The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byCollingsworth County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page names a Jail Administrator but never names the facility
- In-custody statusSheriff page refers the public to VINELink.com; no county roster
- Beds17 (TCJS inmate population report, Aug. 1, 2026)
- What was triedhttps://www.co.collingsworth.tx.us/page/collingsworth.Sheriff ; https://www.co.collingsworth.tx.us/page/collingsworth.Home ; https://www.co.collingsworth.tx.us/page/collingsworth.Commissioners.Court
- Beds and population, 2026-088 people held in 17 rated beds
Source: Collingsworth 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
- Beds17 (TCJS inmate population report, Aug. 1, 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kent Riley
- OfficeCollingsworth County Sheriff
- AddressWellington, TX 79095
- Phone806-447-2588
- Jail AdministratorKrystle Tarver
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Collingsworth County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county menu carries a 'County Court at Law' page, but it is blank — no judge is named on it.
County Judge
- Scot Martindale
Justices of the Peace
- James C. Waller (countywide)
District Court (100th Judicial District)
- Dale A. Rabe, Jr.
- 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 linked by year (2023, 2024, 2025) from the Commissioners Court page.
- Commissioners: Keith Martin (Pct 1), James Ellis (Pct 2), Joel Sherwood (Pct 3), Richard Johnson (Pct 4).
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Court meets the second Monday each month; agendas posted 72 hours ahead.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Collingsworth County jail appears on the state's record since 2016.
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 Collingsworth 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