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

The Detention Center

South Jail; North Jail; Marvin A. Smith Facility

Operated byGregg County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes — the Sheriff page names three detention facilities and publishes visitation hours for each
Facilities namedSouth Jail, North Jail, Marvin A. Smith Facility
Jail phone903-236-1755
Jail addressSheriff's Office: 101 E. Methvin, Suite 559, Longview, TX 75601
What was triedhttps://greggcounty.texas.gov/government/public-safety/sheriff ; http://www.greggcountytxsheriff.org/ (parked domain, no content) — no roster, bond, commissary or rate page found
Beds and population, 2026-08683 people held in 916 rated beds

Source: Gregg County — Sheriff · 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Gregg 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
Beds916 rated capacity (TCJS Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026; 718 held, 78.4% of capacity)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Maxey Cerliano

OfficeGregg County Sheriff's Office
Address101 E. Methvin, Suite 559, Longview, TX 75601
Phone903-236-8400
Jail questions903-236-1755
ContactCraig Harrington — Craig.Harrington@co.gregg.tx.us

Still needed

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

Source: Gregg County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Each of the four precinct pages carries that precinct's Justice of the Peace and Commissioner. No bond schedule or magistrate information is published on any bench page.

County Judge

Bill Stoudt

County Courts at Law

Angie Konczak (No. 1)
Vincent Dulweber (No. 2)

District Courts

Alfonso Charles (124th)
Scott Novy (188th)
Tim Womack (307th)

Justices of the Peace

B. H. Jameson (Pct. 1)
Tim Bryan (Pct. 2)
Bruce Dalme (Pct. 3)
Robby Cox (Pct. 4)

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

Gregg County runs the largest jail system in this group — 916 rated beds across three named facilities — and publishes no bed count, no daily population, no roster and no rate schedule of any kind on its own site.
The Sheriff's Office website that the county links to and that the Sheriffs' Association of Texas lists, http://www.greggcountytxsheriff.org/, is now a parked domain: it serves a 114-byte redirect to a /lander page that returns no content. The county's public safety page still points visitors there.
Adopted budgets are published back to fiscal year 2000, and the FY27 proposed budget is posted; the county holds a Platinum Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle designation. No separate sheriff or detention budget page exists.
Commissioners Court agendas, minutes and videos are each published on their own page.
Gregg 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. Ronnie L McKinney (Pct. 1), Ray Bostick, Jr. (Pct. 2), Floyd Wingo (Pct. 3), Danny Craig II (Pct. 4).
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

4 people have died in the Gregg County jail since 2018.

2 by suicide

1 illness or medical

4 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them4 of 4

Deaths within the first week of arriving2

Most recent death on the state's record2023-12-12

People held, 2026-08683 in 916 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them62.2%

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 Gregg 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