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

The Detention Center

Hunt County Detention Center

Operated byHunt County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes — "Hunt County Detention Center" on the Detention Center page; the booking application is headed "Hunt County Jail Inmate Search"
Address2801 Stuart St, Greenville, TX 75401
Detention Center phone(903) 453-6851; visitation scheduling (903) 453-6850
VisitationWednesday, Friday and Sunday; slots booked by phone on Tuesday and Thursday, 8:00 AM–4:00 PM
Inmate searchhttps://apps.huntcounty.net/jail/ — current inmates, or a date range of people in custody during that period
What was triedhttps://www.huntcounty.net/page/sheriff ; https://www.huntcounty.net/page/detention ; https://apps.huntcounty.net/jail/ ; https://www.huntcounty.net/page/bailbondboard ; https://www.huntcounty.net/page/budget
Beds and population, 2026-08319 people held in 345 rated beds

Source: Hunt County — Detention Center · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Hunt 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
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Terry Jones

Published as"Terry Jones — Sheriff" on the Sheriff's Office page
Chief DeputyBuddy Oxford (named as the Sheriff's designee on the Bail Bond Board)
Address2801 Stuart St., Greenville, TX 75401
Phone(903) 453-6800 (fax 903-461-7793)
Jail information line(903) 453-6849

Still needed

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

Source: Hunt County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Judge Rankin (JP Pct. 4) publishes a "Policy for Attending Judge Rankin's Magistration" on the Justice of the Peace page — the clearest published sign of which bench magistrates arrestees. The Bail Bond Board is chaired by 196th District Judge J. Andrew Bench and includes Sheriff Terry Jones or Chief Deputy Buddy Oxford as his designee. County Court at Law 2 is https://www.huntcounty.net/page/CCAL2.

County Judge

Bobby W. Stovall

County Courts at Law

Timothy S. Linden (County Court at Law 1)
Joel D. Littlefield (County Court at Law 2)

District Courts

Andrew Bench (196th Judicial District)
Keli Aiken (354th Judicial District)

Justices of the Peace

Wayne Money (Pct. 1 Place 1)
Sheila Linden (Pct. 1 Place 2)
Kerry Crews (Pct. 2)
Christie Roundtree (Pct. 3)
Clayton Rankin (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

Hunt County is the strongest publisher in this group on names and rosters and one of the weakest on money and conditions: a live inmate search and a named Detention Center, but no bed count, no daily population, no inspection result, no death report and no phone, video or commissary rates.
The Detention Center page is two accordions — an address and a visitation phone script. Nothing about the building itself.
The Bail Bond Board page (https://www.huntcounty.net/page/bailbondboard) explains how to complain about a bondsman and lists board members, but does not explain how to post a bond; a separate licensed-companies page exists at https://www.huntcounty.net/page/bailbondcompanies.
Adopted and proposed budgets are published back to FY2021-22 alongside signed county audits.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Daren Money, Precinct 2 David Monroe, Precinct 3 Garry Smith, Precinct 4 Steven M. Harrison; County Judge Bobby W. Stovall.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

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

2 by suicide

2 illness or medical

6 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them5 of 6

Deaths within the first week of arriving3

Most recent death on the state's record2024-06-29

People held, 2026-08319 in 345 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them79.0%

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 Hunt 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?

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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