Burnet County, Texas — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Burnet County Jail

Operated byBurnet County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes - 'Burnet County Jail' has its own county page
Jail phone512-715-8600
Stated roleCounty says the jail is TCJS-certified, is an over-72-hour ICE holding facility and a U.S. Marshals holding facility
Stated sizeCounty page says the jail 'houses 587 offenders'
Beds and population, 2026-08340 people held in 587 rated beds

Source: Burnet County - County Jail · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓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
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Burnet County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-22. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds587 - the county's own page says the jail 'houses 587 offenders', which matches the TCJS rated capacity of 587 (1 Aug 2026; 340 in custody)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Calvin Boyd

TitleBurnet County Sheriff
TermBegan 1 January 2025, expires 31 December 2028
Sheriff's office sitehttps://www.burnetsheriff.com/
Jail phone512-715-8600

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Burnet County - Elected Officials · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The Elected Officials page still lists the County Judge as 'TBA'; the current County Judge, Bryan Wilson, is named on the County Judge page itself. The county also publishes a separate Magistrate page.

County Judge

Bryan Wilson

County Court at Law

Cody Henson

District Courts

Allan Garrett (33rd)
Evan Clay Stubbs (424th)

Justices of the Peace

Roxanne Nelson (Pct. 1)
Lisa Whitehead (Pct. 2)
Jane Marie Hurst (Pct. 3)
Frank Reilly (Pct. 4)

Still needed

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

Capacity marked no: the county publishes the bed count but not the daily population.
The inmate search link on the county jail page is the county's Tyler Odyssey public-access portal, with the login 'visitor / visitor' printed on the page.
Bond: the jail FAQ explains bond processing and how to find a bondsman, and the county runs a Bail Bond Board page (https://www.burnetcountytexas.org/1367/Bail-Bond-Board) with its own agendas and minutes.
The county says the jail holds ICE and U.S. Marshals detainees (TCJS recorded 66 federal inmates and 135 in-state contract inmates on 1 Aug 2026) but publishes no contract or per-diem rate.
The sheriff's commissary page says only that 'a fee is assessed for each deposit' - no dollar amounts for commissary, phone or video visits.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

2 people have died in the Burnet County jail since 2021.

0 by suicide

2 illness or medical

2 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them2 of 2

Deaths within the first week of arriving2

Most recent death on the state's record2023-06-20

People held, 2026-08340 in 587 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them56.8%

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 Burnet 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