The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byNot stated on the county site. Frio County reports a county jail to TCJS; the county publishes no jail page and names no operator.
- County publishes a jail nameNo
- Jail addressNot found on the county site
- Jail phoneNot found on the county site
- What was triedhttps://www.co.frio.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.frio.tx.us/page/co.sheriff ; https://www.co.frio.tx.us/page/sitemap (no jail, inmate, roster or commissary page)
- Beds and population, 2026-0878 people held in 96 rated beds
Source: Frio County — Sheriff · 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
- Beds96 rated capacity (TCJS Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026; 78 held, 81% of capacity, including 9 contract inmates)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Peter Salinas
- OfficeFrio County Sheriff's Office
- Address502 South Cedar Street, Pearsall, TX 78061
- Phone830-505-7153
- Custody lookupSite refers the public to VINELink, a third-party service
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Frio County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The JP page publishes a scanned 'Standing Order regarding Release on Bail' (https://www.co.frio.tx.us/upload/page/0071/Standing%20Order%20Regarding%20Release%20on%20Bail.pdf). It is a magistrate order, not public guidance on how to post bond, so the bond_info check is recorded as 'no'.
County Judge
- Rochelle Lozano Camacho
District Courts (81st)
- Jennifer M. Dillingham
District Courts (218th)
- Russel Wilson
Justices of the Peace
- Shanna J. Gates (Pct. 1)
- Sandra Waldrum (Pct. 2)
- Susan Ruiz-Belding (Pct. 3)
- Jack Proctor Jr. (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 →
Notes on the record
- Frio County holds contract inmates for other in-state agencies (9 on 1 August 2026 per TCJS) but publishes no contract or per-diem rate on its own site.
- Adopted and proposed budgets are published FY2012 through FY2027; no standalone jail budget page.
- Commissioners Court agendas appear on the county home page; the 'Minutes & Agendas' link on the Commissioners Court page points to a 2024 video page, so no stable minutes URL is recorded.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Joe Vela (Pct. 1), Mario Martinez (Pct. 2), Raul Carrizales (Pct. 3), Danny Cano (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Frio County jail appears on the state's record 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 Frio 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