Bexar County Adult Detention Center Inmate Search

Bexar County Adult Detention Center Overview

The Bexar County Adult Detention Center is operated by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office and is the primary county jail facility in downtown San Antonio. It handles adult local custody for people arrested in Bexar County, including pretrial felony defendants, Class A and Class B misdemeanor defendants, people held on bench warrants, parole violators, convicted misdemeanants serving county time, and state-jail felons awaiting transfer.

The facility is a local jail, not a TDCJ state prison. The county search path is strongest for new Class B or higher arrests that have been processed by Central Magistrate within the last 24 hours. Older jail records, booking-related records, and records not displayed online require the BCSO phone, in-person, jail activity, or Central Records fallback channels.

Bexar County Adult Detention Center Capacity and Population

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards June 2026 population workbook lists Bexar County jail capacity at 5,108 beds. The same TCJS current population workbook reports a total jail population of 4,651 on June 1, 2026, about 91.05 percent of listed capacity. Those figures describe the county jail population reported to TCJS, not the population of nearby state, federal, or immigration systems.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Bexar County Adult Detention Center

Start with the Bexar County Central Magistrate Search for people arrested for a Class B or higher offense and processed by the Central Magistrate Office within the last 24 hours. This is a recent-arrest and magistrate-processing lookup, not a full permanent county jail roster. If the person does not appear, check Bexar County Jail Activity Reports, call the jail, or route a request through BCSO Central Records.

1. Open the Central Magistrate Search and note its 24-hour, Class B-or-higher scope.
2. Use "Filter Results By" with a last name, first-name fragment, SID, race code, or booking number.
3. Click a matching row to open the booking detail page and review booking number, SID, intake date, and charge cards.
4. If the person is no longer in the 24-hour table, use BCSO records, jail activity reports, phone contact, court portals, or TDCJ if the person has moved to state custody.

Bexar County Adult Detention Center Address and Contact

Use the facility address for jail contact, visit planning, and public records identification. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office directory publishes separate contacts for detention, Central Records, warrants, dispatch, and administrative functions, so unit-specific questions should be routed through the current BCSO directory when possible.

Visiting Someone at Bexar County Adult Detention Center

Bexar County publishes an official inmate visit scheduling page. The captured research confirms the official scheduling source, but it did not safely extract a full schedule, vendor, visit length, or fee table. Treat the county page and jail phone as controlling before relying on a visit date, dress rule, property rule, or cancellation policy.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Bexar County Adult Detention Center

Use the official Bexar County inmate mail page for current mailing rules, required inmate identifiers, prohibited items, publication rules, and return-address requirements. A complete commissary deposit fee table was not captured in the research, so do not assume a vendor fee or payment method without checking the current BCSO page or vendor page.

Booking and Intake at Bexar County Adult Detention Center

For Class B or higher arrests, the public search path is tied to Central Magistrate processing. A Central Magistrate detail record can show booking number, SID, intake date, date of birth, race, sex, and charge cards with case number, arrest time, magistration time, magistrate release time, offense description, offense type, bond amount, disposition, and comments. The inspected sample did not show a mugshot, housing location, arresting agency, or court date as top-level fields.

When the Central Magistrate table does not show a person, the reason may be timing, charge level, release, transfer, data lag, or the fact that the record aged out of the 24-hour public view. Use a full name, date of birth if known, booking number or SID if known, date of arrest, and requested record type when contacting BCSO Central Records.

About Bexar County Adult Detention Center

The Adult Detention Center is part of the Bexar County justice complex near downtown San Antonio courts and magistrate functions. TCJS reporting makes clear that the facility holds several legal-status categories at the same time, including thousands of local pretrial felony defendants, pretrial Class A and B misdemeanants, parole-violation categories, bench-warrant holds, state-jail felony categories, and small federal or contract categories when reported.