The Detention Center
Bexar County Adult Detention Center
- Operated byBexar County Sheriff's Office (Adult Detention Bureau)
- County publishes a jail nameYes — 'Bexar County Adult Detention Center' on the county's inmate money/care package page and in its staff directory
- Address200 N. Comal St, San Antonio, TX 78207
- Commissary / deposits vendorAccess Corrections and Access SecurePak
- Phone vendorNot named on the money page
- Beds and population, 2026-084,653 people held in 5,108 rated beds
Source: Inmate — How to Send Money or Care Packages · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓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
- ✗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
- Beds5,108 rated capacity (TCJS population report, 1 Aug 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Javier Salazar
- OfficeBexar County Sheriff's Office
- Address200 N. Comal St, San Antonio, TX 78207
- Detention armAdult Detention Bureau
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar & Command Staff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Liza Rodriguez is listed on the criminal district courts page as judge of the Criminal Law Magistrate Court. Bexar also runs a Central Magistration office that sets bond at first appearance.
County Judge
- Peter Sakai
County Courts at Law
- Helen Petry Stowe
- Melissa Saenz
- David J. Rodriguez
- Alfredo Ximenez
- Andrea N. Arevalos
- Erica Dominguez
- Melanie Lira
- Mary Roman
- Gloria Saldaña
- Cesar Garcia
- Erica Peña
- Yolanda Huff
- Alicia M. Perez
- Carlo Rodriguez Key
- Melissa Vara
Criminal District Courts
- Michael Mery
- Catherine Torres-Stahl
- Kristina Escalona
- Stephanie R. Boyd
- Benjamin Robertson
- Christine Del Prado
- Jennifer Pena
- Ron Rangel
- Frank J. Castro
- Joel Perez
- Liza Rodriguez
Civil District Courts
- Nicole Garza
- Mary Lou Alvarez
- Antonia Arteaga
- Elizabeth R. Martinez
- Norma Gonzales
- Monique Diaz
- Laura Salinas
- Marisa Flores
- Christine Vasquez Hortick
- Nadine Melissa Nieto
- Cynthia Marie Chapa
- Tina Torres
- Angelica Jimenez
- Rosie Alvarado
Juvenile District Courts
- Rose Sosa
- Jacqueline Valdés
- William "Cruz" Shaw
Justices of the Peace
- Sylvia M. Ruiz
- Roberto A. Vazquez
- Julie Bray Patterson
- Anna Campos
- 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
- roster marked no: the county publishes a Central Magistrate Search covering only people processed in the last 24 hours (https://centralmagistrate.bexar.org/) and BCSO Jail Activity Reports kept online for seven days (https://www.bexar.org/722/Jail-Activity-Reports). Neither is a list of who is in custody now.
- prea marked yes: the PREA page carries PREA annual reports for 2013 and 2017-2024 plus a 'PREA Audit: Auditor's Summary Report Adult Prisons & Jails'.
- Budget: the FY2025-26 adopted budget carries Sheriff's Office and Adult Detention Center appropriations.
- fees marked no: Access Corrections, Cash Pay Today and Access SecurePak are named but no rates are published.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
124 people have died in the Bexar 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 Bexar 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