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Bartlett Unit Prison Overview

Bartlett Unit, also listed by TDCJ as Bartlett Unit (BL), is a Correctional Institutions Division prison west of Bartlett in northern Williamson County. TDCJ lists it as a male facility. Its custody profile is G1-G2, transient, and restrictive housing. That makes it different from Williamson County Jail, which handles local booking, pretrial detention, bonds, short county sentences, and jail releases. Bartlett Unit custody starts after state-prison commitment, transfer, reception, classification, and TDCJ assignment.

The official TDCJ unit page names Senior Warden Lorie Larson and Region IV Regional Director Angela Chevalier. The unit came online in October 1995, covers about 62 acres, and has American Correctional Association accreditation listed since January 2006. TDCJ reports 199 total employees, including 140 security employees, 34 non-security employees, 11 education employees, 9 contract medical employees, and 1 mental-health employee. Those details show a prison campus with state agency staffing, not a county jail desk.

The TDCJ Bartlett Unit page is the source for the facility image and core prison facts.

The image source is useful because it verifies the prison's address, phone, custody levels, capacity, warden, region, staffing figures, and accreditation in one official TDCJ record.

Bartlett Unit Capacity

TDCJ lists Bartlett Unit capacity at 1,049. The facility map for Williamson County uses that number for the local state-prison entry. The county jail population statistics from TCJS do not count Bartlett Unit prisoners as the Williamson County Jail population, even though the prison is physically inside the county. A sentenced person from Williamson County may be assigned to Bartlett, but TDCJ may also assign that person to another Texas unit based on classification, bed space, medical or mental-health needs, security level, program needs, and agency decisions.

Bartlett Unit Inmate Lookup

Use the TDCJ Inmate Search for Bartlett Unit. Do not use the Williamson County Jail Lookup unless the person is still locally booked at the county jail. The county jail roster covers pretrial and local jail custody; the TDCJ locator covers sentenced state prisoners. That distinction is critical for families who search "Williamson County inmate" and see both a county jail and a state prison inside the same county.

1. Open the TDCJ Inmate Search, not the county judicial records jail lookup.
2. Search by TDCJ number or SID number if either identifier is known.
3. Use last name and first name when a prison number is not available.
4. Review the result for current facility, offense, sentence, and release or parole information when published.
5. Confirm that the current facility field lists Bartlett Unit before planning a visit or sending mail.

Bartlett Unit Contact

Bartlett Unit questions should be routed to TDCJ and the unit, not to the Williamson County jail information line. The county jail cannot approve Bartlett visits, change TDCJ mail rules, accept state-prison trust fund deposits, or verify a TDCJ housing assignment. The TDCJ unit page lists the prison's main phone with an extension note, and statewide TDCJ pages control broader visitation, commissary, and trust fund procedures.

Bartlett Unit Visits

Bartlett Unit visitation follows TDCJ visitation rules, not county jail Securus scheduling. Visitors normally must be approved, must follow TDCJ identification and dress rules, and must use TDCJ scheduling procedures or unit-specific instructions. The research did not locate a confirmed Bartlett-only day-and-hour table, so the correct advice is to check TDCJ visitation rules and the unit before travel.

Bartlett Unit Mail

Mail, phone, commissary, and trust fund rules for Bartlett Unit are TDCJ rules. Do not send Bartlett Unit money through Williamson County Jail's CorrectPay channel, and do not use Tiger Commissary for a TDCJ prison account. TDCJ's commissary and trust fund page is the correct starting point for state-prison deposits and commissary policy. Mail should identify the prisoner's official TDCJ name and number and follow current TDCJ address formatting and content rules.

Bartlett Unit Intake

Bartlett Unit does not perform street-arrest booking for Georgetown, Round Rock, Taylor, Cedar Park, Leander, or other Williamson County law-enforcement agencies. Local arrests go through the county jail or another short-term holding process first. A person reaches TDCJ after conviction, sentencing, commitment, and state intake. TDCJ then classifies the person and assigns a unit based on custody level, available space, medical and mental-health needs, program requirements, and other state factors.

A county jail record and a TDCJ record can both matter in the same criminal history, but they serve different stages. The jail record starts with arrest and local custody. The court record tracks filed charges and disposition. The TDCJ locator reflects the state-prison sentence and current prison assignment. When a person moves from Williamson County Jail to TDCJ, the county jail page may no longer answer the custody question.

Bartlett Unit Records

The TDCJ locator can show identifiers, name, demographic fields, current facility, offense and sentence information, and projected release or parole information where available. It is not a county booking roster and should not be used to infer an arrest-only charge. VINELink may help with custody notifications, but it does not replace the TDCJ locator for the official prison assignment.

For a person who was arrested in Williamson County and later sentenced to prison, criminal case records remain in the county court system while prison custody records move to TDCJ. Use the county criminal case portal for filed charges, settings, and dispositions. Use TDCJ for prison location and sentence custody. For current local jail custody before transfer, the Williamson County Jail page and jail lookup are the right route. That split keeps arrest records, court records, and state-prison custody records in their proper lanes.