How to Find an Inmate in an Odessa, Texas, Prison

The Ector Country Sheriff's office provides information about inmates in Odessa, Texas.

The Ector County Detention Center is located just South of Odessa, Texas. The Ector County Sheriff's Office oversees the Detention Center and have updated lists of all the inmates who are in their jail. There is a maximum number of 667 inmates housed at any given time at the Detention Center. The list of recent arrests is updated once a day, at midnight, and a new list is posted on the website at 12:15 a.m. Central Standard Time.

Things You'll Need

• Phone
• Full legal name, address and date of birth of the inmate

Instructions

1. Visit the inmate page of the Ector County Sheriff's Office website. Odessa Texas falls under the jurisdiction of Ector County. The Ector County Sheriff provides detailed lists of inmate in custody, including arrests made within the past 24 hours. The list include an inmate's full legal name and address, and information about the nature of the arrest.

2. Call the Detention Center of the Ector County Sheriff's Office. Have the person's full legal name, address and date of birth available.

3. Call the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The TDCJ has an information line to locate an inmate. Have the inmate's full date of birth on hand.

4. Email the TDCJ at [e-mail] for information about an inmate. If you do not have the inmate's seven-digit TDCJ number, you should at least have the inmate's full date of of birth. Specifically state in the email the reason for contact is to establish the location of an inmate. Enter the inmate's full legal name for the title or subject of the email.

Tips & Warnings

• Visitors to the Ector County Detention Center must first complete a Visitation Permit. The permits are handled on a first-come, first-serve basis, and can be printed off in advance from the Ector County Sheriff's Office website.

• Information such as photos or social security numbers of inmates aren't provided to the general public.

• The services listed above are free of charge.

References

• Ector County Sheriff's Office: Inmate Information
• Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Offender Information