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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byJones County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameNo. The Sheriff page is four lines of contact detail and three outbound links; the word "jail" does not appear on it.
No jail pageThere is no jail, inmate, roster, visitation, commissary or bond page in the site navigation.
What was triedhttps://www.co.jones.tx.us/page/jones.Sheriff ; https://www.co.jones.tx.us/page/jones.Commissioners.Court ; https://www.co.jones.tx.us/page/jones.Commish.Agendas.Minutes ; https://www.co.jones.tx.us/page/jones.Budgets ; full homepage navigation
Beds and population, 2026-0873 people held in 96 rated beds

Source: Jones 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Jones 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
Beds96 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 Danny Jimenez

Published as"Sheriff Danny Jimenez"
OfficeP. O. Box 821, Anson, TX 79501
Phone325-823-3201; Fax 325-823-2099
Only other contentA job application link, a VINELink link and a MissingKids link

Still needed

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

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

The Judges

The county site publishes one Justice of the Peace page and no District Court or County Court at Law page at all — only a District Clerk page (Lacey Hansen) and a District Attorney page. No district judge is named anywhere on the county site. JPs are the magistrates who set bond at first appearance in Texas.

County Judge

Dale Spurgin

Justice of the Peace

Cheryl Guernsey

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

Agendas and minutes are posted well — 2026 agendas through 24 August 2026 — and adopted budgets run back to 2013. The jail is simply absent from the website.
TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection report page; Jones 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 Roy Spalding, Precinct 2 Lonnie Vivian, Precinct 3 Danny Collett, Precinct 4 Joel Spraberry; County Judge Dale Spurgin.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

1 people have died in the Jones County jail since 2021.

0 by suicide

1 illness or medical

1 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them0 of 1

Most recent death on the state's record2021-08-03

People held, 2026-0873 in 96 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them74.0%

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 Jones 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