The Detention Center
Brewster County Jail
- Operated byBrewster County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes - 'Brewster County Jail' named on the Sheriff's Office page
- Jail address307 W. Sul Ross Ave, Alpine, TX 79830
- Jail phone432-837-6200 ext. 5541
- What was triedChecked https://www.brewstercounty.gov/page/sitemap and the sheriff page; the county has no jail sub-page, no roster, no bond page and no fee schedule
- Beds and population, 2026-0826 people held in 56 rated beds
Source: Brewster County - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 Inmate Population Report, 1 Aug 2026; 26 in custody, including 13 federal inmates)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ronny Dodson
- TitleBrewster County Sheriff
- Office201 West Ave E, Alpine, TX 79830
- Phone432-837-6200 ext. 5541
- Jail administratorJose Gutierrez, Administrator - Brewster County Jail
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Brewster County - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Brewster County has no county court at law; the County Judge hears misdemeanor, probate and juvenile matters. The 394th District also covers Culberson, Jeff Davis, Hudspeth and Presidio Counties.
County Judge
- Greg P. Henington
District Court (394th Judicial District)
- Monty Kimball
Justices of the Peace
- J. Scott Wassermann (Pct. 1)
- Paul Rashott (Pct. 2)
- Susana Gonzales (Pct. 3)
- 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 county site names the jail and its administrator but publishes nothing else about it - no roster, capacity, bond guidance, fees, PREA, inspections or deaths.
- TCJS reports 13 male federal inmates held on 1 Aug 2026; no federal or agency contract or per-diem rate is published by the county.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Regular meetings 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Brewster 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 Brewster 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