The Detention Center
Grayson County Jail
- Operated byGrayson County Sheriff's Office — Detention Bureau
- County publishes a jail nameYes — "Grayson County Jail" appears on the Sheriff's Office and Inmate Telephone pages
- Operating unitDetention Bureau
- Jail address100 W. Houston, Sherman, Texas 75090
- Jail phone(903) 813-4200
- Sheriff's Office addressGrayson County Justice Center, 200 S. Crockett, Sherman, Texas 75090
- Inmate phone vendorCorrect Solutions Group (csgpay.com, facility code 24102) — no rates published
- Video visitation vendorjailatm.com — page states there is a fee but publishes no amount
- Beds and population, 2026-08378 people held in 407 rated beds
Source: Grayson County — Sheriff's Office Detention Bureau · 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
- Beds407 rated capacity (TCJS Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026; 388 held, 95.3% of capacity)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Tony Bennie
- OfficeGrayson County Sheriff's Office
- Address200 S Crockett St, Sherman, TX 75090
- Phone(903) 893-4388
- Named on county siteNo — the Sheriff's Office page carries no sheriff's name; the name comes from the Sheriffs' Association of Texas directory
- Jail administratorCaptain Samantha Burt
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Sheriffs' Association of Texas — Directory D-G · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county Courts page lists only court coordinators for County Courts at Law 1 and 2 and for the 15th, 59th and 397th District Courts — no judge is named. The four Justice of the Peace pages each name their own judge. JP Pct. 3 states the office hears magistrate matters; JP Pct. 1 publishes a bail agreement form.
County Judge
- Bruce Dawsey
County Courts at Law (Nos. 1 and 2)
- Not published on the county site
District Courts (15th, 59th, 397th)
- Not published on the county site
Justices of the Peace
- Ginny Hampton (Pct. 1)
- Dennis Michael (Pct. 2)
- Damon Vannoy (Pct. 3)
- Christina Fox (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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Detention Bureau page publishes staff contacts, an address and a phone number but no bed count, no daily population and no inmate roster.
- The commissary page lists what may be bought and how to deposit money but publishes no prices and no deposit fees; the inmate telephone page names Correct Solutions Group but publishes no call rates; the visitation page states there is a video visit fee without giving the amount.
- The county runs a Bail Bond Board and publishes its agendas at https://www.co.grayson.tx.us/page/BailBondBoard.home, but that is a licensing body — the county publishes no guidance on how to post bond for someone in the jail.
- The Sheriff's Office page links to VINE Link (vinelink.com), a statewide third-party notification service, rather than publishing a county custody roster.
- Adopted and proposed budgets are published from FY2011 through the FY2027 proposed budget filed 18 August 2026; there is no separate detention budget page.
- Commissioners Court agendas, minutes and recordings from 15 June 2021 forward are on AgendaSuite; minutes back to 1930 are searchable at https://grayson.tx.publicsearch.us/.
- Grayson County does not appear on the Texas Commission on Jail Standards non-compliant jails list checked 22 August 2026 (https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/non-compliant-jails/).
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. The Commissioners Court page links to the four precinct commissioners by precinct but names none of them.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
11 people have died in the Grayson 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 Grayson 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