The Detention Center
Gonzales County Jail
- Operated byGonzales County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — 'Gonzales County Jail' with address on the county Sheriff page
- Jail address1713 Sarah DeWitt Drive, Gonzales, TX 78629
- Jail phone(830) 672-6362
- Published jail documentsInmate Funds, Jail Visitation Rules, Jail Visitation Schedule, Local Bail Bonding Companies
- Beds and population, 2026-0880 people held in 96 rated beds
Source: Gonzales County Sheriff's Office — Jail Information · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
- ✗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; 80 held, 83% of capacity)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Keith Schmidt
- OfficeGonzales County Sheriff's Office
- Address1713 E Sarah DeWitt Dr, Gonzales, TX 78629
- Phone(830) 672-6524 (24-hour non-emergency)
- Separate siteThe office runs gonzalescountysheriff.org with a live inmate roster
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Gonzales County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county's Justice of the Peace page (gonzales.Justice) returns a 403 error, so JP names were taken from the county's own directory page, which lists only Precinct 1 and Precinct 3. The District Court page names the District Clerk and the 2nd 25th Judicial District but no district judge.
County Judge
- Patrick C. Davis
Justices of the Peace
- Deidra D. Voigt (Pct. 1)
- Cody Mikulencak (Pct. 3)
- 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
- The bond_info check is marked yes on a thin basis: the Jail Information page publishes a 'Local Bail Bonding Companies' list and directs people to call 830-672-6362 for booking and bond information. There is no published bond schedule or step-by-step posting instruction.
- The Inmate Funds document explains that commissary deposits go through JailATM and that money is no longer taken at the jail, but publishes no commissary, phone or video rates — so the fees check is no.
- The Sheriff's Office site links to TCJS but publishes no inspection result of its own.
- The county's Interlocal Agreements page lists only an FY20 legislative consulting agreement with DeWitt County — no prisoner housing contract.
- Adopted budgets are published FY2005 through FY2026.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Anton "Tony" Matias (Pct. 1), Donnie R. Brzozowski (Pct. 2), Roy Staton (Pct. 3), Collie Boatright (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Gonzales County jail since 2025.
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 Gonzales 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