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

The Detention Center

Jasper County Jail

Operated byJasper County Sheriff's Office (Jail Division)
County publishes a jail nameYes — but only inside a PDF. The Sheriff web page says only "Jail: (409) 384-2411". The county-hosted policy 17.00 Inmate Visiting Privileges reads "...while incarcerated in the Jasper County Jail."
Jail address101 Burch Street, Jasper, TX 75951 (Sheriff's Office mailing address)
VisitationSaturday and Sunday 2:00–7:00 p.m.; two 20-minute visits per week; visits scheduled by phone during the week
Inmate moneyMoney order or cashier's check payable to "Inmate Trust Fund – (Inmate's Name)"; no cash. No rates published.
What was triedhttps://www.co.jasper.tx.us/page/Sheriff ; http://www.co.jasper.tx.us/upload/page/0110/docs/visiting%20plan-1-9-23.pdf ; http://www.co.jasper.tx.us/upload/page/0110/NCIC%20Correspondence%20Plan.pdf ; https://www.co.jasper.tx.us/page/sitemap (no jail, inmate, bond or detention page exists)
Beds and population, 2026-08126 people held in 147 rated beds

Source: Jasper County — Jail Visitation Guidelines (PDF) · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Jasper 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
Beds147 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards Inmate Population Report, August 2026 — a state source, not the county's)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Chuck Havard

Published as"Sheriff Chuck Havard" on the county Sheriff page
Chief DeputyLarry Pulliam Jr.
MajorSteve Crowell
Jail AdministratorJoe Pomponio
Office101 Burch Street, Jasper, TX 75951
Main phone(409) 384-5417; Admin (409) 383-1154
Jail phone(409) 384-2411

Still needed

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

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

The Judges

Jasper County has six justice of the peace precincts, all listed on one page. JPs are the magistrates who set bond at first appearance in Texas. The 1A District Judge has a separate page: https://www.co.jasper.tx.us/page/DistrictCourt.1A. The county site publishes no County Court at Law page.

County Judge

Mark Allen

District Courts

Craig Mixson (1st Judicial District)
Delinda Gibbs-Walker (1A Judicial District)

Justices of the Peace

John Cooper (Pct. 1)
Raymond Hopson (Pct. 2)
Mike Smith (Pct. 3)
Gina Cleveland (Pct. 4)
Brett Holloway (Pct. 5)
Steve Conner (Pct. 6)

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

The county Sheriff page carries a staff list, game-room rules and administration text but no jail page, no roster, no bond page and no fee schedule.
jasperso.com, which turns up in searches for "Jasper SO inmate roster", is Jasper County, MISSISSIPPI (601 area code, 29 West 8th Ave). It is not this county and was not used.
TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection report page; Jasper County does not appear on the TCJS Non-Compliant Jails list as of this check.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Seth Martindale, Precinct 2 Kevin Holloway, Precinct 3 Willie Stark, Precinct 4 Dennis Marks; County Judge Mark Allen.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

2 people have died in the Jasper County jail since 2018.

0 by suicide

0 illness or medical

2 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them1 of 2

Deaths within the first week of arriving2

Most recent death on the state's record2019-03-21

People held, 2026-08126 in 147 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them85.7%

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 Jasper 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