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

The Detention Center

Johnson County Corrections Center

Operated byJohnson County Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
County publishes a jail nameYes — three different ones. The PREA page and PREA audit say "Johnson County Corrections Center"; the jail page says "Johnson County Corrections Facility"; the mail instructions say "Johnson County Jail, TX"; the county records page is headed "Johnson County LEC Inmate Search".
Address1800 Ridgemar Drive, Cleburne, TX 76031
Phone817-556-6000
Designed capacity1,101 (2025 PREA audit)
Population at audit889 current; 924 average daily over the prior 12 months; not over capacity in that period
Staff276 staff with inmate contact; 124 volunteers; 0 contractors (2025 PREA audit)
MailDigitised through TextBehind: PO Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131
VisitationDaily 6:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m., scheduled at least 24 hours ahead
What was triedhttps://jocotxsheriff.com/jail/ ; https://jocotxsheriff.com/corrections-division/ ; https://jocotxsheriff.com/prea/ ; https://jocotxsheriff.com/faqs/ ; https://www.johnsoncountytx.org/services/online-county-records/jail-inmate-search ; https://jcportal.johnsoncountytx.org/jail
Beds and population, 2026-08933 people held in 1,100 rated beds

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

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✓Beds and daily population
✓What it costs taxpayers
✗Deaths in custody — not published
✓PREA audits
✗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 Johnson 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
Beds1,101 designed capacity (2025 PREA Facility Audit Report); 1,100 rated capacity per TCJS Inmate Population Report, August 2026

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Adam King

Where the name appearsNeither johnsoncountytx.org nor the Sheriff's Office home page names the sheriff. The name is published in the 2025 PREA Facility Audit Report linked from the Sheriff's Office PREA page, under "Warden/Jail Administrator/Sheriff/Director: Adam King, aking@johnsoncountytx.org".
Chief DeputyJames Saulter (supervises Internal Affairs)
Jail primary contactBryan Gordy
PREA Compliance ManagerSidney Wilson
PhonesAdmin (817) 556-6058; Dispatch (817) 556-6045 / 6060

Still needed

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

Source: Johnson County Sheriff's Office — 2025 PREA Facility Audit Report (final) · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The three district courts sit at the Guinn Justice Center, 204 S Buffalo Ave, Cleburne. Each JP and each court has its own page beneath the pages cited. JPs are the magistrates who set bond at first appearance in Texas.

County Judge

Christopher Boedeker

County Courts at Law

John Neill (No. 1)
F. Steven McClure (No. 2)

District Courts

Sydney B. Hewlett (18th)
Tiffany Strother (249th)
William Bosworth (413th)

Justices of the Peace

DeeAnn Strother (Pct. 1)
Jeff Monk (Pct. 2)
Andrew Nolan (Pct. 3)
Robert Shaw (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

PREA is the strongest disclosure of any county in this group: full final PREA Facility Audit Reports for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, each linked from https://jocotxsheriff.com/prea/ and hosted on the county's PowerDMS public portal.
Capacity is marked yes because the published 2025 PREA audit states designed capacity (1,101), current population (889) and 12-month average daily population (924). It is not a standing dashboard — the figures sit inside an audit PDF.
Roster is marked no: https://jcportal.johnsoncountytx.org/jail is a name-search form that requires a full last name and at least one letter of the first name. It does not list who is in custody. The Sheriff's FAQ nonetheless calls it "the Inmate Roster".
Inspections is marked no: the PREA audit is an independent audit of PREA compliance only, not a general jail inspection. No TCJS inspection report is published by the county.
The Sheriff's Office also publishes a Racial Profiling / complaint policy set and abandoned-property notices through PowerDMS.
TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection report page; Johnson 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 Rick Bailey, Precinct 2 Kenny Howell, Precinct 3 Mike White, Precinct 4 Larry Woolley; County Judge Christopher Boedeker.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

9 people have died in the Johnson County jail since 2020.

2 by suicide

6 illness or medical

9 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them7 of 9

Deaths within the first week of arriving7

Most recent death on the state's record2024-10-30

People held, 2026-08933 in 1,100 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them62.4%

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 Johnson 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