The Detention Center
Bastrop County Jail
- Operated byBastrop County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — 'Bastrop County Jail' appears in the PREA audit report hosted on the county site
- Jail address200 Jackson Street, Bastrop, TX 78602
- Inmate information line(512) 549-5073
- No jail landing pageco.bastrop/lec.jail returns 403; jail material sits under the Sheriff's Office menu
- Beds and population, 2026-08329 people held in 372 rated beds
Source: Bastrop County PREA page · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds372 rated capacity (TCJS population report, 1 Aug 2026); 400 designated capacity in the county's 2025 PREA audit report
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Maurice Cook
- OfficeBastrop County Sheriff's Office
- Address200 Jackson Street, Bastrop, TX 78602
- Phone(512) 549-5100
- Also named as agency CEO2025 PREA final audit report for Bastrop County Jail
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Bastrop County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
District judges taken from the 21st, 335th, 423rd and 465th District Court pages on the county site.
County Judge
- Gregory Klaus
County Court at Law
- Benton Eskew
District Courts
- Carson Campbell
- John D. Winkelmann
- Christopher D. Duggan
- Elizabeth Beyer
Justices of the Peace
- Cindy Allen
- Zachary Carter
- Krystal Stabeno
- Larry Dunne
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-22
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The PREA final audit report (auditor Valerie Wolfe Mahfood, Corrections Consulting Services, dated 16 May 2025) is posted on the county site and gives designated capacity 400, population on the day of the visit 264, and 12-month average daily population 289 — that is why 'capacity' is marked yes.
- Budget: the FY2025-26 adopted budget contains 'Department: 562 - COUNTY JAIL' with jail administrator, corrections officer, support staff and commissary line items.
- bond_info marked no: the county publishes a list of 14 authorised bail bonding companies but no instructions on how to post a bond.
- fees marked no: the Inmate Funds page names VendEngine but publishes no commissary, phone or video-visit rates.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
7 people have died in the Bastrop County jail since 2019.
Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Bastrop County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-22 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered