Gregg County Jail / South Jail Inmate Search

Gregg County Jail / South Jail Overview

Gregg County Jail / South Jail is operated by the Gregg County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Maxey Cerliano. The facility is listed by the sheriff's visitation material as the South Jail on the 5th floor of the courthouse at 101 East Methvin Street in Longview. It functions as part of the local jail system for people in county custody, including pretrial defendants, people serving county jail time, holds, and other jail classifications handled by the sheriff.

The South Jail should be understood together with the North Jail and the Marvin A. Smith Facility. The official county jail search is countywide, so it does not work like a separate building roster. A person may appear in the Gregg County jail inmate search while the practical visitor question is still which building and schedule apply. Before traveling downtown, confirm whether the person is assigned to South Jail rather than North Jail or Marvin A. Smith.

Gregg County Jail / South Jail Capacity and Population

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards reported Gregg County's countywide jail capacity as 916 beds and total jail population as 680 on June 1, 2026. That figure is countywide across the jail system. A separate official bed count for South Jail was not located in the sheriff, county, or TCJS sources reviewed, so the facility should not be described with its own stand-alone rated capacity.

TCJS figures help explain overall system pressure, but they do not tell families which floor, dorm, or building a person is assigned to. The county roster and jail phone line are the practical tools for current housing confirmation.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Gregg County Jail / South Jail

Use the sheriff-linked Gregg County Odyssey jail search for county jail custody. This is the correct lookup path for South Jail because it is a county jail facility. Do not use the Texas Department of Criminal Justice search unless the person has been transferred to state prison after sentencing.

1. Open the official county Odyssey jailing search from the sheriff's Jail Division pathway.
2. Search by the fields displayed in the Tyler/Odyssey form. Exact field labels were not inspectable in the research pass, so follow the live form prompts.
3. Confirm the person is in Gregg County jail custody and look for any facility or housing information shown.
4. If the page does not clarify the building, call 903-236-1755 for jail-related questions or 903-236-8400 for the sheriff's main line.

The county jail roster is separate from court records. Booking charges can change after prosecutor review, and final court disposition belongs in the court record, not the jail roster. For background on the countywide roster path, see the Jail Inmate Records page.

Gregg County Jail / South Jail Address and Contact

The South Jail is the courthouse facility. The sheriff's administrative suite is also in the courthouse, but mail, visitation, and jail questions use different instructions depending on the purpose. Jail operations are listed by the county as available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, while administrative office hours on the sheriff site are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Visiting Someone at Gregg County Jail / South Jail

South Jail visits are non-contact regular visits under the sheriff's visitor-card rules. An inmate may request a visitation card after incarceration and may list up to five immediate-family visitors. Approval can take up to 10 days, and changes are generally handled at 30-day intervals. Visitors age 17 or older need proper identification and must check in with the officer in the visitation lobby.

The sheriff's visitation page lists the South Jail schedule with the other county jail buildings.

Because the schedule differs by building, use the image as a reminder to verify the South Jail assignment before arriving at the courthouse.

Visitors who arrive more than two hours after the visitation period begins may not be allowed to visit. Regular visitors must follow the dress code and prohibited-item rules, including no cell phones, purses, weapons, cameras, lighters, glass containers, or other restricted items in the visitation area.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Gregg County Jail / South Jail

Gregg County uses different channels for communications, mail, and trust-fund money. NCIC handles inmate calls, remote video, messages, and picture/document messaging. TigerDeposits handles online trust-fund deposits for county inmates. The regular non-legal mail address is a scanning address, and mail sent there is processed electronically and destroyed after processing.

Mail must include the inmate's name, Sheriff's Office booking number, and a return address. Regular mail is limited to paper no wider than 8.5 by 11 inches, no more than five pages, front-side writing only, and one photo per mailing. Legal and medical mail should not be sent to the PO Box scanning address.

Booking and Intake at Gregg County Jail / South Jail

Gregg County does not publish a detailed step-by-step South Jail intake narrative in the reviewed official pages, but the jail-service pages confirm several practical parts of the process. Booking creates jail identifiers, including the SO# used for mail and money orders. Cash in an inmate's possession at booking is deposited into the trust fund account, and the inmate later accesses funds through the jail's armband bar code system.

Housing assignment is a sheriff's office classification matter. A person arrested in Gregg County may be assigned to South Jail, North Jail, or Marvin A. Smith depending on classification and available housing. Federal or immigration holds can also affect release timing because Gregg County has a USMS housing agreement and a 2025 ICE 287(g) Jail Enforcement Model agreement. Those agreements do not make South Jail a federal prison or an ICE locator facility; they mean some county jail inmates may also have federal or immigration custody issues.

County Jail, State Prison, Federal, and ICE Distinctions

South Jail is a local county jail facility. The Gregg County Odyssey jail search is for county jail custody, while TDCJ covers people currently incarcerated in Texas state prison. The BOP locator covers federal sentenced inmates from 1982 to present. ICE's Online Detainee Locator System is separate from both county and state databases and is used for immigration detention searches.

If a search fails, match the lookup to the custody stage. A recent Longview or Gregg County arrest is most likely a county jail question. A sentenced state prisoner belongs in TDCJ. A federal sentence belongs in BOP. An immigration detention question belongs with ICE ODLS, while a local hold or detainer question may still require a call to the Gregg County jail line.

About Gregg County Jail / South Jail

South Jail's public-facing identity is tied to the downtown courthouse area in Longview. Gregg County's sheriff material places the county in the East Texas Piney Woods along the I-20 corridor between Dallas and Shreveport, and local jail logistics reflect that geography. A courthouse jail visit is different from a trip to the North Jail or the Kilgore-area Marvin A. Smith Facility, even though all three are part of the county jail system.

Published reentry and jail-program detail for Gregg County is limited in the reviewed official sources. Confirmed service systems include visitation, NCIC communications, digital mail, and inmate trust fund or commissary procedures. State oversight for county jail standards and population reporting is through the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.