Where Motley Contract-Jail Book-Outs Go
“Motley County contract jail” is a booking-specific role, not the official name of one fixed building. Texas jail-standard reports show Motley prisoners housed elsewhere, but the researched county pages do not name a universal receiving jail. The sheriff must identify the custodian for the date in question.
A book-out can end in a bond or time-served community release. It can also show return to Motley County, transfer to another county, delivery to TDCJ, or another agency hold. The destination field matters as much as the word “released.” A receiving jail's release to the Motley sheriff is still custody until Motley documents a later community exit.
How to Confirm a Motley Contract-Jail Release
No countywide Motley roster or release feed supplies this answer. A named-person inquiry must reconstruct the custody chain.
- Call the Motley County Sheriff with the full name, birth date if known, and arrest date.
- Obtain the receiving jail's official name, booking number, and custody dates.
- Ask that jail for its book-out transaction, release type, time, destination, and reflected holds.
- Match the record to a signed court order when the claim is bond, dismissal, acquittal, or time served.
- Follow the named destination if the entry records TDCJ, another county, federal custody, or return to Motley.
The Motley County released-inmate search guide explains the full local record path. A missing current-roster result proves only that the person is not displayed on that view.
Contract-Jail Records and Motley Contact
The receiving jail's address, phone, records unit, fees, and hours cannot be stated until the sheriff identifies it. Do not use a commercial directory's generic “Motley County Jail” listing as a substitute.
Robert Fisk, Sheriff
PO Box 715, Matador, TX 79244
Phone: 806-347-2234
Fax: 806-347-2692
Ask Motley for the booking sheet, custody-location history, transfer or release entry, and destination. Send the receiving custodian a second request for the corresponding book-in and book-out, any release code, and any hold or receiving-agency field. Request existing records, not a newly compiled report. No supported local fee schedule was found, so obtain an estimate before copies are produced.
About Motley County's Boarding Model
Official reports give Motley a rated jail capacity of zero while still showing a local incarcerated population. Housed-elsewhere snapshots counted five people in February 2021, four in May 2021, and three in August 2022. The proposed county budget also retains a Jail-Prisoner Upkeep line.
These sources support boarding outside the county. They do not identify a permanent jail, annual releases, or average length of stay. Placement may differ by date or booking, so a correct answer must stay tied to the individual transaction.
Reading a Motley Receiving-Jail Disposition
Release labels must be read with the destination. “Bond” can describe the legal basis, but a bond amount alone does not prove it was posted. “Time served” needs the judgment, credited time, and custodian's release entry. “Transfer” identifies a custody move, not unrestricted freedom.
| Receiving-jail entry | What to verify next |
|---|---|
| Released on bond | Filed bond or release order and all reflected holds |
| Released to Motley County | Later Motley disposition and community-exit record |
| Transferred to TDCJ | TDCJ offender record after normal data processing |
| Transferred to another jail | New custodian's book-in and later book-out |
| Time served | Judgment, credit, calculation, and physical exit time |
A docket may remain open after bond release, and dismissal of one charge may leave another hold. Report only what the official transaction confirms.
Motley Contract-Jail Record Matching
Compare full name, aliases, birth date, booking number, offense date, cause number, and agency identifiers. Similar names and different numbering systems can produce a false match. Preserve the source and date for each fact.
When records use conflicting dates, determine whether one is a court order date, transport date, book-out time, or later database update. Those dates answer different questions. The physical exit is best shown by the custodian's transaction, while the court record explains the authority.
Note: A blank roster result can reflect transfer, delay, spelling, restriction, or release and cannot choose among them.
Historic Jail Claims Versus Current Motley Custody
Commercial pages often describe a courthouse “Motley County Jail,” roster, capacity, visitation system, or release process. Those claims conflict with the official zero-capacity and housed-elsewhere evidence and were not accepted as current custody facts.
The careful approach is to call before travel. No official source states a universal release door, pickup point, schedule, bus route, or property procedure because the physical jail can vary. Once the jail is known, ask that facility about identification, property, pickup timing, and transport rules.
This local distinction is substantive. A search aimed at the wrong building may miss the actual book-out record and may wrongly turn a transfer into a claimed release.
Requesting the Two Sides of a Contract-Jail Record
Begin the Motley request with enough detail to isolate one event: full name, aliases, birth date if known, arrest date, alleged offense, and incident or booking number. Ask for the booking sheet, placement decision, receiving-facility name, transport or custody-location history, and final Motley disposition. The sheriff may hold a local summary while the contract jail holds the timed physical transactions. A useful response should identify which agency had custody at each point rather than merely state that the person is no longer in one database.
Send the receiving jail a request tied to its own booking number. Seek the book-in, book-out, release or transfer code, date and time, destination, receiving authority, and holds reflected when the person left. If the facility maintains an existing release log, request the relevant entry rather than asking staff to create a custom list. Ask about lawful copy charges before production because the Motley research did not establish a universal fee for whichever county served as custodian.
Then reconcile the records. Different dates can reflect arrest, transport, court authorization, book-out, arrival at the next agency, or database posting. They are not necessarily contradictions. If the contract jail says “released to Motley County,” request Motley's later entry. If it says TDCJ, wait for normal processing and match the person in the state offender system. If it names ICE, USMS, or another county, follow the named custodian and keep the event labeled as a transfer.
For bond, the sound pair is a filed bond or release order and a timed jail exit. For time served, use the judgment, credited time, and custodian calculation. For dismissal or acquittal, use the signed court outcome and book-out. An open case may continue long after bond release, while a closed case may not reveal the exact door time. The court record and jail record answer related but different questions.
Identity checks should use more than a name. Compare birth date, aliases, booking number, offense date, cause number, and each agency's identifiers. Preserve the source and date checked. A blank roster view can result from release, transfer, lag, spelling, restriction, or a view that displays only current detainees. It cannot decide among those outcomes.
When travel or pickup is planned, call the identified jail directly. Official Motley sources do not establish one release exit, schedule, property procedure, bus route, or pickup rule because the physical facility can change. Ask only after the sheriff names the jail, and verify again near the expected time because court orders and holds can alter processing.
A focused public-information request should seek records that already exist. Ask for the booking and release sheet or custody history for one person and a defined date range, with the holding agency, book-in and book-out times, disposition, releasing authority, bond facts, destination, and receiving agency. Request electronic copies and accept lawful redaction of protected fields. If expected charges exceed $40, Texas law provides for an itemized estimate that can help narrow the request. The response should come from the governmental body that holds the record. Motley cannot substitute for the receiving jail's timed exit transaction, and the receiving jail cannot replace Motley's arrest, placement, or transport history.