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

The Detention Center

Collin County Detention Facility

Operated byCollin County Sheriff's Office — Detention Bureau
County publishes a jail nameYes — 'Collin County Detention Facility' on the Detention Bureau page
Jail address4300 Community Ave., McKinney, TX 75071
Jail phone(972) 547-5200
Supervision modelDirect supervision; officers remain inside housing units
HistoricThe Old Collin County Prison, completed 1880, is described on the Sheriff's About page as one of Texas' oldest 19th-century county jails
Beds and population, 2026-081,203 people held in 1,488 rated beds

Source: Collin County — Bureaus: Detention Bureau · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓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
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Collin 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
Beds1,488 (TCJS inmate population report, Aug. 1, 2026)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Jim Skinner

OfficeCollin County Sheriff's Office
Address4300 Community Ave., McKinney, TX 75071
Phone(972) 547-5100; Detention Facility (972) 547-5200
NoteJail is run by the Sheriff's Detention Bureau, divided into Inmate Housing, Services and Compliance

Still needed

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

Source: Collin County — About: The Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The county's Justices of the Peace page does not name the four JPs; the names come from the county's own County Officials directory. Collin runs a separate Magistrate Court that advises defendants, determines probable cause and sets bail.

County Judge

Chris Hill

County Courts at Law

Corinne Mason (County Court at Law 1)
Barnett Walker (County Court at Law 2)
Lance S. Baxter (County Court at Law 3)
David Rippel (County Court at Law 4)
Randy Johnson (County Court at Law 5)
Jay A. Bender (County Court at Law 6)
David Waddill (County Court at Law 7)
Sarah Duff (Probate Court 1)

District Courts

Angela Tucker (199th)
Jennifer Edgeworth (219th)
John Roach, Jr. (296th)
Tom Nowak (366th)
Benjamin N. Smith (380th)
Kim Laseter (401st)
Andrea Thompson (416th)
Cynthia Wheless (417th)
Jill Renfro Willis (429th)
Lindsey Wynne (468th)
Piper McCraw (469th)
Brook Fulks (470th)
Bryan Gantt (471st)
Christine A. Nowak (493rd)
Kathryn L. Pruitt (494th)

Justices of the Peace

Paul Raleeh (Precinct 1)
Ellen Kinnebrew (Precinct 2)
Mike Missildine (Precinct 3)
Vincent J. Venegoni (Precinct 4)

Magistrate Court

Lisa Bronchetti

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

Collin publishes a PREA facility audit report, but it is for the juvenile probation detention centre, not the county jail: https://www.collincountytx.gov/docs/default-source/juvenile-probation/documents/prea-audit-final-report-2025.pdf
The Open Government page publishes a five-year line-item budget spreadsheet and a searchable Commissioners Court agenda archive back to 2005: https://www.collincountytx.gov/Government/Open-Government
Visitation and phone pages describe rules and vendors (Access Securepak for commissary) but publish no rates.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

17 people have died in the Collin County jail since 2016.

4 by suicide

7 illness or medical

17 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them17 of 17

Deaths within the first week of arriving10

Most recent death on the state's record2025-09-21

People held, 2026-081,203 in 1,488 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them80.2%

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 Collin 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