Madison County 24-Hour Booking Feed
Madison County links to InteropWeb's 24 Hours Arrests page, headed “Inmates Booked Last 24 Hours.” The time window is keyed to booking, not release. It can show a rapid booking and release because an entry remains inside the cohort after its status changes. It cannot capture every release completed during the same day.
That distinction controls every result. Someone booked two days ago but released this morning falls outside the booking window. Someone booked this morning and still confined appears beside someone already marked RELEASED. The page publishes no release timestamp, release reason, or transfer destination.
| Vendor view | What it includes | What it cannot prove |
|---|---|---|
| Current Inmates | Bookings still active on the county roster | Where a removed person went |
| 24 Hours Arrests | People booked in the preceding 24-hour cohort, including some marked released | All people released during the period |
| Arrest-date search | Current and released records filtered by arrest date | A release-date range |
| Sheriff release record | Existing booking-out, movement, authorization, and disposition fields | Another agency's later custody unless the destination is recorded |
RELEASED means the county booking is no longer active in that vendor record. It does not necessarily mean release into the community.Check Madison County Releases in 24 Hours
Use a short evidence ladder so the online status is not mistaken for a complete movement record.
- Open the 24 Hours Arrests page and compare the full name, booking date, arresting agency, and listed charges. Avoid identifying someone from a photograph alone.
- Read the status.
CURRENTLY BOOKEDindicates an active county booking at the time of the display;RELEASEDindicates that booking ended. - Check the Current Inmates page. Absence is consistent with release or transfer but does not reveal which occurred.
- If the booking began before the rolling day, use Inmates by Arrest Date with an appropriate booking range.
- For exact time, reason, and destination, request the booking-out sheet and custody movement history from the sheriff.
- Follow the destination. Use TDCJ for a state transfer, ICE ODLS for immigration custody, the BOP locator for an applicable federal sentence, or another named county or agency.
A court disposition helps explain legal authority, while the jail record documents operational movement. A bond order, dismissal, or time-served judgment does not by itself prove that staff cleared every hold and completed release.
Fields in Madison County Release Results
Observed InteropWeb records include a photo; name; sex; race; height; weight; hair and eye color; arrest date; arrest time; arresting agency; address; age; booking date and time; charge; bond amount and type; warrant or case number; and status. Those fields identify a booking, not a complete release record.
Important missing fields are the actual release date and time, release type or disposition, authorizing order, and transfer destination. Ask the sheriff for those items rather than calculating a release time from the last portal view. The absence of a destination is especially important when charge text mentions a parole warrant, blue warrant, out-of-county warrant, or another hold.
The official 24-hour screen below demonstrates the page label and a released status inside a booking cohort. Personal facts should be assessed only for a legitimate record-identification purpose.
The image supports the key distinction: the screen groups booking times, while status can change afterward.
Madison County Update and Retention Limits
InteropWeb publishes no refresh promise, ingestion timestamp, or service level. “Current” and “last 24 hours” identify vendor views, not a guaranteed update cadence. For a time-sensitive question, call Madison County Jail at 936-348-2755 and then obtain the written record when durable confirmation is needed.
The public portal also gives no retention period. Released records can persist in the arrest-date search, but that does not establish how far back it is complete. Texas Local Schedule PS supplies a records fallback: the county jail register under PS4200-06 is permanent and includes at least the name, gender, intake number, confinement reason, and release or transfer date. Booking-in/out forms and commitment, transfer, and release orders under PS4200-10 carry a minimum of release or transfer plus two years.
Portal disappearance therefore does not mean the government record vanished. Ask first for the permanent jail-register entry, then any still-retained booking and release packet.
Request a Madison County Release Record
The sheriff page links a one-page Open Records Request. It asks for the request date, requester contact information, agency case number, description, signature, and date. The form says information is not given by telephone and completed results are held for ten business days after notice.
Request existing records with narrow language: the booking-in and booking-out sheet, actual release date and time, release disposition or transfer destination, release authorization held by the jail, custody movement history, and booking photograph, tied to the person's name, approximate booking date, and known number. Ask for reasonably segregable nonconfidential portions if part is withheld.
The form lists 2005 E. Main Street, while the current sheriff page identifies 3301 E. Main as the Sheriff's Office and 2005 E. Main as the jail. Call 936-348-2755 to confirm current submission routing. No fixed local fee was located; ask for an itemized estimate and electronic native-format records where practical. Government Code Chapter 552 requires prompt production, not an automatic ten-business-day wait.
Pickup After a Madison County Release
Madison County publishes no transportation, waiting-area, pickup-time, or after-hours release instructions for its jail. Call 936-348-2755 before traveling and ask staff what information can be provided about the process. Do not assume that practices described for a TDCJ prison apply at the county jail.
TDCJ's statewide instructions differ: they describe a bus voucher when bus transportation is used and permit family pickup at the actual releasing facility. Jim Ferguson Unit is inside Madison County, but a scheduled TDCJ release can occur at another regional release site. Families should follow the Scheduled Release Location and current TDCJ instructions rather than treating the prison of confinement as the pickup gate.
Why the 24-Hour Results Need Verification
The 24 Hours Arrests page is useful because it can retain a rapid release within a recent booking cohort. Yet research also observed an impossible arrest year of 2998 in live InteropWeb data. That nonidentifying example shows why vendor output should be compared with the sheriff record and court case before a date is repeated as fact.
No official mobile release feature was verified. Madison County's government app describes public safety, news, police, fire, and emergency-management functions but does not document an inmate search, release list, or mugshot function. JailATM is a trust-account service, not proof of a release channel. Use the official linked web views and records process.
Release or Transfer From Madison County Jail
A county booking may end through bond, court-ordered release, time served, another terminating event, or transfer. A RELEASED flag covers the end of the county booking but does not distinguish those paths. Ask for release disposition, movement destination, and the authorizing record.
For TDCJ, use the state search while the person remains in custody and Parole Division records after release. For an ICE detainer, county release can mean entry into federal immigration custody; ODLS covers current custody and releases from ICE custody within the preceding 60 days, subject to limitations. A transfer to another county requires that county's roster or records office. Present custody is a separate question from whether the Madison booking closed.
Match Madison County Court Records
The County Clerk is the practical starting point for county-level misdemeanor matters, while the District Clerk supports felony cases in the 12th and 278th Judicial District Courts. Ask for the docket sheet, charging instrument, bond order or return, judgment, disposition, sentence, jail-credit notation, dismissal, warrant event, or supervision order that fits the case.
Those documents can explain authority but may omit the operational booking-out time. Pair them with the sheriff release sheet. Madison County Court posts calendars and docket documents, but they are snapshots rather than a comprehensive criminal name index. The County Clerk's “Online Search” link is for land records and should not be used as a criminal-record search.
When a Madison County Release Is Missing
Try spelling variants and the arrest-date view, then confirm that Madison County Jail was actually the last custodian. A municipal arresting-agency label such as Madisonville Police Department identifies who made the arrest; it does not mean the police department ran a separate long-term jail or completed release.
For older records, request the jail-register entry and booking/release packet. A lawful sealing or expunction can also affect public visibility. Do not reconstruct or republish sealed or expunged material. If records conflict, provide the sheriff with the authoritative court or release document in a written correction request; Madison County publishes no dedicated correction form.
The Madison County released inmate search covers the broader evidence ladder, and Jail Releases: 72 Hours explains how a three-day arrest range differs from a release feed.