Castro County Three-Day Release Window
The Castro County Sheriff page has no rolling 72-hour view, 48-hour substitute, current roster, or date-filtered archive. It posts jail contact details and an old VINELink referral. Therefore, a Castro County three-day release result must come from direct confirmation or an existing government record, not from a web feed presented as official.
A 72-hour window is useful when one calendar day is too narrow. It can cover Friday through Sunday, a holiday interval, or a period when the exact exit date is uncertain. Yet it does not change the core proof. The release or transfer entry must identify the booking, time, type, and destination. A court order may explain authority, while the jail record establishes the actual custody exit.
Request Castro 72-Hour Releases
Define the interval before contacting the jail. “The last three days” moves with the clock and can lead to a partial response. Exact start and end timestamps make the request repeatable. Ask for existing jail-register data, not a newly written summary.
- Choose the local start and end times, including both dates.
- State that releases and transfers should be identified as separate events.
- Request name, booking number, exit time, release authority, and destination fields if maintained.
- Call 806-647-3311 to confirm the current written-request channel.
- Compare a named entry with the criminal court file when the disposition matters.
- Move to TDCJ, BOP, or ICE only when the record shows that agency received custody.
For a same-day interval, the Castro County 24-Hour Releases page narrows the wording without treating a current roster as release proof.
Castro 72-Hour Record Fields
No public Castro interface displays a standard field set. The table identifies the fields supported by the county jail-register and booking-release research, and what each can prove when supplied. A response may lawfully redact protected details.
| Requested field | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Legal name and aliases | Helps match the right person without relying on spelling alone. |
| Booking or intake number | Separates one custody episode from another. |
| Booking date and time | Shows when local custody began. |
| Release or transfer time | Places the exit within the three-day range. |
| Release type or authority | May show bond, time served, dismissal, sentence completion, or another basis. |
| Destination or receiving agency | Distinguishes community release from continued confinement elsewhere. |
| Court or case number | Points to the file explaining the legal result. |
Charges and bond data may be part of a related booking sheet. Neither a charge nor a booking proves guilt, and neither tells whether another authority still holds the person.
Castro Weekend Release Records
A wider interval can reduce date uncertainty around weekends and holidays, but Castro County has no posted weekend-release policy. Do not assume the jail releases a person early on Friday when a sentence is expected to expire later. A court order, warrant, detainer, receiving-agency schedule, or administrative check can alter the actual exit.
Ask for the recorded release time and authority after the event. For a county sentence, the signed judgment, jail-time credit, sheriff's authorized calculation, and final release entry belong together. TDCJ's projected release field cannot be borrowed for a Castro County jail term. It applies only after a person enters the state corrections system.
Processing time also affects what staff can confirm. A call may reveal present custody before all related documents are ready for production. That is why the three-day request should include each event in the interval and should not depend on a page snapshot.
Note: No source supports a fixed Castro County weekend timetable, so travel or pickup should follow direct jail confirmation.
Castro Release Versus Transfer
One jail booking can end in several ways. Bond or personal bond permits the case to proceed while the person is outside jail. Time served or sentence completion can satisfy a confinement term. A dismissal affects the charge, but does not erase the booking by itself. Transfer ends Castro County custody while another authority continues confinement.
| Recorded event | Next source |
|---|---|
| Community release | Castro jail release entry and the correct court file |
| TDCJ transfer | TDCJ current inmate search after state intake |
| Another county | The receiving sheriff or jail |
| Federal sentenced custody | BOP Inmate Locator |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator and ERO |
TDCJ data is updated on working days and is at least 24 hours old. Its public search excludes former inmates. Texas IVSS-Counties may provide a custody-change alert for a named person if Castro participates, but a former person may disappear. These limits make the county release sheet the better historical proof.
Castro County Records Request
Send a focused request under Texas Government Code chapter 552 to the Castro County Sheriff's Office, 900 E. Bedford Street, Dimmitt, TX 79027. The official site lists no records email, online form, fee schedule, or office hours. Call 806-647-3311 for the current submission route before sending personal identifiers.
Ask for “jail-register entries for all persons released or transferred from [start] through [end], local time,” followed by the specific existing fields sought. Request releasable portions if an exception applies. Electronic copies can reduce handling, and an advance cost estimate can prevent surprise charges. Texas law requires prompt production, but it does not set one universal number of days for every request.
A person-specific request can add the booking sheet, release authorization, transfer sheet, and related photograph if maintained. A three-day dataset should stay bounded. Broad questions about why each person left may require legal research or a new record that the agency does not have to create.
No Castro Roster Archive
Castro County's lack of a roster archive is the key local data fact. No official page lets a reader compare yesterday's roster with today's or infer release from a name that vanished. Even in systems that do publish current custody, absence can reflect a misspelled name, alias, lag, protected record, transfer, expunction, or a record outside the search range.
The correct archive route is a bounded jail-register request. Texas State Library Schedule PS describes that register as including the date of release or transfer. Asking for both events prevents a list from falsely counting a move to prison, another jail, USMS, or ICE as release to the community.
Castro Three-Day Custody Channels
Texas IVSS-Counties can help with a named person's current custody change if Castro participates. It accepts a full or partial name, DOC ID, SID, Jail ID, or permanent booking number. The portal focuses on people currently in custody or under supervision, so a former person can disappear. Registration is useful for a future alert, but it cannot reconstruct every event in a past three-day interval.
The TDCJ inmate search serves another purpose. It covers people then incarcerated in a Texas prison or state jail, is updated on working days, and is at least 24 hours old. A person transferred from Castro County Jail after a state sentence may appear after intake. A person released on bond from the county jail will not gain a TDCJ record merely because of that local booking.
For federal sentenced custody, use the BOP locator. ICE's locator addresses current civil immigration detention and is not a historical release archive. USMS pretrial custody has no comparable public former-prisoner search. Open those systems only when the Castro release or transfer record points to that jurisdiction.
A three-day search can cross systems because the county booking may close before the next agency finishes intake. Preserve the time each source was checked. Apparent conflicts may reflect update schedules. Ask the source agency to reconcile its own record instead of choosing the earliest date or treating silence as release.
Confirm Castro Three-Day Results
Use the Sheriff record first for a person held only in Castro County. Then use the County Clerk for a misdemeanor file or the District Clerk for a felony file. A docket, bond order, judgment, dismissal, or sentence can explain the legal outcome, though it may not show the exact time the jail doors opened.
- Release
- An exit from custody that does not itself state how the criminal case ended.
- Transfer
- A move between custodial agencies, not freedom.
- Detainer
- A request or basis for another authority to take or keep custody.
- Projected date
- An estimate or legal milestone, not a completed release event.
Keep the record date, source agency, and booking number together. That prevents a three-day result from being confused with an old booking or a state-prison event.