The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byThis county has no jail
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page carries no jail section, and the site menu has no jail page
- In-custody statusSheriff page refers the public to VINELink.com, not to a county roster
- TCJS listingCoke County does not appear in the TCJS inmate population report dated Aug. 1, 2026
- Budget signalThe FY2025-26 county budget carries a 'JAIL EXPENSE' line under the Sheriff, consistent with paying to hold inmates elsewhere
- What was triedhttps://www.co.coke.tx.us/page/coke.Sheriff ; https://www.co.coke.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.coke.tx.us/page/coke.Budgets ; https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/population-reports/
- What the state reportsThe Texas Commission on Jail Standards lists no county jail here.
Source: Coke 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
- BedsNot found — Coke County is not listed in the TCJS inmate population report of Aug. 1, 2026
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Billy Williams
- OfficeCoke County Sheriff
- Address13 East 7th Street (P.O. Box 9), Robert Lee, TX 76945
- Phone325-453-2717
- Emailsheriff@co.coke.tx.us
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Coke County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county site lists no County Court at Law; the County Judge presides over the constitutional county court. One Justice of the Peace is listed, for Precinct 1, seated in Bronte.
County Judge
- Hal Spain
Justices of the Peace
- Russell Johnson (Precinct 1)
District Court (51st Judicial District)
- Carmen Symes Dusek
- 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
- Commissioners' Court minutes are posted as signed PDFs on the Commissioners Court page, 2025 through 2026.
- Budget archive runs from FY2011-12 to FY2025-26, proposed and adopted.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Court meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Coke 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