The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byCamp County Sheriff's Office (the county publishes no jail page identifying an operator)
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the sheriff's page carries no jail name, address, roster, bond, visitation or commissary information
- Sheriff's office address203 Tapp Street, Pittsburg, Texas 75686
- What the sheriff's page offers insteadLinks out to VINELink.com and MissingKids.com only
- What was triedhttps://www.co.camp.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.camp.tx.us/page/camp.Sheriff ; https://www.co.camp.tx.us/page/camp.Budgets ; https://www.co.camp.tx.us/page/camp.AGENDAS
- Beds and population, 2026-0841 people held in 52 rated beds
Source: Camp 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
- Beds52 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards county jail population report, 1 August 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff John Cortelyou
- TitleCamp County Sheriff
- Address203 Tapp Street, Pittsburg, Texas 75686
- Phone903-856-6651
- Fax903-856-3681
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Camp County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Camp County has a single countywide Justice of the Peace. It has no County Court at Law; the constitutional County Judge hears county-level cases.
County Judge
- A J Mason
Justice of the Peace
- Richard Penn
District Courts
- Angela Saucier — 76th District
- Michael Kopech — 276th District
- 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 Budgets page publishes full county budget documents back to 2022 (2027 Proposed, 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022); the sheriff and jail appropriations sit inside those documents rather than in a separate jail budget.
- The county names an elected sheriff but publishes nothing at all about the jail it operates. TCJS reports a 52-bed rated capacity for Camp County, so a jail exists.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Jed Hefner (Pct. 1), Tommy Rozell (Pct. 2), Perry Weeks (Pct. 3), Steve Lindley (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Camp 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 Camp 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