Fort Bend County Detention Facility Inmate Lookup

Fort Bend County Detention Facility Overview

Fort Bend County Detention Facility is operated by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office at 1410 Richmond Parkway in Richmond. Sheriff Eric Fagan's office runs the county jail roster, detention command, booking and release functions, records request process, bonding office, mail rules, commissary information, and visitation information for this facility. This is a county jail, not a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison. It serves people detained on Fort Bend County charges, people serving county-jail sentences, inmates waiting for transfer to TDCJ, other-agency holds, and U.S. Marshals Service contract inmates when housed locally under county agreement.

The research file describes the jail as a Detention Bureau or Detention Command with several operating parts. The Inmate Processing Unit handles intake, property, imaging, transport, classification, and bonding. The Housing Unit manages care, custody, control, feeding, recreation, medication distribution, sanitation, religious services, education, work release, treatment programs, and supervision of inmates with mental illness. The Support Division handles kitchen operations, specialized medical meals, grievances, disciplinary matters, PREA compliance, civil-rights-related complaint routing, and the federal contract-housing liaison function.

The official detention contact page below shows the jail address and office phone. That county source is useful before an in-person records visit, bond question, or scheduled visit because jail lobby procedures can change.

Fort Bend County publishes the detention contact page with the Richmond Parkway address and office number.

Use that official contact page with the jail roster and records page when a custody question cannot be answered from the public search result alone.

Fort Bend County Detention Facility Capacity and Population

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards current population report listed Fort Bend County's jail capacity as 1,770 beds on the June 1, 2026 report. The same TCJS report listed 828 total jail inmates for Fort Bend County on that date. The research notes that the TCJS report is a first-day-of-month population snapshot covering local, contract, and housed-elsewhere categories. It is not an annual booking count and should not be treated as an average length-of-stay figure.

Fort Bend's jail population includes categories that can confuse inmate searches: pretrial misdemeanor and felony defendants, convicted misdemeanor inmates, bench-warrant inmates, parole violators, state-jail-felony categories, TDCJ-transfer-ready prisoners, federal inmates housed by contract, and other agency holds. A person may be physically in the Fort Bend jail even when a court, state prison system, or federal agency controls the next step.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Fort Bend County Detention Facility

The correct online lookup for this county jail is the Fort Bend Jail Public Information Inquiry. The inquiry is free and uses a simple first-name and last-name search. It is built for current county jail custody, not for sentenced TDCJ prisoners at Beauford H. Jester III Unit, Wayne Scott Unit, Carol S. Vance Unit, or another Texas prison.

1. Open the Fort Bend Jail Public Information Inquiry at jailinq.fortbendcountytx.gov.
2. Enter the last name, first name, or both. The county search accepts full or partial names.
3. Review the results table for name, Jail ID, race, and sex. If there are several matches, compare the visible identifiers carefully.
4. Click the linked inmate name to open the detail page and review charge, warrant, authority, bail, fines, and disposition fields.
5. If no record appears, try a partial spelling, then call the detention office or use the FBCSO Records Division written request process.

The public detail record may include a mugshot image area, but the inspected sample record showed an "Image Unavailable" placeholder. Do not assume every active inmate has a visible booking photo. Older booking sheets, photos not shown online, incident reports, and release information should be requested through the Sheriff's Records Division at the FBCSO public information request page. Written requests may be sent by email, mail, in person, fax, or the FBCSO mobile app channel documented by the county.

Fort Bend County Detention Facility Address and Contact

Call the jail for custody and facility routing questions, the Bonding Office for release-document questions, and the Records Division for written public-information requests. Records lobby hours in the research file are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., excluding county holidays.

The county research also lists the non-emergency sheriff number as 281-341-4665. For records requests, include the name, date range, Jail ID if known, arrest or booking date if known, and the exact record requested. FBCSO asks requesters to allow 10 business days for a response, with additional time possible for large or complex requests.

Visiting Someone at Fort Bend County Detention Facility

Fort Bend County jail visitation is video-based through Securus and videovisitanywhere.com. On-site video visits require an account and must be scheduled at least 24 hours ahead. From-home remote visitation was reinstated January 16, 2025, until further notice. The county visitation phone number listed in the research is 281-341-4744. Visitors should confirm custody before scheduling because a court release, TDCJ transfer, or other-agency movement can make a scheduled visit unusable.

Adults need a state driver's license or photo ID. Juvenile visitors who are 16 or older also need valid state ID, and children 16 or younger must be accompanied by an adult. The county page says visits are 25 minutes despite using the odd wording "thirty (25)." The video room prohibits food, drinks, gum, weapons, tank tops, tube tops, strapless attire, short skirts, and short shorts. Visits other than validated professional visits are monitored and recorded.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Fort Bend County Detention Facility

Fort Bend County jail mail, phone, and money rules are local jail rules. They do not apply to TDCJ prisoners at the Jester complex. Personal non-legal mail switched to the Securus Digital Mail Center on January 2, 2024. Legal mail and qualifying official mail still use the jail address. The inmate trust fund can be used for commissary, calls, and eMessaging.

Money orders and funds may be accepted at the bonding window in the main lobby or mailed to 1410 Richmond Parkway, Richmond, TX 77469. The research lists JPay customer service as 800-574-JPAY (5729). Confirm the person is still in Fort Bend County custody before sending money because a transfer to TDCJ changes the deposit process.

Booking and Intake at Fort Bend County Detention Facility

The Inmate Processing Unit receives adult offenders committed or detained in the jail. Intake includes a medical screen and risk assessment. Property staff document and safeguard personal property, then issue detention clothing and bedding. Imaging records photographs, fingerprints, identifying marks, and arrest or charge information for entry into the jail and state systems. Classification uses the risk and needs information to place the person under Texas Commission on Jail Standards criteria.

The Bonding Office reviews release documents before a person is released to the street, transferred to TDCJ, transferred to another agency, or otherwise moved. Those documents can include cash bonds, surety bonds, personal bonds, commitments, orders to dismiss, judgments and sentences, and federal or outside-court paperwork. A $0.00 bail amount on a public record should not be read as automatic release because it may reflect a hold, missing amount, court status, or non-bondable situation.

About Fort Bend County Detention Facility

The county pages make the Fort Bend jail more specific than a generic booking center. Housing staff supervise feeding, medication distribution, recreation, sanitation, religious services, education, treatment programs, court-ordered work release, inmate workers, and mentally ill inmates. The Support Division handles specialized medical meals and grievance investigations. The same division is tied to PREA compliance and to U.S. Marshals contract-housing liaison work, which explains why some federal pretrial inmates may be physically held at the county jail even though federal case information belongs elsewhere.

For state-prison searches after sentencing, use the TDCJ inmate search and the state facility pages for Jester III, Wayne Scott, and Vance. For BOP custody, use the federal locator. For ICE custody, use ODLS. VINELink can help with custody notification where the agency participates, but it is not a complete jail roster.