The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byEastland County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo - the page is titled "Jail Information" and refers only to "the jail"
- VisitationMon 1-5 pm; Tue 8-10 am and 2-4 pm; Thu 1-7 pm; two 20-minute visits per week
- Vendors namedNCIC Correctional Services for inmate phone; LoneStar Commissary for commissary - no rates given
- Jail address201 W White, Eastland, TX 76448
- Jail phone254-629-1774
- Beds and population, 2026-0866 people held in 97 rated beds
Source: Eastland County, TX - Jail Information · 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 Jason Weger
- OfficeEastland County Sheriff's Office
- Address201 West White, Eastland, TX 76448
- Phone254-629-1774
- Chief DeputyJon Simcik
- Jail dutyCounty page: the Sheriff's Department is responsible for "Maintenance and operation of the county jail"
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Eastland County, TX - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The Justices of the Peace page describes JP magistrate duties, including setting bail after an arrest, but does not name the judges; the names come from the county's own JP staff directory. No County Court at Law is listed.
County Judge
- David Hullum
Justices of the Peace
- Jon Glenn (Precinct 1)
- Jesse Speer (Precinct 2)
91st Judicial District Court
- Steven R. Herod
- 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 Jail Information page says "Everything you want to know about the jail, and who is in it, is available in our mobile app" - there is no web roster, so the roster check is recorded as no.
- The county publishes a Sheriff's Schedule of Fees (https://www.eastlandcounty.gov/1242/Schedule-of-Fees) effective 1 January 2026, but those are civil-process fees (including "Taking Bond $10"), not phone, video-visit or commissary rates.
- A Bail Bond Application Packet (PDF) is published, but it is a licensing packet for bonding companies, not guidance for the public on posting a bond.
- eastlandcountytexas.com now redirects; eastlandcounty.gov is the live official site.
- No county-specific TCJS inspection page or report could be found.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides: Andy Maxwell, James Crenshaw, Ronnie Wilson and Robert Rains, with County Judge David Hullum. The county page names them in a photo caption without stating precincts.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
2 people have died in the Eastland County jail 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 Eastland 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