The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byThis county has no jail
- County publishes a jail nameNo. The Sheriff page has no jail, inmate, visitation, commissary or bond section — only contact details and links to VINELink and MissingKids.
- No TCJS jail entryJeff Davis County has no row in the Texas Commission on Jail Standards Inmate Population Report (August 2026), which lists every county jail facility in Texas.
- What was triedhttps://www.jeffdaviscounty.texas.gov/page/jeffdavis.Sheriff ; https://www.jeffdaviscounty.texas.gov/page/jeffdavis.Commissioners.Court ; https://www.jeffdaviscounty.texas.gov/page/jeffdavis.County.Judge ; https://www.jeffdaviscounty.texas.gov/page/jeffdavis.Public.Notices ; https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/population-reports/
- What the state reportsThe Texas Commission on Jail Standards lists no county jail here.
Source: Jeff Davis County — County Sheriff · 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
- BedsNot found — no Jeff Davis County facility appears in the TCJS Inmate Population Report (August 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Victor Lopez
- Published as"Sheriff Victor Lopez"
- Office105 Court Avenue / P.O. Box 1061, Fort Davis, TX 79734
- Phone432-426-3213; Fax 432-426-3937
- Sheriff's ClerkLauri Lindquist
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Jeff Davis County — County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
One countywide justice of the peace. The county has a County Court page (https://www.jeffdaviscounty.texas.gov/page/jeffdavis.County.Court) but it publishes only dockets and names no judge; the constitutional county court is presided over by the County Judge. JPs are the magistrates who set bond at first appearance in Texas.
County Judge
- Curtis Evans
District Court
- Monty Kimball (394th Judicial District)
Justice of the Peace
- Mary Ann Luedecke (countywide)
- 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 only minutes posted on the Commissioners Court page run January–June 2023; there is no separate agendas/minutes page.
- A Commissioners Court meeting calendar for 2025–26 is posted as a PDF: https://www.jeffdaviscounty.texas.gov/upload/page/6560/Commissioners Court Calender 2025-26.pdf
- The county posts a district-court standing order on release on bail, but that is a court order, not guidance on how to post bond.
- TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection report page; Jeff Davis 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 Jody Adams, Precinct 2 Roy Hurley, Precinct 3 John Davis, Precinct 4 listed as vacant; County Judge Curtis Evans.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Jeff Davis 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