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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byCoryell County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff's site publishes a 'Jail Roster' and advertises jailer posts, but never names the facility
Jail phone254-865-7201
RosterReal-time jail roster at http://coryellcountysheriff.com/jail-roster/ — the FAQ states it updates in real time
What was triedhttp://coryellcountysheriff.com/ ; http://coryellcountysheriff.com/jail-roster/ ; http://coryellcountysheriff.com/information/faq/ ; https://www.coryellcounty.org/
Beds and population, 2026-08111 people held in 139 rated beds

Source: Coryell County Sheriff — Jail Roster · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✗The jail is named — not published
✓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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Coryell 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
Beds139 (TCJS inmate population report, Aug. 1, 2026)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Scott Williams

OfficeCoryell County Sheriff's Office
Address510 Leon Street, Gatesville, TX 76528
Phone254-865-7201
NoteElected May 24, 2016; took office January 1, 2017 as the 30th Sheriff of Coryell County
AnnexCoryell County Sheriff's Annex, 210 South 1st Street, Copperas Cove, TX 76522

Still needed

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

Source: Coryell County Sheriff — Sheriff Williams · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The county also lists a Child Protection Services Court, a Child Support Court and Pretrial Services under Courts and Court Services.

County Judge

Roger A. Miller

County Court at Law

John R. Lee

Justices of the Peace

John Guinn (Precinct 1)
Bill Price (Precinct 2)
Jim Caldwell (Precinct 3)
Coy Latham (Precinct 4)

District Courts

Trent D. Farrell (52nd Judicial District)
Grant Kinsey (440th Judicial District)

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

Commissioners: Kyle Matthews (Pct 1), Scott Weddle (Pct 2), Ryan Basham (Pct 3), Keith Taylor (Pct 4).
The Sheriff's Office runs its own site at coryellcountysheriff.com, linked from the county menu; the county site itself has no sheriff or jail page.
The only fee schedule published by the Sheriff is civil process fees.
Approved budgets are published for FY2014 through FY2025; open meetings notices are posted by the County Clerk.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Court sits at the Main Street Annex, 801 E. Leon Street, Gatesville.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

2 people have died in the Coryell County jail since 2017.

0 by suicide

1 illness or medical

2 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them2 of 2

Most recent death on the state's record2021-08-26

People held, 2026-08111 in 139 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them85.6%

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 Coryell 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