The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byJim Hogg County Sheriff Department
- County publishes a jail nameNo. The Sheriff page refers only to "operation of the jail, including the safekeeping of inmates and operation of the jail commissary" in a generic duties paragraph.
- No jail pageThere is no jail, inmate, roster, visitation, commissary or bond page anywhere in the site navigation.
- What was triedhttps://www.co.jim-hogg.tx.us/page/jim-hogg.Sheriff ; https://www.co.jim-hogg.tx.us/page/jim-hogg.Commissioners ; https://www.co.jim-hogg.tx.us/page/jim-hogg.Public.Notice ; https://www.co.jim-hogg.tx.us/page/jim-hogg.Budget ; full homepage navigation
- Beds and population, 2026-0841 people held in 64 rated beds
Source: Jim Hogg 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
- Beds64 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 Erasmo Alarcon Jr.
- Published as"Erasmo Alarcon Jr., Sheriff"
- OfficeJim Hogg County Sheriff Department, 211 E Galbraith St., Hebbronville, TX 78361
- Phone(361) 527-4140
- Emailsheriff@co.jim-hogg.tx.us
- Bond authorityCounty page states that in a county without a Bail Bond Board the Sheriff sets bail bond policy
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Jim Hogg County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Four JPs, all at the Jim Hogg County Justice Court, 133 East David Street, Hebbronville, sharing one phone number. The county page spells Precinct 1's surname "Siguero" in the heading and "Silguero" in the email address; the heading spelling is recorded here. The 229th District Court is shared with Starr and Duval Counties and is administered from Rio Grande City. JPs are the magistrates who set bond at first appearance in Texas.
County Judge
- Juan Carlos Guerra
Constitutional County Court
- Juan Carlos Guerra
District Court
- Baldemar Garza (229th Judicial District)
Justices of the Peace
- Alma Siguero (Pct. 1)
- Susan H Douglas (Pct. 2)
- Marissa M. Garza (Pct. 3)
- Aaron Salazar (Pct. 4)
- 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 →
Notes on the record
- No Commissioners Court agendas or minutes were found on the county site; the Public Notices page carries bid notices, tax notices and grant notices only.
- Adopted and proposed budgets are posted back to 2018-2019, e.g. https://www.co.jim-hogg.tx.us/upload/page/9532/2024/2025-2026 Adopted Budget he.pdf
- An audited financial statement for FY ended 9/30/2024 is posted under Public Notices.
- TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection report page; Jim Hogg 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 Antonio (Tony) Flores III, Precinct 2 Abelardo Alaniz, Precinct 3 Sandalio Ruiz, Precinct 4 Cynthia Guerra Betancourt; County Judge Juan Carlos Guerra.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Jim Hogg County jail since 2022.
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 Jim Hogg 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