The Detention Center
Kaufman County Detention Center
- Operated byKaufman County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — and more than one. The Jail Info page calls it the "Kaufman County Sheriff's Office – Detention Facility"; the commissary link names "Kaufman County Detention Center"; the roster site is headed "Kaufman County Jail"; the Sheriff page menu item is "Detention Center".
- Address1900 E US-175, Kaufman, TX 75142; jail phone (972) 932-4337
- Rosterhttps://inmates.kaufmanso.com/ — "View all inmates" lists everyone in custody
- MedicalTurn Key Health (https://www.kaufmanso.com/jail-info/medical-department/)
- Federal prisonersThe published visitation schedule sets aside separate slots for "Federal Males/USMS" and "Federal Females/USMS"; no contract or per-diem rate is published
- Phone ratesNCIC Inmate Communications: $0.21 per minute domestic, $0.50 per minute international, no connection fee
- Messaging rates$0.25 per message; $0.35 per picture/document (NCIC)
- VisitationTwo 25-minute in-person visits per week, by pod and by sex; children under 17 on designated days only
- What was triedhttps://www.kaufmanso.com/jail-info/ ; .../visitation/ ; .../commissary/ ; .../inmate-services/ ; .../administration/ ; https://inmates.kaufmanso.com/ ; https://www.kaufmancounty.net/488/Inmate-Lookup
- Beds and population, 2026-08426 people held in 531 rated beds
Source: Kaufman County Sheriff's Office — Jail Info · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds531 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards Inmate Population Report, August 2026 — a state source; the county publishes no bed count)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bryan W. Beavers
- Published as"Sheriff Bryan W. Beavers" in the Sheriff's Office site header
- Office1900 E US-175, Kaufman, TX 75142 (mailing Drawer 849, Kaufman, TX)
- PhonesMain and Jail (972) 932-4337; Communications (469) 376-4500; Dispatch (469) 376-4598
- NoteThe county's own page at kaufmancounty.net/260/Sheriff carries the Sheriff's Office site content but does not name the sheriff; the name appears on the Sheriff's Office Contact page.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kaufman County Sheriff's Office — Contact Us · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Kaufman County created a third district court, the 489th Judicial District Court, effective 1 September 2023; its page (https://www.kaufmancounty.net/598/489th-District-Court) is still the announcement press release and names no judge, so no name is recorded for that bench. The JP pages state that JPs perform magistrate duties. JPs are the magistrates who set bond at first appearance in Texas.
County Judge
- Jakie Allen
County Courts at Law
- Joseph Russell (County Court at Law)
- Bobby Rich (County Court at Law 2)
District Courts
- Casey Blair (86th, local administrative judge)
- Shelton T.W. Gibbs IV (422nd)
Justices of the Peace
- Mary Bardin (Pct. 1)
- Amy Tarno (Pct. 2)
- Rhitt Jackson (Pct. 3)
- Johnny Adams (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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Kaufman is one of only two counties in this group that publishes actual phone and messaging rates rather than just naming the vendor.
- The jail holds US Marshals Service prisoners — the visitation schedule says so plainly — but no intergovernmental agreement or per-diem rate is published. Contracts marked no.
- Bond info is marked no: the Sheriff's Office posts an "Approved Bail Bond Companies" list (a Google Drive PDF) but no guidance on how to post a bond.
- https://www.kaufmancounty.net/488/Inmate-Lookup is a generic multi-agency lookup widget listing sheriffs' offices in several states; the county's real roster is inmates.kaufmanso.com.
- TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection report page; Kaufman 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 Terry Crow, Precinct 2 Skeet Phillips, Precinct 3 Kelly Lane, Precinct 4 Tommy Moore; County Judge Jakie Allen.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
8 people have died in the Kaufman County jail since 2019.
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 Kaufman 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