The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byNot found on the county site. TCJS lists the Haskell County jail facility as privately operated.
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page says only that the Sheriff "operates and manages the county jail"; no facility name, address, phone, roster, visitation or commissary information appears anywhere on the county site
- State recordThe Texas Commission on Jail Standards population report of 1 August 2026 lists the county as "Haskell (P)" with a capacity of 562 — the (P) marks a privately operated facility, and 562 beds in a county of roughly 5,600 people indicates a contract facility holding other agencies' prisoners
- County budget has no jail departmentThe FY2024-2025 adopted budget contains a "0560 COUNTY SHERIFF" department (total $1,048,890.90) but no jail or detention department line
- What was triedhttps://www.haskellcountytx.gov/page/haskell.Sheriff ; https://www.haskellcountytx.gov/page/haskell.County.News ; https://www.haskellcountytx.gov/page/haskell.Public.Notices ; https://www.haskellcountytx.gov/page/haskell.Commissioners.Court ; https://www.haskellcountytx.gov/page/haskell.Budgets ; the site search at /page/search.results returns 403
- Beds and population, 2026-08404 people held in 562 rated beds
Source: TCJS — County Jail Population report, 1 August 2026 · 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
- Beds562 rated capacity — TCJS population report, 1 August 2026, listed as "Haskell (P)" (privately operated); the county publishes no bed count
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Conrad Saucedo, III
- Published as"Sheriff Conrad Saucedo, III"
- Phone940-864-2345
- Emailconrad.saucedo@haskellcountytx.gov
- Courthouse1 Ave D, Haskell, TX 79521
- NoteA county Courthouse Phone Numbers PDF still lists a former sheriff, Winston Stephens, at the same number
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Haskell County — County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Haskell County has no County Court at Law. The county's Courthouse Phone Numbers PDF still lists a former Justice of the Peace, Lynn Dodson, alongside Doy Jeter; the current Justice page names only Judge Doy Jeter, with Linda Abila as Court Clerk.
County Judge
- Kenny Thompson
District Court
- Shane Hadaway (39th Judicial District)
Justice of the Peace
- Doy Jeter
- 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 most opaque county in this group. Haskell County's own website publishes no jail name, no address, no roster, no visitation rules, no commissary or phone rates, and no jail budget department — yet TCJS credits the county with 562 jail beds, roughly one bed for every ten residents, in a privately operated facility.
- Budget check: the county publishes only one budget, the 2024-2025 Adopted Budget (https://www.haskellcountytx.gov/upload/page/7689/2024-2025%20Budget.pdf). It contains a County Sheriff department but no jail department, which is itself consistent with a jail the county does not directly operate. Scored 'budget' yes on the sheriff's department budget.
- The Commissioners' Court page posts 2026 agendas but no minutes.
- Haskell County is not on the TCJS non-compliant jails list as of August 2026.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. The Commissioners' Court page names no members; a county Courthouse Phone Numbers PDF (https://www.haskellcountytx.gov/upload/page/7687/Courthouse%20Phone%20Numbers%20and%20Emails.pdf) lists Prec. 1 Billy Wayne Hester, Prec. 2 Elmer Adams, Prec. 3 Matt Sanders, Prec. 4 Neal Kreger — but the same PDF is out of date on the Sheriff and the Justice of the Peace, so these names are unconfirmed.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Haskell County jail since 2021.
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 Haskell 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