The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byThis county has no jail
- County publishes a jail nameNo - the Sheriff's Office page makes no mention of a jail
- What was triedhttps://www.foardcounty.texas.gov/page/Sheriff ; https://www.foardcounty.texas.gov/page/sitemap - no jail or detention page exists
- What the state reportsThe Texas Commission on Jail Standards lists no county jail here.
Source: Foard County - Sheriff's Office · 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 Perry Shaw
- TitleFoard County Sheriff
- Mailing addressP.O. Box 309, Crowell, TX 79227
- Phone940-684-1501
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Foard County - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
One justice of the peace; no county court at law. The 46th District Court sits in Vernon (Wilbarger County).
County Judge
- Mark Christopher
46th District Court
- Cornell Curtis
Justice of the Peace
- Katy Marlow
- 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
- Foard County is the smallest county in this group (TCJS reported a countywide population of 1,079 and an average daily jail population of 0-2 in its 2026 incarceration-rate reporting).
- TCJS's 2025 Annual Jail Report lists Foard 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
- The 2025-2026 adopted budget PDF is a scan with no extractable text; no jail or boarding line item could be read. The budget is published.
- 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
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Foard 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