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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byCulberson County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameNo — but the Sheriff page does list a Jail Administrator (Valerie Flores) and advertises jailer vacancies, so the county acknowledges a jail without naming it
What was triedhttps://www.co.culberson.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.culberson.tx.us/page/culberson.sheriff ; https://www.co.culberson.tx.us/page/sitemap ; https://www.co.culberson.tx.us/page/PublicNotices
Beds and population, 2026-084 people held in 17 rated beds

Source: Culberson County, Texas - 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Culberson 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
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Oscar E. Carrillo

TitleCulberson County Sheriff
Chief DeputyJackie Baker
Jail AdministratorValerie Flores
Dispatch SupervisorJennifer Velez
MailingP.O. Box 159, Van Horn, TX 79855
Phone432-283-2060
Fax432-283-9002

Still needed

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

Source: Culberson County, Texas - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Four Justice of the Peace precincts, all seated in Van Horn. Culberson is served by two district courts: the 205th (chambers in El Paso) and the 394th (chambers in Alpine, covering Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Hudspeth and Presidio).

County Judge

Carlos G. Urias

Justices of the Peace

Rita Carrasco (Pct 1)
Julie Balcazar (Pct 2)
Michael Davis (Pct 3)
Roxann Cabezuela (Pct 4)

205th District Court

Francisco Dominguez

394th District Court

Monty Kimball

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

Adopted budgets are posted back to FY2011-12, plus financial audits, check registers and investment reports. Older budget PDFs (e.g. FY2018) contain jail/inmate line items; the FY2025-26 file has no text layer so it could not be text-verified.
The site's 'Agenda & Minutes' quicklink resolves to the Public Notices calendar page rather than a document archive.
The county names a Jail Administrator but publishes nothing about the facility itself — no name, address, bed count, roster, bond guidance or fee schedule.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides and serves as chief budget officer. Members: Frank Franco (Pct 1), Raul Rodriguez (Pct 2), Gilda Morales (Pct 3), Adrian Norman (Pct 4).
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

1 people have died in the Culberson County jail since 2019.

1 by suicide

0 illness or medical

1 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them0 of 1

Deaths within the first week of arriving1

Most recent death on the state's record2019-07-07

People held, 2026-084 in 17 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them100.0%

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 Culberson 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