The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byCastro County Sheriff's Office (no jail page published)
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the sheriff's page gives an address and phone but no jail name, roster, bond, visitation or commissary information
- Sheriff's office address900 E. Bedford Street, Dimmitt, Texas 79027
- What the sheriff's page offers insteadLinks out to VINELink.com and MissingKids.com only
- What was triedhttps://www.co.castro.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.castro.tx.us/page/castro.Sheriff ; https://www.co.castro.tx.us/page/castro.Budgets ; https://www.co.castro.tx.us/page/castro.agendas ; https://www.co.castro.tx.us/page/castro.minutes
- Beds and population, 2026-0815 people held in 67 rated beds
Source: Castro County — 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
- Beds67 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards county jail population report, 1 August 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Salvador Rivera
- TitleCastro County Sheriff
- Address900 E. Bedford Street, Dimmitt, Texas 79027
- Phone806-647-3311
- Published linksEmergency Assistance; How to Make a Report; Procedures for Compliments or Complaints
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Castro County — County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Castro County has one countywide Justice of the Peace and no County Court at Law. Both district judges sit in Plainview and share the 64th/242nd districts under revised local rules the county publishes.
County Judge
- Mandy Gfeller
Justice of the Peace
- Mary Ewing
District Courts
- Kregg Hukill — 242nd District
- Danah Zirpoli — 64th 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
- Castro County is one of the better small-county publishers on process: it posts Commissioners Court agendas, minutes and adopted rules of procedure, plus the FY 25-26 approved budget and FY 26-27 proposed budget. None of that extends to the jail.
- TCJS reports a 67-bed rated capacity at 22.4 percent occupancy on 1 August 2026 — among the emptiest jails in this group.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Paul Ramirez (Pct. 1), Tim Elliott (Pct. 2), Michael Goolsby (Pct. 3), Ralph Brockman (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Castro County jail since 2020.
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 Castro 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