This website is a private reference guide, not a Howard County office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, schedule visits, accept money, or retrieve official booking records. Use the official office that controls the record or custody question.
Where to Route Howard County Record Questions
For jail custody questions, start with the Howard County Detention Center. The county research did not find a separate sheriff records-unit webpage, a county jail-records email address, or a dedicated online Public Information Act request form, so phone, mail, in-person contact, and written Texas Public Information Act requests are the supported fallbacks.
Howard County Detention Center
3611 W. Hwy 80
Big Spring, TX 79720
Phone: 432-264-6051
Fax: 432-263-5355
Howard County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Stan Parker
3611 W. Hwy 80
Big Spring, TX 79720
Mailing address: P.O. Box 1149, Big Spring, TX 79721
Main phone: 432-264-2231
Fax: 432-264-9117
Howard County Court and Clerk Contacts
District Clerk JoAnna Gonzales, 118th District Court Building, 312 Scurry, Big Spring, TX 79720. Phone: 432-264-2223. Fax: 432-264-2256. Posted hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 am to 5 pm, closed noon to 1 pm, and Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, open through lunch.
118th District Court, 312 Scurry, Big Spring, TX 79721. Phone: 432-264-2225. The research notes posted court hours as Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, with Friday also listed as 8 am to 4 pm and open through lunch.
District Attorney Josh Hamby, 312 Scurry, Big Spring, TX 79721. Mailing address: P.O. Drawer 149, Big Spring, TX 79721. Phone: 432-264-2220. Fax: 432-264-2222.
County Office Hours
The Howard County courthouse footer lists general county hours as 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. No separate detention-center lobby hours were found in the official county pages reviewed, so call 432-264-6051 before visiting the jail for records, bond, visitation, or money questions.
Use these routing notes to avoid sending a jail question to the wrong system:
- For someone booked into the county jail, use jail inmate records, the county Judicial/Jail Record Search, and the detention-center line at 432-264-6051.
- For booking photographs, read jail roster mugshots first because Texas Article 15.26 limits law-enforcement publication of arrest booking photos.
- For charges filed after an arrest, use court records after a jail arrest, the District Clerk, and the appropriate court.
- For facility-specific questions, use the facility pages linked in the footer for the Howard County Detention Center or FCI Big Spring.
- For a sentenced Texas state prisoner, use the Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate search instead of the county jail roster.
- For a federal prisoner at FCI Big Spring, use the BOP inmate locator. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS. VINELink may help with custody-status notifications where available.