The Detention Center
Garza County Jail
- Operated byGarza County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — 'Garza County Jail' with its own phone, fax and email on the Sheriff's Office page
- Jail addressGarza County Law Enforcement Center, 412 East 15th Street, Post, TX 79356
- Jail phone806-990-9974 (jail); fax 806-990-9980; garza.jail@co.garza.tx.us
- Money linksPages link out to commissary and inmate phone deposit portals, but publish no rates
- Beds and population, 2026-0887 people held in 96 rated beds
Source: Garza County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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; 87 held, 91% of capacity, including 46 contract inmates)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Michael Isbell
- OfficeGarza County Sheriff's Office
- AddressGarza County Law Enforcement Center, 412 East 15th Street, Post, TX 79356
- Phone806-495-3595 / 806-990-9959
- Jail AdministratorValente Perez; Jail Lieutenant Warren Fox
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Garza County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Garza County has two Justice of the Peace precincts and no County Court at Law. The 106th District Court serves Garza, Lynn, Gaines and Dawson counties.
County Judge
- Lee Norman
District Court (106th)
- Reed Filley
Justices of the Peace
- Gordon Terry (Pct. 1)
- Angela Massey (Pct. 2)
- 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
- Garza County's official site is www.garzacounty.gov (www.garzacounty.net redirects to it). The similarly named garzacounty.org is a private tourism blog, not county government.
- Nearly half the people in the Garza County Jail on 1 August 2026 were contract inmates held for other in-state agencies (46 of 87), yet no housing contract or per-diem rate is published on the county site.
- Commissioners' Court agendas and minutes are published in full back to 2019.
- The county also hosts a 'Support Dalby Prison' page for the privately operated Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Post, which is a separate facility from the county jail.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Jeff Williams (Pct. 1), Kim Wilks (Pct. 2), Lane Jones (Pct. 3), Giles W. Dalby Jr. (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
3 people have died in the Garza County jail since 2018.
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 Garza 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