About Hays County Jail

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Hays County Jail, located in San Marcos, Texas, is a medium-security jail that is managed by the Hays County Sheriff’s Department and houses adult inmates. This facility has 362 inmates at capacity and employs 100 jail staff.

All of the inmates serving time in the Hays County Jail are either awaiting trial or have been sentenced to a year or less by the Hays County Court System. The Hays County Criminal Justice Center houses the Hays County Sheriff’s Department, San Marcos Police Department, and the 80,000-square foot jail.

Inmate Search

If you want to know if an inmate is serving time at Hays County Jail, you can search their name on the Texas Department of Corrections page.

To inquire about an inmate, you can also call the jail at 512-393-7800.

Sending a Mail/Care Package

Inmates may receive letters, legal mail, and books and magazines publications from publishers only.

To write to an inmate, you need the inmate’s name and DOC number and the name and address.

Address both the letter and envelope as follows:

Offender name, DOC#

Hays County Jail
1307 Uhland Road, San Marcos, TX, 78666

All incoming and outgoing mail is read by jail staff except if it is labeled legal mail.

All mail should contain a sender’s return address. Mail will be checked before it officially arrives to the inmate. If mail does not pass inspection, the mail will either be returned to sender, or it will be discarded.

Sending Money

If you want to send money to an inmate, you can submit money orders, cashier’s checks, and tax returns made out in the name of the inmate who is to receive the funds. The Hays County Jail will not accept cash, personal checks, or payroll checks.

Friends and family of inmates can also send money electronically without the use of money orders through JPay.com. Visit JPay.com for your free account and you can send money to your inmate any time. The money will post on their account in 24 hours or less.

Inmates may only receive money from people on their approved visitor list. If you are a friend or family member of an inmate and do not know if you are on their visitor list, please call 512-393-7800 to see if you are. If you are not, you will need to ask the inmate to put you on the list.

Phone calls

Through Securtel, inmates at Hays County Jail can talk to friends and family at the local rate no matter where they might live.

When you sign-up at Secutel, you will be assigned either a local or long distance phone number to the Securus jail facility. When the inmate calls your new number, the call is redirected to your cell phone and charged at the lowest possible rate charges by Securustech.net.

Securus provides unlimited minutes per month and unlimited calls per month, although Hays County Jail’s phone rules will have limits on the call times.

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