arriving.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, search the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search instead of calling the county jail first.
- For a federal prisoner or immigration detainee, use the BOP inmate locator or the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.
Other official offices may be the right contact when the question is not about current jail custody.
- Carson County main phone: 806-537-2200.
- District Clerk Gayla Cates: 501 Main Street, P.O. Box 487, Panhandle, TX 79068, phone 806-537-3873.
- County Clerk records: the Carson County Clerk page links to CountyGovernmentRecords and EagleWeb for official public records searching.
- Justice of the Peace Precinct 1, Judge Kathleen Barkley: P.O. Box 399, Groom, TX 79039, phone 806-248-7444.
- Justice of the Peace Precinct 2, Judge Terry Chavez: P.O. Box 453, Panhandle, TX 79068, phone 806-537-3722.
- 100th Judicial District Attorney Luke M. Inman: 800 West Avenue, Box 1, Wellington, TX 79095, phone 806-447-0055.
- Carson County Attorney Cho Sherwood: phone 806-537-3220.