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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byDelta County Sheriff's Office (county page: the sheriff "Manages and operates the county jail")
County publishes a jail nameNo - the page is titled only "Jail"; no facility name is printed
Jail page contentContact block only - no capacity, bond, visitation or fee information
Inmate listingCounty links out to an inmate list hosted on the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office system
Sheriff's Office address200 W. Bonham St, Cooper, TX 75432
What was triedhttps://www.deltacountytx.com/sheriffs-office/page/jail ; https://www.deltacountytx.com/sheriffs-office ; https://www.deltacountysheriff.org/
Beds and population, 2026-080 people held in 20 rated beds

Source: Delta County, TX - Jail · 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 Delta 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 Marshall Lynch

OfficeDelta County Sheriff's Office
Address200 W. Bonham St, Cooper, TX 75432
Phone903-395-2146
Conflicting sourcedeltacountysheriff.org still lists a former sheriff, Charla Singleton; the county's own site names Marshall Lynch

Still needed

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

Source: Delta County, TX - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The county site names one Justice of the Peace and does not state a precinct number. There is no County Court at Law; the constitutional County Court is presided over by the County Judge.

County Judge

Tanner Crutcher

Justice of the Peace

Ricky Pedersen

8th Judicial District Court

Eddie Northcutt

62nd Judicial District Court

Gary D. Young

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

The 'Inmate Listing' the county links from its Sheriff's Office pages is hosted on the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office system (interopweb.com/hopkinssotx), not on a Delta County server.
The county publishes a Sheriff's Fees document (https://www.deltacountytx.com/media/3661) but that is a civil-process fee schedule, not phone, video-visit or commissary rates.
Sheriff's Office administrative operations were reported moving to 30 Texas Highway 24 as of May 1, 2026, with jail operations remaining at the existing site (Greenville Chronicle, https://www.greenvillechronicle.com/s/4855/Delta-County-Sheriff%E2%80%99s-Office-Relocating-to-New-Facility-May-1.php).
No county-specific TCJS inspection page or report could be found; TCJS publishes only a statewide non-compliant-jails list, on which Delta County does not appear.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Mike Gibson, Precinct 2 Seth Cox, Precinct 3 Anthony Roberts, Precinct 4 Mark Brantley; County Judge Tanner Crutcher. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday at 9 a.m.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

1 people have died in the Delta County jail since 2021.

0 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

Most recent death on the state's record2021-09-28

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 Delta 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