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FAQs

What is the capacity of the Hidalgo County Jail? ›

The Hidalgo County Adult Detention Center is at maximum capacity, according to Sheriff Eddie Guerra. The facility currently has more than 1,200 beds – and each one is currently taken by an inmate, Guerra said.

You can call (956) 318-2200 to request case information. Please have your case number ready.

McAllen, city, Hidalgo county, southern Texas, U.S., in the irrigated lower Rio Grande valley, 7 miles (11 km) from the International Bridge to Reynosa, Mexico, and some 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of Brownsville. With Edinburg and Pharr, McAllen forms a metropolitan complex.

If you are requesting items such as birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, deeds, copies of wills, Commissioners Court minutes, foreclosures, DBAs or subdivision plats, please contact the Hidalgo County Clerk's Office at (956) 318-2100.

Jails can be categorized according to size. Mega jails have a 1,000-plus bed capacity. Large jails have a 250- to 999-bed capacity. Medium jails have a 50- to 249-bed capacity.

A super-maximum security (supermax) or administrative maximum (ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison, or a unit within prisons, which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain countries.

Texas doesn't have a single database where you can search all court records for the state. Each court is responsible for keeping their own records. Some courts make their records available online, but you may have to contact the court clerk to get access and pay a service fee.

By the law, deferred adjudication and conviction records are regarded as public information and may be made available to the general public. However, criminal records that have been expunged or placed under an order of nondisclosure are restricted from public access.

Hidalgo County, TX - Official Website.

McAllen is actually much smaller than Laredo, but the McAllen Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is a little more than 1 million.

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To file an Open Records Request online, CLICK HERE. There may be a fee for the open records. We will contact you directly regarding any charges associated with your request. If you have any questions, please call the Records Department at (956)289-7795.

Harris County operates the largest jail in Texas and the 3rd largest jail in the United States. The Command is comprised of 4 bureaus: Justice Housing 1200, Justice Housing 701, Justice Management and the Detention Support Services Bureau.

Background. Los Angeles County operates the world's largest jail system, and despite an incarceration rate well below the national average, its jails remain critically overcrowded.

The facility has an operational capacity of 1,244 people with 48 percent being comprised of people in maximum custody.

Texas has 252 jails in 254 counties. The jail population in 2020 was 69,610.