The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byThis county has no jail
- County publishes a jail nameNo — there is no jail to name
- No county jailGlasscock County does not appear in the TCJS Inmate Population Report of 1 August 2026, which lists every county-operated jail in Texas
- Custody lookupThe Sheriff page refers the public to VINELink, a third-party service
- What was triedhttps://www.co.glasscock.tx.us/page/sitemap ; https://www.co.glasscock.tx.us/page/glasscock.sheriff — no jail, inmate, bond or detention page exists
- What the state reportsThe Texas Commission on Jail Standards lists no county jail here.
Source: Glasscock 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 builtNo county jail
- Original costNo county jail
- Paid for byNo county jail
- BedsNone — Glasscock County operates no jail and is absent from the TCJS Inmate Population Report of 1 August 2026
Since then
- No county jail
The Sheriff
Sheriff Keith Burnett
- OfficeGlasscock County Sheriff
- Address124 S. Myrl St., Garden City, TX 79739 (P.O. Box 239)
- Phone432-354-2361
- Admin AssistantKayla Roberts
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Glasscock County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Glasscock County has a single Justice of the Peace precinct and no County Court at Law. The 118th District Court sits in Big Spring.
County Judge
- Billy Ray Reynolds
District Court (118th)
- R. Shane Seaton
Justice of the Peace
- Denice Batla
- 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
- Glasscock County is one of the Texas counties with no jail of its own; people arrested there are held elsewhere, but the county publishes no agreement saying where or at what cost.
- The 'budget' check is marked yes because the county publishes adopted and proposed budgets back to FY2014-15, which is where sheriff funding appears; there is no detention budget because there is no jail.
- Commissioners' Court agendas and minutes are hosted off-site on TownCloud.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Charles Gully (Pct. 1), Mark Halfmann (Pct. 2), Carylon Frerich (Pct. 3), John Seidenberger (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Glasscock 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