Moore County Jail Overview
Moore County Jail / Moore County Sheriff's Office is the only detention facility found in official local, state, federal, or ICE sources as physically located in Moore County. The county sheriff page identifies the sheriff's office address at 700 S. Bliss Ave., Dumas, Texas 79029 and names Sheriff Morgan W. Hightower. The jail function is confirmed by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports and by the sheriff page's corrections-officer hiring link. No separate public detention-center page, jail administrator block, local roster, or jail operations manual was located.
This is a county jail, not a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison. The Moore County Jail population can include people held before bond or court, convicted misdemeanants, parole or blue-warrant cases, parole violators with new charges, state-jail-felony categories, and TDCJ-ready prisoners waiting on state transfer. Those categories come from the TCJS reporting structure and explain why a county jail can hold more than brand-new arrests. For a broader population view, the Moore County inmate population page covers the local data and lookup channels together.
The official Moore County Sheriff page is the main local source for the jail address and phone numbers. It shows the sheriff name, VINELink referral, address, office number, and dispatch number.
The same page points custody-status users to VINELink, which matters because Moore County did not publish a separate official jail roster in the reviewed material.
Moore County Jail Population
The best sourced jail-size figures come from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reports. TCJS reported Moore County Jail with a rated capacity of 62 beds and 42 total jail inmates on June 1, 2026. That placed the jail at 67.74 percent of rated capacity on that date. The selected TCJS rows reviewed from December 2022 through June 2026 all kept the same 62-bed capacity, with visible populations ranging from 36 to 49.
TCJS categories for June 1, 2026 showed the largest group as local pretrial felons, with other local misdemeanor, state-jail-felony, parole, TDCJ-ready, contract, and housed-elsewhere categories also present. The county jail was below rated capacity in every selected trend point reviewed, but those figures do not publish local race, age, booking totals, average length of stay, or daily average population. Those gaps should not be filled with estimates.
Locate Moore County Jail Inmates
No official Moore County jail roster, booking report, or inmate search form was found in the inspected county pages. The sheriff page instead links to VINELink for offender custody status. That makes the lookup method a fallback chain: try the official custody-status referral, call the sheriff, and use a public-information request for existing booking records when the online route does not answer the question. Detailed roster instructions and fields are covered on the Moore County jail inmate records page.
- Start with the Moore County Sheriff page and its VINELink referral for custody status.
- Call the sheriff's office at 806-935-4145 for routine custody, bond, or record questions when online status is unclear.
- Use dispatch at 806-935-2151 for time-sensitive law-enforcement routing, not broad record research.
- Ask whether the person is in Moore County custody, whether a bond has been set, which court is connected to the case, and how to request booking records.
- Use TDCJ, BOP, or ICE locators only when the person may have moved into state, federal, or immigration custody.
Moore County Jail Contact
The jail and sheriff share the public address listed by the county. Visitors should distinguish the sheriff and jail address from the courthouse address at 715 S. Dumas Ave. Custody, booking, jail records, bond questions, and jail visit questions start with the sheriff or jail. Court filings, clerks, and prosecutors are courthouse matters.
Moore County Jail / Moore County Sheriff's Office
700 S. Bliss Ave.
Dumas, TX 79029
Office 806-935-4145
Dispatch 806-935-2151
Moore County Jail Visitation Status
The official county pages reviewed for Moore County did not publish a jail visitation schedule, remote-video provider, visitor approval process, dress code, child-visitor rule, attorney-visitation rule, holiday rule, or lockdown notice process. That absence should be treated as a real local limit. Confirm every visit with the sheriff's office before traveling, because a local jail can change visit access for staffing, classification, court transport, medical, disciplinary, or security reasons.
| Visitation Topic | Moore County Published Status |
|---|---|
| In-person schedule | Not published in the official pages inspected. |
| Remote or video visitation | Not published. |
| Visitor approval list | Not published. |
| ID requirement | Not published locally; bring government photo ID and confirm first. |
| Dress code | Not published. |
| Children or minors | Not published. |
| Attorney visitation | Not published. |
| Holiday or lockdown rules | Not published. |
Moore County Jail Mail and Money
No official Moore County facility page was found with an inmate mail format, mail scanning policy, commissary vendor, deposit website, lobby kiosk notice, phone vendor, remote-video pricing, tablet program, money-order rule, or deposit fee schedule. Do not send funds, books, magazines, photos, or legal mail based on assumptions. Call the sheriff's office and ask for the current inmate name format, booking number requirement, allowed delivery methods, rejected items, vendor name if any, and refund rules before sending anything.
| Service | Published Local Detail | Practical Status |
|---|---|---|
| Mail address format | Not published. | Ask whether inmate name, booking number, or housing data is required. |
| Physical mail vs. scanned mail | Not published. | Confirm before mailing photos, cards, books, or legal mail. |
| Phone provider | Not located. | Ask the jail how calls are set up and billed. |
| Money deposit vendor | Not located. | Do not use an unsourced vendor page as if it were official. |
| Lobby kiosk | Not published. | Call before traveling with cash, card, or money order. |
| Commissary fees | Not published. | No local fee schedule was found. |
Moore County Jail Booking
Official Moore County pages do not describe the jail booking workflow, so only the general Texas and local custody framework can be stated. A Moore County arrest can start with the sheriff, Dumas Police, DPS, a warrant, or another agency. If the person is jailed locally, booking can include identity confirmation, warrant and hold checks, property inventory, search, fingerprints, a booking photo, medical or mental-health screening, classification, and housing placement. The county does not publish how fast a new booking appears in VINELink.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 15.17 controls the early magistrate step after arrest. It requires an arrested person to be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay and no later than 48 hours after arrest. Bond is tied to the early court process, and Article 17.15 gives Texas rules for setting bail. The jail record and the later court case record can differ because prosecutors may file, decline, amend, or add charges after booking.
Moore County Jail Records
For jail booking records, arrest reports, jail records, or booking photos that are not online, the Texas path is a written public-information request to the governmental body that maintains the record. Texas Government Code Chapter 552 covers the Texas Public Information Act. The request should ask for existing records and identify the person, approximate arrest or booking date, record type, arresting agency if known, requester's contact details, and delivery preference.
If the arresting agency was Dumas Police and the desired record is a police report rather than a jail booking record, the Dumas Police public-information page gives city request routes and directs police records to Police Department Records, Attention Lenor Rogers. Moore County court records after arrest may require the county Public Inquiry portal, District Clerk, County Clerk, or justice court, depending on case level.
Moore County Jail Standards
Moore County Jail operates under the statewide Texas county-jail framework. Texas Government Code Chapter 511 creates and empowers the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. TCJS rules and minimum standards cover records and procedures, classification and separation, health services, supervision, hygiene, sanitation, discipline and grievances, recreation, education, work assignments, services and activities, compliance, and fees. These standards provide statewide context but do not publish a Moore County visit schedule, mail rule, or vendor contract.
The TCJS non-compliant jails page explains that counties are listed after verified noncompliance and removed when compliance is reached. That official page should be used for current compliance status rather than stale third-party summaries. No official Moore County page reviewed in the research published a recent jail construction project, closure notice, consent decree, DOJ investigation, or local jail-program directory.
Note: Confirm custody, visitation, mail, and money instructions with Moore County Sheriff's Office before traveling or sending funds.