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Fannin County Jail Overview

The Fannin County Jail / Fannin County Detention Center is the primary county jail listed in the Fannin facility map. The official sheriff page places the jail on Silo Road in Bonham and lists it separately from the Sheriff's Office administrative address. That split matters because a person may need the jail for custody status, bond, intake, inmate property, visitation, or release questions, while broader public-information requests may use county records channels. The sheriff page identifies Sheriff Cody Shook as the county sheriff and gives the jail's direct phone and fax.

This is a county jail, not a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison. It may hold people booked after local arrests, people held on county warrants or bench warrants, pretrial felony and Class A or Class B misdemeanor defendants, county-sentenced inmates, and people held for other agencies if those categories are reported. Someone booked here may later bond out, be released on court order, remain for court, transfer to another county, or move to TDCJ after conviction and sentence. For a wider county custody overview, the Fannin County jail inmate records page explains the fallback search path.

The official Fannin County sheriff page is the source for the local jail contact block shown below.

The screenshot reflects why custody checks for this jail should start with the jail phone and VINE notice rather than an assumed public roster link.

Fannin County Jail Population

The best sourced jail population figures come from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. In the June 1, 2026 TCJS current population workbook, the Fannin row is labeled Fannin (P), with the research noting that the TCJS data dictionary defines that marker as a private facility. The same workbook lists a rated capacity of 657 beds and a total jail population of 95. The TCJS incarceration-rate workbook lists an average daily population of 94 for Fannin County on the same June 1, 2026 date.

Those figures should be read as official reported jail population data for that report date, not a promise about the number of people in custody today. TCJS data is submitted by counties or facilities, and the source warns that the submitting agency is responsible for the data quality. Earlier workbooks had a different capacity figure, so current custody or housing status still needs confirmation with the jail.

Look Up Fannin County Jail Inmates

No official Fannin County online jail roster, current-inmate search form, or mugshot gallery was located on the county site during the research pass. The official sheriff page instead publishes jail contact information and states that Fannin County participates in the Statewide Automated Victim Notification Service, also known as VINE. That makes the local lookup process a channel sweep: jail phone for current custody, Texas VINELink for custody notification where supported, the Tyler court portal for filed court cases, and a public-information request for booking records that are not posted online.

Use TDCJ only after a person is in state custody. Buster Cole Unit and Choice Moore Unit are nearby Bonham state prisons, but they are not the Fannin County jail roster and do not handle new county booking for local arrests. A person with a pending Fannin case may be in the county jail even if the court case has not appeared yet, and a person who has been sentenced may later move to TDCJ.

1. Call Fannin County Jail with the person's full name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest date.
2. Search or register through Texas VINELink if the person has been booked and custody notifications are needed.
3. Use the Fannin County Tyler court portal only for filed charges, case numbers, settings, and dispositions.
4. Use the TDCJ inmate search after sentence or transfer into state prison custody.
5. File a written public-information request for booking sheets, jail logs, or booking photos that are not online.

Fannin County Jail Contact

Use the jail contact for immediate custody, visit, bond, inmate-property, release, and facility rule questions. Use the Sheriff's Office number for administrative sheriff business, and use the county public-information route for records that staff cannot release by phone. The county's public-information page says written requests must use the Public Information Request Form and may be submitted by PDF email, mail, or in person through the listed county route.

Fannin County Jail Visits

The accessible county sheriff materials did not publish a jail visitation schedule, video-visit vendor, visitor approval form, dress code, child-visitor rule, or lobby check-in procedure. That absence should not be filled with vendor names or hours from another county. Call the jail before traveling, especially if the visit involves a recent booking, a person on hold for another agency, a holiday, or a person who may have been released or transferred.

General jail visits often require a government photo ID, screening at entry, and compliance with contraband rules, but those are broad jail practices and not a substitute for Fannin County's current local instructions. The same caution applies to parking and accessible entry, since the county source did not publish visitor parking rates, public transit routes, or ADA-entry details for the jail.

Fannin County Jail Mail and Money

Official county sources did not publish the jail's mail-address format, inmate ID requirements, property rules, commissary vendor, deposit method, fee table, phone vendor, or tablet program. Do not send money, books, packages, or sensitive documents based on a third-party listing. Call the jail and ask for the current inmate name format, booking or jail ID requirement, approved mail items, rejected items, and any current deposit instructions.

If the goal is a record rather than inmate support, use the public-information request process instead of mailing documents to an inmate. A records request can ask for a booking sheet, booking photograph, jail log entry, arrest report, bond information, or population record by name, date, and record type. Texas Public Information Act exceptions can still apply, so redactions or withholding may occur for juvenile, victim, medical, active-investigation, or protected identifying information.

Fannin County Jail Booking

A Fannin County arrest may be made by the sheriff, local police, state police, or another agency. After transport to jail on county or local charges, intake commonly includes identity checks, warrant checks, property inventory, search, fingerprints, booking photograph, screening, and initial classification. The county did not publish a step-by-step booking manual, so exact timing and form fields should be confirmed with jail staff.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure article 15.17 controls the magistrate-warning stage after arrest. The Fannin County Criminal District Attorney's process page also explains that prosecutors, not police, decide whether and what charges are filed. That means a booking charge can differ from the court charge later shown in the Tyler portal. Bond status can also change after magistrate or judge action.

Booking

Jail intake after arrest, including administrative processing and custody entry.

Filed charge

The charge accepted or filed by the prosecutor in court.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that may delay release.

Classification

A custody and housing assessment made after intake.

About Fannin County Jail

Fannin County's jail sits in Bonham near the Sheriff's Office and near the separate TDCJ Cole and Choice Moore prison complex area. That local geography can confuse searchers because all three custody sites are in or near Bonham, but they serve different systems. The county jail handles local booking and county custody. Cole and Choice Moore are TDCJ units for state custody and use TDCJ's locator, visitation, mail, and commissary rules.

No official Fannin sheriff or major local police mobile app with an inmate roster or warrant lookup was located in official app-store or agency-site searches during research. The county's own public materials emphasize the jail phone, VINE/SAVNS, the court portal for filed cases, and written public-information requests for records not posted online.