The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byHansford County Sheriff's Office — the county names a Jail Administrator but never names the facility
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page names a Jail Administrator but gives the jail no name, address or phone number
- Jail administratorMisty Garrett
- Jail addressNot found on the county site
- Jail phoneNot found on the county site
- Custody lookup offeredThe Sheriff page directs the public to VINELink.com, a statewide third-party service, rather than a county roster
- What was triedhttps://www.co.hansford.tx.us/ ; /page/hansford.Sheriff ; /page/hansford.Commissioners.Court ; /page/hansford.Justice ; /page/hansford.County.Court ; /page/hansford.Budgets
- Beds and population, 2026-082 people held in 9 rated beds
Source: Hansford 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; 2 held, 22.2% of capacity)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Robert Mahaffee
- OfficeHansford County Sheriff
- Address10 Northwest Court, Spearman, Texas 79081
- Phone806-659-4140
- Fax806-659-2025
- Emailsheriff@co.hansford.tx.us
- Jail administratorMisty Garrett — mgarrett@hansfordcountytx.com
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Hansford County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Hansford County has one Justice of the Peace for the whole county. The site carries a "County Court at Law" menu entry, but that page is empty — the county has no County Court at Law. The 84th District Court is shared with Hutchinson and Ochiltree Counties and its coordinator sits in Stinnett. No bond information is published on any bench page.
County Judge
- Tim Glass
District Court (84th)
- Curtis W. Brancheau
Justice of the Peace
- Dee Mayfield
- 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 →
Notes on the record
- Hansford runs a 9-bed jail holding two people on 1 August 2026 — the emptiest jail in this group at 22 per cent of capacity.
- The county employs a named Jail Administrator but publishes no jail name, address or telephone number anywhere on its site.
- Budgets are published from 2018-2019 through the 2025-2026 proposed budget; separate Proposed Budgets, Tax Rate, Treasurer Reports and Utility Reports pages sit under a Financial Transparency menu.
- The Commissioners Court page names the court's members but publishes no agendas or minutes; the county posts meeting notices under Public Notices instead.
- Hansford 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. Ira G. "Butch" Reed (Pct. 1), Robert Whitaker (Pct. 2), Tim Stedje (Pct. 3), Wylee Maupin (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Hansford County jail appears on the state's record since 2016.
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 Hansford 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