Goliad County, Texas — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Goliad County Jail

Operated byGoliad County Sheriff's Office (Jail Administrator Gary Diaz)
County publishes a jail nameYes — 'Goliad County Jail' on both the county Sheriff page and the Sheriff's Office site
Jail address700 E. End St., Goliad, TX 77963 (Sheriff's Office address)
Jail phone361-645-3451 (non-emergency)
Inmate work detailMinimum-security inmates work outside the jail on a supervised work crew doing landscaping, trash pickup and small construction for the precincts and non-profits
Beds and population, 2026-0812 people held in 48 rated beds

Source: Goliad County Sheriff's Office — Goliad County Jail · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

✓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
✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
✗How to post bond — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Goliad County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-22. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds48 rated capacity (TCJS Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026; 12 held, 25% of capacity, including 4 contract inmates)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Roy Boyd

OfficeGoliad County Sheriff's Office
Address700 E. End St., Goliad, TX 77963
Phone361-645-1262 (non-emergency 361-645-3451)
Separate siteThe office also runs goliadcountyso.org

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Goliad County — Sheriff Roy Boyd · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The county site has no District Court page and no County Court at Law, so no district judge is recorded from a county source.

County Judge

R. Mike Bennett

Justices of the Peace

Herman Roe (Pct. 1)
Jimmy Schulze (Pct. 2)

Still needed

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

Goliad is the only county in this group that posts its own state inspection result: the Sheriff page's Quicklinks carry a '2025 Certificate of Compliance for Goliad County Jail'.
The Sheriff's Office site names the jail staff and the Jail Administrator but publishes no roster, bond instructions, commissary rates or phone rates.
Adopted budgets are published back to 2018, with a five-year summary FY2021-2025.
A 'Rates and Info' PDF on the county home page was checked and is the trash transfer station rate sheet, not jail fees.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Kenneth Edwards (Pct. 1), David Young (Pct. 2), Kirby Brumby (Pct. 3), Kevin Fagg (Pct. 4). Court meets the second and fourth Monday at 5:00 PM.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

1 people have died in the Goliad County jail since 2016.

0 by suicide

1 illness or medical

1 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them0 of 1

Most recent death on the state's record2016-08-25

People held, 2026-0812 in 48 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them83.3%

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 Goliad 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