The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byThis county has no jail
- County publishes a jail nameNo current jail page or facility name; the only naming is in 2014 bond-election documents referring to the 'Fisher County Jail Facility'
- Sheriff page textCarries the generic Texas Association of Counties duty line 'Manages and operates the county jail'
- 2014 bond proposalA Law Enforcement Center including a county jail facility, sheriff's office and other law enforcement offices
- What was triedhttps://www.fishercounty.org/page/fisher.Sheriff ; https://www.fishercounty.org/page/fisher.LawEnforcementCenter ; https://www.fishercounty.org/page/fisher.Contact
- Beds and population, 2026-080 people held in 24 rated beds
- What the state reportsThe Texas Commission on Jail Standards lists no county jail here.
Source: Fisher County - Law Enforcement Center · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✗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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found for the old jail; the county's 2014 bond presentation says the facility had been the subject of TCJS findings dating back to 1982
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byProposed 2014 funding was up to $6,745,000 in county general obligation bonds repaid by ad valorem taxes, put to a county bond election
- BedsThe 2014 proposal was for a 24-bed facility master-planned to 48 beds; no current bed count is published
Since then
- No completed expansion found. TCJS's 2025 Annual Jail Report lists Fisher County among counties with closed jails.
The Sheriff
Sheriff John Patrick “Pat” Dickson
- TitleSheriff of Fisher County
- In office sinceDecember 31, 2024 (appointed to fill a vacancy)
- Term shown2025-2028
- Office addressPO Box 370, 207 E N 1st, Roby, TX 79543
- Phone325-776-2273
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Fisher County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
One countywide justice of the peace; no county court at law. The 32nd District Court sits in Sweetwater (Nolan County).
County Judge
- Ken Holt
32nd District Court
- Glen Harrison
Justice of the Peace
- Angie Pippin
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
- Fisher County's own site publishes an unusually candid 2014 jail bond-election record: proposition language, the order calling the election, public notices in English and Spanish, and a Law Enforcement Center presentation with floor, site and elevation plans. Proposition No. 1 asked for up to $6,745,000 in GO bonds over 20 years for a Law Enforcement Center including a county jail, backed by ad valorem taxes.
- The bond presentation states TCJS had reduced the existing facility's capacity because of unsafe conditions and that a 24-bed minimum facility was recommended by a Citizens' Jail Advisory Committee.
- TCJS's 2025 Annual Jail Report lists Fisher among 22 counties with closed jails that board their inmates in an adjacent county. Source: https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2025AJR.pdf
- bond_info is marked yes on the strength of the sheriff's published 'List of Approved Bonding Companies' (dated 5-16-23); the county publishes no narrative guidance on how to post bond.
- The FY2026-2027 proposed budget is a scanned PDF with no extractable text, so no jail or sheriff line item could be read.
- 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. Court meets the 2nd Monday of each month.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Fisher 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