The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byNot stated on the county site. Hall County reports a 9-bed jail to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, a sheriff-run facility by default under Texas law, but the Sheriff's page says nothing about it.
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page gives office contacts only and no jail details
- Jail addressNot found on the county site
- Jail phoneNot found on the county site
- What was triedhttps://www.co.hall.tx.us/ ; /page/hall.Sheriff ; /page/hall.Commissioners ; /page/hall.JP ; /page/hall.Budgets — no jail, inmate, bond or commissary page exists
- Beds and population, 2026-081 people held in 9 rated beds
Source: Hall 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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds9 rated capacity (TCJS Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026; 4 held, 44.4% of capacity)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Tom Heck
- OfficeHall County Sheriff's Office
- Address101 South 9th Street, Memphis, Texas 79245
- Business office806-259-2151
- 24-hour dispatch806-259-2636 / 806-259-2637
- Emailhallso@co.hall.tx.us
- NoteThe Sheriffs' Association of Texas directory lists him as "Thomas Heck" at 512 Main St Ste 7
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Hall County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Hall County has no County Court at Law. One Justice of the Peace, Sherrie Stone, covers Precincts 1, 2 and 3 together; Teresa Heck covers Precinct 4 from Turkey. The 100th District Court is shared with Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and Donley Counties and sits on the third floor of the Hall County Courthouse. No bond information is published on any bench page.
County Judge
- Ray Powell
District Court (100th)
- Dale A. Rabe, Jr.
Justices of the Peace
- Sherrie Stone (Pcts. 1, 2 and 3)
- Teresa Heck (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
- Hall County operates one of the smallest jails in Texas — 9 rated beds, 4 people held on 1 August 2026 — and publishes nothing about it. The Sheriff's page is a contact card.
- Adopted and preliminary budgets are published from fiscal 2017-2018 through the preliminary 2026-2027 budget.
- Commissioners Court agendas and minutes are posted as PDFs on the Commissioners' Court page, going back to 2020.
- The county's Financial Transparency and Budget menu entries return HTTP 403; only the Budgets page itself resolves.
- Hall 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. Ronny Wilson (Pct. 1), Terry Lindsey (Pct. 2), Gary Proffitt (Pct. 3), Troy Glover (Pct. 4). The court meets the 2nd Monday of each month at 10:00 a.m. in the Courthouse Annex.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Hall County jail since 2022.
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 Hall 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