The Detention Center
Brazoria County Detention Center
- Operated byBrazoria County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — 'Brazoria County Detention Center' has its own section of the county site
- Address3602 County Road 45, Angleton, TX 77515
- Phone(979) 864-2336
- Vendors namedNCIC Inmate Communications (phone), Access Corrections and Cash Pay Today (deposits), Securus Video Connect (video visits) — no rates published
- Beds and population, 2026-08947 people held in 1,170 rated beds
Source: Brazoria County Detention Center · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
- Beds1,170 rated capacity (TCJS population report, 1 Aug 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bo Stallman
- OfficeBrazoria County Sheriff's Office
- Sworn in1 January 2021
- Detention Center address3602 County Road 45, Angleton, TX 77515
- Detention Center phone(979) 864-2336
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Brazoria County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county publishes its eight Justices of the Peace by surname only — Precincts 1 to 4, two places each — so no first names could be recorded from the county's own site. District courts are the 149th, 239th, 300th, 412th and 461st; Greg Donnell sits as associate judge in the 461st.
County Judge
- L.M. "Matt" Sebesta, Jr.
County Courts at Law
- Courtney Gilbert
- Thomas Pfeiffer
- Jeremy Warren
- Lori Rickert
District Courts
- Jessica Pulcher
- Greg Hill
- Chad D. Bradshaw
- Justin R. Gilbert
- Patrick Bulanek
Justices of the Peace
- Judge Brown
- Judge Rape
- Judge Vasut
- Judge Davis
- Judge Merkel
- Judge Castillo
- Judge Linder
- Judge Kersh
- 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: Jay Burridge (Pct 1), Ryan Cade (Pct 2), Stacy Adams (Pct 3), David Linder (Pct 4).
- Budget: annual budgets for 2016-2026 are linked from the county's Financial Transparency budget-download page; the 2026 and 2025 books are hosted on OneDrive and 2023 and earlier on ShareFile, and the PDFs could not be retrieved for line-item verification because the county's edge server blocks direct download.
- The Detention Center section has sub-pages for inmate records search, visitation, inmate mail, inmate accounts and attorney phone information — but none for bonds, PREA, deaths in custody, inspections or contracts.
- fees marked no: NCIC, Access Corrections, Cash Pay Today and Securus Video Connect are all named but no rate is published.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
14 people have died in the Brazoria County jail since 2017.
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 Brazoria 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