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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byNot stated on the county site; the county directory lists a 'JAIL' phone entry at the Sheriff's Office address
County publishes a jail nameNo - the county site has no jail page and never names the facility
Only jail reference on the county siteA 'JAIL' line in the County Directory: 254-883-3566 / 254-803-1000, 2847 Hwy 6, Marlin, TX 76661
What was triedhttps://www.co.falls.tx.us/page/Sheriff ; https://www.co.falls.tx.us/page/sitemap ; https://www.co.falls.tx.us/page/contact - the sitemap lists no jail or detention page
Beds and population, 2026-0868 people held in 107 rated beds

Source: Falls County - County Directory · 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 Falls 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 Jason Campbell

TitleFalls County Sheriff
Office address2847 State Highway 6, Marlin, TX 76661
Phone254-883-1431

Still needed

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

Source: Falls County - County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Falls County has no county court at law; the district judge is named only in the county directory, not on a court page.

County Judge

Jay T. Elliott

District Judge (82nd Judicial District)

Bryan Russ, Jr.

Justices of the Peace

Kaylah Rosas (Pct. 1)
Debra Trotter (Pct. 2)
Preble Polk (Pct. 3)
Madison Elliott (Pct. 4)

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

Falls County publishes nothing about its jail on its own website - no page, no name, no roster, no capacity, no fees, no bond guidance.
The FY2025-2026 approved budget is published as a 124-page scanned PDF with no extractable text, so the jail line item could not be read; the budget itself is published.
TCJS's 2025 Annual Jail Report states that a remedial order against Falls County issued in 2024 remained in effect at the end of 2025. Source: https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2025AJR.pdf
Falls County was not on the TCJS non-compliant jails list as of 2026-08-22.
Audit rules applied uniformly across this group: capacity=yes only if a bed count is published on a county site; fees=yes only if an actual dollar rate for phone, video visit or commissary is published; bond_info=yes only if the county publishes practical guidance for posting bond or an official approved bail-bond company list.
TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection page or report on its public website; only statewide reports and a non-compliant-jails list. This county was not on the non-compliant list checked 2026-08-22.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

1 people have died in the Falls County jail since 2024.

0 by suicide

1 illness or medical

1 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them1 of 1

Most recent death on the state's record2024-01-08

People held, 2026-0868 in 107 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them73.5%

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 Falls 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