The Detention Center
Coleman County Law Enforcement Center
- Operated byColeman County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — 'Coleman County Law Enforcement Center' on the Sheriff page
- Jail address965 North U.S. 283, Coleman, TX 76834
- Jail phone325-625-3506
- In-custody listOnline Inmate Custody List hosted by NetData at https://netweb.netdatacorp.net/NDLEC/bok/cgibokcole.html
- Visitationhttps://www.colemancounty.gov/page/sheriff.jailvisitation
- Beds and population, 2026-0832 people held in 57 rated beds
Source: Coleman County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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 — 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
- Beds57 (TCJS inmate population report, Aug. 1, 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Les Cogdill
- OfficeColeman County Sheriff's Office
- Address965 North U.S. 283, Coleman, TX 76834
- Phone325-625-3506
- Fax325-625-3509
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Coleman County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county publishes a Magistrates page, but it lists the magistrate offices — Coleman County Constitutional Court judge, Coleman County Justice Court judge, and the City of Coleman municipal judge — without naming them. It states the Justice of the Peace is the primary magistrate and the County Judge secondary.
County Judge
- Billy D. Bledsoe
Justices of the Peace
- Karen Langley (countywide)
District Court (42nd Judicial District)
- Arimy Beasley
- 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 only fee schedule published is 'Sheriff's and Constables' Fees 2026' — civil process fees, not phone, video visit or commissary rates.
- The county's old domain co.coleman.tx.us now redirects to colemancounty.gov.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. The County Clerk sits as ex-officio clerk of the court.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Coleman 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 Coleman 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