The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byBee County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the county site heads the page 'Sheriff's Office and Jail' but gives the facility no name
- Address1509 Galloway Dr, Beeville, TX 78102
- Phone361-362-3221
- What was triedhttps://www.beecounty.gov/159/Sheriffs-Office , https://www.beecounty.gov/27/Government , https://www.beecounty.gov/182/Financial-Transparency
- Beds and population, 2026-0888 people held in 145 rated beds
Source: Bee County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗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
- Beds145 rated capacity (TCJS population report, 1 Aug 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Randy Aguirre
- OfficeBee County Sheriff's Office
- Address1509 Galloway Dr, Beeville, TX 78102
- Phone361-362-3221
- Fax361-362-3227
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Bee County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The 36th, 156th and 343rd Judicial District Courts are shared across five counties including Bee.
County Judge
- George P. "Trace" Morrill III
2nd Multi-County Court at Law
- Harvey Hardwick
District Courts
- Starr Bauer
- Patrick Flanigan
- Janna Whatley
Justices of the Peace
- Susana S. Contreras
- M.D. Showalter
- Abel Suniga
- Leticia Cantu
- 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
- Commissioners: Kristofer Linney (Pct 1), Dennis DeWitt (Pct 2), Sammy G. Farias (Pct 3), Tino Olivares (Pct 4).
- Budget PDFs are scanned images; OCR of the Adopted Budget 2026 shows a Sheriff's Office section and a 'New/Old Jail Facility Renovation' line, which is why budget is marked yes.
- The Sheriff's page offers no inmate roster, no bond guidance and no commissary or phone rates; it points the public to VINELink for custody status.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
3 people have died in the Bee County jail since 2016.
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 Bee 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