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Brown County Detention Center Overview

The Brown County Sheriff's Office operates Brown County Detention Center, also called Brown County Jail in county source material. The sheriff page names Sheriff Vance Hill and places the sheriff, jail phone, inmate custody list, visitation schedule, open-records poster, and VINELink access on the same official county page. Brown County Detention Center holds the county jail population, including pretrial detainees, people serving short local sentences, bench-warrant arrests, parole holds, and other jail classifications that appear in Texas Commission on Jail Standards reporting.

The building sits in the same public-safety complex described by the City of Brownwood as housing the Brownwood Police Department, Brownwood Municipal Court, Brown County Jail, and Brown County Sheriff's Office. That shared location can matter for visitors because municipal-court users, police department users, and jail visitors may all be going to the same West Commerce complex, while court filing offices such as the District Clerk and County Clerk are at the county courthouse. Brown County Detention Center custody, however, is separate from a municipal citation search and separate from the Texas state-prison locator.

Brown County Jail Capacity

The most concrete Brown County Detention Center capacity source is the Texas Commission on Jail Standards current population reports. The June 2026 County Jail Population workbook reports Brown County with 196 rated beds and a June 1, 2026 jail population of 156. That places Brown County Detention Center at about 79.6 percent of rated capacity for that report date. TCJS also cautions that county jails submit the data and are responsible for the accuracy and quality of what they send.

TCJS incarceration-rate data adds a June 1, 2026 average daily population of 148 for Brown County, using a countywide population figure of 38,631 and an incarceration rate of 3.83. The same research set did not locate an official annual booking count or average length of stay. For that reason, Brown County Detention Center population claims should stay tied to the dated TCJS workbooks and not to a live roster count, which can change as bookings, releases, transfers, and court orders are entered.

Lookup Brown County Jail Inmates

The official Brown County Detention Center custody path starts from the sheriff page's Inmate Custody List link. The county-linked wrapper is at inmateroster.browncountytx.org, and the active roster application is at inmate.browncountytx.org. The roster supports Current and Released modes, name search, charge-description search, recent-day search, View all inmates, and View all charges. The current inmate grid showed full name, age, race, sex, admit date, and hidden or adaptive data for primary charge and arresting agency during the research inspection.

1. Open the Brown County inmate custody list from the sheriff page or use the roster application directly if the wrapper does not load.
2. Choose Current for a person believed to be in Brown County jail custody, or Released when checking a recent past custody event.
3. Search by name, search by charge description, search over a number of recent days, or use View all inmates to browse the grid.
4. Open the linked full name to review the inmate profile, including mugshot if displayed, admit date and time, charges, bond, court type, charging agency, and arresting agency.
5. If the person has been sentenced to state prison, search the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate locator instead of the county jail roster.

Brown County Detention Center records can also be checked by phone. The jail phone is the direct fallback when the online roster is down, delayed, or unclear. The sheriff page also links VINELink for custody-status and notification access, while statewide victim-notification context now includes Texas IVSS-Counties after the 2025 transition described by the Texas Attorney General.

Brown County Detention Center Contact

Call the jail before traveling for a visit, trying to confirm bond status, or relying on roster information for a time-sensitive decision. The public sources reviewed did not publish lobby hours, parking rules, entry details, or a current mail-address format. The records route below is for public-information requests, not for emergency custody checks.

Brown County Jail Visitation

The official Brown County Jail visitation PDF divides visits by sex and classification. It lists separate times for males, females, trustees, protective-custody males, and protective-custody females. The schedule does not publish visitor ID rules, dress code, child visitor rules, visit length, locker rules, prohibited items, attorney visitation, holiday changes, or lockdown procedures. Confirm those details with Brown County Detention Center before appearing for a visit.

Trustee and protective-custody schedule categories show that Brown County Detention Center visitation is tied to jail classification. A trustee is an inmate classification often linked to approved jail work or lower-risk assignments, but Brown County did not publish trustee duties or eligibility rules in the sources reviewed. Protective custody is a separate housing or management status used when safety concerns require different handling.

Brown County Commissary and Calls

The Tiger Commissary Brown County Detention Center page identifies the facility in Brownwood, Texas and offers online services for trust-fund deposits and commissary orders. The official county sources reviewed did not locate deposit fees, deposit limits, accepted in-person payment methods, refund rules, or a fixed commissary delivery calendar. Tiger's page may display changing packaging or delivery timing based on the order date, so those dates should be checked at the point of use.

The Tiger Commissary screen captured in the project manifest matches Brown County Detention Center money and commissary service access.

The image is useful for identifying the correct vendor page, but it should not be used as a fee schedule. Fees, limits, delivery timing, and payment options need to be checked in the live Tiger Commissary flow or with the jail.

Brown County's 2025 inmate phone request for proposal is an operations caveat, not a final service announcement. The RFP covered inmate telephones, video visitation, tablet services, and possible scanned mail. It listed 30 inmate telephones, 12 visitation phone pairs, 23 inmate video units, and no visitor units, and it stated that inmate phones should allow prepaid calls only except approved numbers, that inmates cannot receive incoming calls, and that calls are recorded. Because it was a procurement document, do not treat those details as a current vendor contract unless Brown County separately verifies the active system.

Brown County Jail Records Fallback

The online custody list is not a complete archive of every Brown County Detention Center record. A person may no longer be listed, a mugshot may not display, a jail incident record may not be online, or a profile may omit fields that exist in the jail file. The sheriff's open-records poster supplies the public-information request path under the Texas Public Information Act. Requests can be sent by email to sheriff.records@browncountytx.gov, by fax to 325-643-3238, by mail, or in person at the sheriff's office address.

Use enough detail for the sheriff's office to identify the record. A useful request includes the person's full name, approximate booking date, date of birth if known, record type requested, and whether the request seeks a booking sheet, mugshot, jail incident report, release information, or another specific record. The poster states that if information cannot be produced within 10 working days, the public-information officer will provide written notice of a reasonable date and time when it will be available. If estimated charges exceed $40, the governmental body must provide a written estimate before work starts and give the requestor a chance to narrow the request.

Brown County Custody Routes

Brown County Detention Center is the county jail path, not the state-prison system. A person arrested by Brown County deputies, Brownwood police, or another local agency may pass through local booking and appear on the Brown County jail roster if custody continues. After a felony conviction and state-prison sentence, the person moves to TDCJ custody and should be searched in the state locator. Federal inmates are searched through the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator after BOP intake, and immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS when the person is in ICE custody or otherwise eligible for ODLS search.