The Detention Center
Fort Bend County Jail (also published as the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility)
- Operated byFort Bend County Sheriff's Office (Detention Bureau)
- County publishes a jail nameYes - both 'Fort Bend County Jail' and 'Fort Bend County Detention Facility' appear on the county site
- Beds1,783 beds plus a holding cell capacity of 90
- Average daily populationApproximately 727 individuals
- Commissary/mail address1410 Richmond Parkway, Richmond, TX 77469
- Detention Bureau commanderMajor Angel Rader (Detention Command)
- Houses other agencies' prisonersYes - the county states the jail houses inmates from other counties through housing contracts; no rates are published
- Beds and population, 2026-08833 people held in 1,770 rated beds
Source: Fort Bend County - About the FBCSO · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
7/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds1,783 beds plus 90 holding-cell capacity
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Eric Fagan
- TitleSheriff of Fort Bend County
- Agency sizeOver 800 employees, including 565 sworn peace officers and 25 reserve deputies
- Agency founded1837
- Also operatesGus George Law Enforcement Academy (established 2009)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Fort Bend County - Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Fort Bend is the only county in this group with a dedicated Magistrate Court. The county publishes that magistrates set bond after individualized assessment of the alleged facts, a pre-trial risk assessment, the defendant's ability to pay, and history of appearing in court. Associate judges sit in most district courts; a 505th District Court associate judge (LaTosha McGill Clayton) is listed on the site but the 505th's elected judge is not named on the district courts index page.
County Judge
- Daniel Wong
Magistrate Court
- Tony K. Duckett (presiding Magistrate Judge)
County Courts at Law
- Christopher G. Morales (No. 1)
- Tyra McCollum (No. 2)
- Juli Mathew (No. 3)
- Toni Wallace (No. 4)
- Teana Watson (No. 5)
- Dean Hrbacek (No. 6)
Judicial District Courts
- Surendran Pattel (240th)
- Steve Rogers (268th)
- Monica Rawlins (328th)
- Oscar Telfair III (387th)
- Edward M. Krenek (400th)
- J. Christian Becerra (434th)
- Maggie Perez-Jaramillo (458th)
Justices of the Peace
- Kelly Crow (Pct. 1, Pl. 1)
- Tricia Krenek (Pct. 1, Pl. 2)
- Roderick Garner (Pct. 2, Pl. 1)
- JaPaula Kemp (Pct. 2, Pl. 2)
- Sonia Rash (Pct. 3, Pl. 1)
- Kenneth S. Cannata (Pct. 3, Pl. 2)
- Keisha “K.T.” Smith (Pct. 4)
- 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
- Fort Bend is the strongest publisher in this group. It is the only county here that publishes PREA audit reports: full auditor reports for 2014, 2017, 2020 and 2023 plus an annual PREA report, all as PDFs on the PREA Compliance page. The county states it passed all four audits without corrective action (2023: 10 standards exceeded, 42 met, 0 not met).
- Published fee rates: from-home video visitation is $6.00 per visit; the Securus SecureView tablet 'Premium Media' subscription is $5.00 per month. Phone and commissary per-unit rates are not published - the site points to Securus and JPay.
- The county states the jail houses inmates from other counties through housing contracts, but publishes no contract documents or per-diem rates, so 'contracts' is marked no.
- No death-in-custody page or report was found on the county site. Site searches for 'death in custody' and 'jail inspection' returned no published record; the only inspection reference is a July 2026 press release about corrective actions following a TCOLE inspection (TCOLE regulates licensing, not jail standards).
- Bond guidance: the Detention and Bonding page explains how bonds are processed and where funds are taken, and the county's Bail Bond Board publishes a searchable list of approved bonding companies at https://www.fortbendcountytx.gov/government/departments/bail-bond-board/approved-bonding-companies
- 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. Commissioners: Vincent Morales (Pct. 1), Grady Prestage (Pct. 2), Andy Meyers (Pct. 3), Dexter McCoy (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
13 people have died in the Fort Bend County jail since 2017.
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 Fort Bend 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