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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byCass County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameNo — the county names the complex "Cass County Law Enforcement & Justice Center" (604 Hwy 8N, Linden) but publishes no name for the jail inside it
Inmate lookupSouthern Software booking search, linked from the sheriff's page
Inmate mailThe sheriff's page links a "New Mail Policy" PDF (scanned image, text not extractable)
What was triedhttps://www.co.cass.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.cass.tx.us/page/cass.Sheriff ; https://www.co.cass.tx.us/page/cass.Budgets ; https://www.co.cass.tx.us/page/cass.PublicNotices
Beds and population, 2026-0877 people held in 96 rated beds

Source: Cass County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✗The jail is named — not published
✓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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Cass 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
Beds96 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards county jail population report, 1 August 2026)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Larry Rowe

TitleCass County Sheriff
Physical address604 Hwy 8N, Linden, Texas 75563
Mailing addressP.O. Box 180, Linden, Texas 75563
Phone903-756-7511
Fax903-756-5434

Still needed

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

Source: Cass County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace page (603B S. Louise St., Atlanta) lists an address, hours and a court clerk but does not name the sitting judge. That is the county's own omission, not a gap in searching.

County Judge

Travis Ransom

County Court at Law

Gary J. Albertson II

District Court

Bill Miller — 5th Judicial District

Justices of the Peace

Terri Price — Precinct 1
Gina Bassham — Precinct 2
Kim Cullins — Precinct 3
Precinct 4 — no judge named on the county page

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

The Budgets page publishes both adoption orders and full proposed and adopted budgets (FY2018 through FY2027).
The inmate lookup is a third-party Southern Software portal but is linked directly from the county's own sheriff page, so it is scored as a county-published roster.
The sheriff's page carries no bond guidance, no commissary or phone rates, and no capacity figures.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Brett Fitts (Pct. 1), Kevin Young (Pct. 2), Doug Lance (Pct. 3), Darrell Godwin (Pct. 4).
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

2 people have died in the Cass 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 arriving1

Most recent death on the state's record2022-05-29

People held, 2026-0877 in 96 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them74.0%

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 Cass 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