The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byHopkins County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page offers "Inmate Listing", "Jail Funds" and "NCIC Inmate Communication" links but never names the facility
- Sheriff's Office / jail address298 Rosemont, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482
- Inmate listinghttp://www.interopweb.com/hopkinssotx/CurrentInmates.aspx — 206 people listed when checked, with charge, statute and bond amounts
- Inmate funds vendorjailfunds.com (no rates published)
- Inmate communication vendorNCIC / ncic.com (no rates published)
- What was triedhttps://www.hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.Sheriff ; https://www.hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.BailBondBoard ; https://www.hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.Budgets ; http://www.interopweb.com/hopkinssotx/CurrentInmates.aspx
- Beds and population, 2026-08190 people held in 240 rated beds
Source: Hopkins County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Lewis Tatum
- Published as"Sheriff Lewis Tatum" on the county Sheriff page
- Office address298 Rosemont, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482
- Office phone(903) 438-4040
- Confirmed bySheriffs' Association of Texas directory (H–K)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Hopkins County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Individual JP pages are https://www.hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.JPPrecinctI and .JPPrecinctII. The 62nd Judicial District page names Judge Gary D. Young and also carries orders of assignment naming Judge John Marshall to hear cases there from February 2025.
County Judge
- Robert Newsom
County Court at Law
- John C. Ginn
District Courts
- Eddie Northcutt (8th Judicial District)
- Gary D. Young (62nd Judicial District)
Justices of the Peace
- B. J. Teer (Pct. 1)
- Brad Cummings (Pct. 2)
- 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 county runs a jail — the Sheriff page links a live inmate listing — but nowhere on the county site is the facility given a name.
- The county has a Bail Bond Board page (https://www.hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.BailBondBoard) but it carries only meeting notices and minutes: no instructions for posting bond, no bondsman list, no fees.
- Adopted budgets are published back to 2011 at https://www.hopkinscountytx.org/page/hopkins.Budgets (PDFs hosted on newtools.cira.state.tx.us).
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Wesley Miller, Precinct 2 Greg Anglin, Precinct 3 Travis Thompson, Precinct 4 Joe Price; County Judge Robert Newsom. 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
3 people have died in the Hopkins County jail since 2017.
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 Hopkins 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