The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byCrane County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page names no facility and there is no jail page
- Sheriff page contentContact details plus outbound links to VINELink and MissingKids only
- What was triedhttps://www.co.crane.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.crane.tx.us/page/crane.Sheriff ; https://www.co.crane.tx.us/page/crane.Public.Notices.Calendar
- Beds and population, 2026-0825 people held in 92 rated beds
Source: Crane County, Texas - 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
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Andrew Aguilar
- TitleCrane County Sheriff
- Chief DeputyChris Villegas
- OfficeCrane County Courthouse, 201 W 6th St, Crane, TX 79731
- MailingP.O. Box 1175, Crane, TX 79731
- Phone432-558-3571
- Fax432-558-3743
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Crane County, Texas - County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
County Judge
- Roy Hodges
Justice of the Peace
- Twilah Ward
109th District Court
- John L. Pool
- 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 →
Notes on the record
- Crane County posts approved and proposed county budgets back to FY2011 on its Budgets page, and a check register; no separate jail or detention budget document is published.
- No agendas or minutes are posted. The Commissioners Court page carries only Rules of Procedure documents and a meeting-time statement; a Public Notices calendar page exists at https://www.co.crane.tx.us/page/crane.Public.Notices.Calendar
- The Sheriff's page directs the public to VINELink (a third-party state service) rather than publishing a custody roster.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Court meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. Members: Manuella Kirkpatrick (Pct 1), Dennis Young (Pct 2), Domingo Escobedo (Pct 3), Danny Castro (Pct 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Crane County jail since 2021.
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 Crane 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