The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byCrosby 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, MissingKids and Code Amber only
- What was triedhttps://www.co.crosby.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.crosby.tx.us/page/crosby.Sheriff ; https://www.co.crosby.tx.us/page/crosby.Budgets ; https://www.co.crosby.tx.us/page/crosby.Public.Notices
- Beds and population, 2026-088 people held in 11 rated beds
Source: Crosby County, Texas - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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 Corey Nunley
- TitleCrosby County Sheriff
- OfficeCrosby County Courthouse, 201 W Aspen St, Crosbyton, TX 79322
- Phone806-675-7301
- Fax806-675-2804
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Crosby County, Texas - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county site lists a County Court at Law page (https://www.co.crosby.tx.us/page/crosby.County.Court) but names no judge on it.
County Judge
- Rusty Forbes
Justice of the Peace
- Irma Casias
72nd District Court
- John Grace
- 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
- Crosby County's Budgets page (https://www.co.crosby.tx.us/page/crosby.Budgets) and Proposed Budgets page carry no documents at all — no county budget of any year is posted. That is the weakest financial-transparency result in this group.
- The county does post individual notices (tax rate hearing, abatement notices) on its Public Notices page, but no agendas or minutes.
- The Sheriff's page directs the public to VINELink rather than publishing a custody roster.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Members: Larry McCauley (Pct 1), Frank Mullins (Pct 2), Donald Kirksey (Pct 3), Kevin Langdon (Pct 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Crosby 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 Crosby 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