The Detention Center
Carrizales-Rucker Cameron County Detention Center
- Operated byCameron County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — "Cameron County Jail" on the Jail Division page and "Carrizales-Rucker" on the sheriff's contact page
- Main detention centerCarrizales-Rucker, 7100 Old Alice Road, Olmito, TX 78575 — (956) 554-6701
- Other listed facilitiesOld County Jail, 954 E. Harrison, Brownsville — (956) 544-0865; Detention Center 1 and 2, 1145 E. Harrison, Brownsville
- Jail Division mailingCO Inmate Trust Fund, P.O. Box 1539, Olmito, TX 78575
- Communications vendorNCIC Inmate Communications
- Beds and population, 2026-081,493 people held in 1,746 rated beds
Source: Cameron County Sheriff — Jail Division · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓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
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds1,746 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards county jail population report, 1 August 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Manuel "Manny" Treviño
- TitleCameron County Sheriff
- Published emailmanuel.trevino@co.cameron.tx.us
- Jail administratorAndre Delgado
- NotePredecessor Eric Garza is listed by news outlets as a former sheriff; the county's own contact page names Treviño as of the research date
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Cameron County Sheriff's Office — Contact Information · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Cameron County runs a dedicated Magistrate Court physically located inside the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center; that is where first appearances and bond setting take place. A judge for County Court at Law No. 4 was not listed on the county's Courts at Law page on the research date.
County Judge
- Eddie Treviño, Jr.
Magistrate Court (arraignment and bond at Carrizales-Rucker)
- Leonardo Rincones Jr.
- Gabriela Martinez
County Courts at Law
- Arturo A. McDonald, Jr. — Court at Law No. 1
- Laura L. Betancourt — Court at Law No. 2
- David Gonzales III — Court at Law No. 3
- Estela Chavez-Vasquez — Court at Law No. 5
District Courts
- Janet L. Leal — 103rd
- Benjamin Euresti Jr. — 107th
- Gabriela Garcia — 138th
- Adolfo E. Cordova Jr. — 197th
- Juan A. Magallanes — 357th
- Ricardo M. Adobbati — 404th
- David Sanchez — 444th
- Gloria Rincones — 445th
- Adela Kowalski-Garza — 484th
Justices of the Peace
- Benito "Bo" Ochoa IV — Pct. 1
- Linda Salazar — Pct. 2-1
- Cyndi M. Hinojosa — Pct. 2-2
- Mary Esther Sorola — Pct. 2-3
- Jesus T. "Chuy" Garcia, Jr. — Pct. 3-1
- David Garza — Pct. 3-2
- Juan Mendoza Jr. — Pct. 4
- Charles "Chuck" Vieh — Pct. 5-1
- Eloy Cano Jr. — Pct. 5-2
- Alejandro "Alex" Torres — Pct. 5-3
- 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
- Roster carries the county's own disclaimer that it is not comprehensive: it covers people booked within the last seven days and excludes federal prisoners.
- Fees published on the Jail Division page: video visits $0.30 per minute, messages $0.25 each, picture and video messages $0.35 each, via NCIC; per-minute call rates are also given in a table on that page.
- The county publishes line-item detail budgets, not just summaries, so sheriff and jail appropriations are traceable.
- The Bail Bond Board page (https://www.cameroncountytx.gov/bail-bonds/) licenses bondsmen and lists licensed bail bond companies, but does not give step-by-step guidance on how to post bond — scored 'no' on that basis.
- The Certificate of Compliance PDF is a scanned image; its text could not be extracted, but it is titled and published by the county as the compliance certificate for the Cameron County Jail.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Sofia C. Benavides (Pct. 1), Joey Lopez (Pct. 2), David A. Garza (Pct. 3), Gus Ruiz (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
13 people have died in the Cameron 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 Cameron 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