The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byBlanco County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff's page carries a mission statement and a VINELink pointer and never mentions the jail
- A jail does existTCJS lists a 56-bed Blanco County jail and issued a notice of non-compliance naming 'BLANCO COUNTY JAIL' on 3 June 2026
- What was triedhttps://www.blancocountytexas.gov/page/Sheriff , https://www.blancocountytexas.gov/page/FinancialTransperency , https://www.blancocountytexas.gov/ , https://www.co.blanco.tx.us/page/blanco.Sheriff (redirects)
- Beds and population, 2026-0832 people held in 56 rated beds
Source: Blanco County Sheriff · 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
- Beds56 rated capacity (TCJS population report, 1 Aug 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Don Jackson
- OfficeBlanco County Sheriff's Office
- Address400 US Hwy 281 South, Johnson City, TX 78636
- Phone830-868-7104
- Fax830-868-4577
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Blanco County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county's Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace page publishes an address, phone and jury notices but no judge's name, so only the Precinct 4 Place 1 judge could be recorded. The County Judge also sits as the county's intermediate court between the JP courts and the district courts.
County Judge
- Brett Bray
District Courts (33rd and 424th)
- J. Allan Garrett
- Evan Stubbs
Justices of the Peace
- Joe Hernandez
- 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: Tommy Weir (Pct 1), Emil Ray Uecker (Pct 2), Chris Liesmann (Pct 3), Charles Riley (Pct 4).
- Budget: the FY2025-26 approved budget carries jail payroll lines (Sgt Jail, Lt Jail, Jailers 1-5) and a Jail Commissary Fund.
- Blanco is the only county in this group currently on the TCJS non-compliant list; the June 2026 notice cites Standard 263.56, weekly and monthly testing of emergency power equipment.
- The county courthouse is closed for renovation and several offices have moved to temporary addresses.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Blanco County jail appears on the state's record 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 Blanco 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