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

The Detention Center

Hood County Jail

Operated byHood County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes — "Hood County Jail" on the Sheriff's Office Jail page
Address400 Deputy Larry Miller Dr, Granbury, TX 76048
Beds192 beds (published on the Jail page)
StaffJailers licensed by TCOLE, plus clerical and medical staff
Inmate communication vendorViaPath (formerly GTL / GettingOut) — no rates published
CommissaryOrders distributed Wednesdays; funds by lobby kiosk, online or phone; no prices published
What was triedhttps://sheriff.hoodcounty.texas.gov/divisions/jail/index.php ; https://sheriff.hoodcounty.texas.gov/divisions/jail/commissary.php ; https://sheriff.hoodcounty.texas.gov/divisions/jail/gtl_phone_services.php ; https://sheriff.hoodcounty.texas.gov/divisions/jail/view_bonds.php ; https://webapps.hoodcounty.texas.gov/bond/
Beds and population, 2026-08135 people held in 192 rated beds

Source: Hood County Sheriff — Jail · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✓Beds and daily population
✓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
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Hood 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
Beds192

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Roger Deeds

Published as"Sheriff Roger Deeds" on the Sheriff's Office site
In office sinceJanuary 1, 2009 (per his own page)
Jail AdministratorCaptain Eric Turbeville, appointed May 2019
Office phone817-579-3316
Jail phone817-579-3333 (24 hours)
Budget he citesapproximately $10 million (Sheriff's own biography page)

Still needed

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

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

The Judges

Each JP has its own page under https://hoodcounty.texas.gov/courts/justices_of_the_peace/precinct_one|two|three|four/index.php. The Sheriff's Office also publishes an Arraignments page at https://sheriff.hoodcounty.texas.gov/divisions/jail/arraignments.php. In Texas the JPs are normally the magistrates who set bond at first appearance.

County Judge

Ron Massingill

County Court at Law

Richard L. Hattox

District Court

Bryan Bufkin (355th Judicial District)

Justices of the Peace

Laura "Sissy" Freeman (Pct. 1)
Jeff Kelley (Pct. 2)
Stephen Barnett (Pct. 3)
Earl "Dub" Gillum (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

Capacity is a bed count only (192). Daily population is not published by the county.
The "View Bonds" page leads to https://webapps.hoodcounty.texas.gov/bond/, which lists name, race, sex and booking date only — it is a booking history, not a current in-custody roster with charges or bond amounts, so roster is marked no.
Bond guidance is thin: the page says only that bonds must be posted by a Hood County bondsman and that this can be done 24 hours a day. No fee schedule and no list of bondsmen.
ViaPath/GTL is named as the phone and tablet vendor but no call or video-visit rate is published; the commissary page publishes no prices.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Kevin Andrews, Precinct 2 Nannette Samuelson, Precinct 3 Jack Wilson, Precinct 4 Dave Eagle; County Judge Ron Massingill. Court meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 9:00 AM.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

6 people have died in the Hood County jail since 2016.

1 by suicide

2 illness or medical

6 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them4 of 6

Deaths within the first week of arriving1

Most recent death on the state's record2025-04-28

People held, 2026-08135 in 192 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them66.7%

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 Hood 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