The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byKimble County Sheriff's Office (implied — the county publishes no operator statement)
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the word "jail" appears nowhere on the Sheriff page or in the site navigation, although the county operates a TCJS-regulated jail
- Beds19 TCJS-rated capacity; 18 held on 1 Aug 2026 (TCJS, not the county)
- Custody lookupThe Sheriff page points the public to VINELink.com rather than publishing a roster
- Magistration"Magistrate Court every morning at 9:00am Central" by Zoom, per a PDF on the Sheriff page
- What was triedhttps://www.co.kimble.tx.us/page/Sheriff ; https://www.co.kimble.tx.us/page/Justice ; https://www.co.kimble.tx.us/page/County.Court ; https://www.co.kimble.tx.us/page/Budgets ; https://www.co.kimble.tx.us/page/Commissioners.Court ; http://www.co.kimble.tx.us/upload/page/0082/Magistrates%20for%20Kimble%20County.pdf
- Beds and population, 2026-0818 people held in 19 rated beds
Source: TCJS Inmate Population Report (current) · 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
- Beds19 (TCJS-rated capacity, Aug 2026) — the county publishes no bed count
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Matthew Suttle
- Published as"Sheriff Matthew Suttle / County Sheriff (Appointed 12/3/2024)"
- Address415 Pecan Street, Junction, TX 76849
- Phone(325) 446-2766 non-emergency
- Fax(325) 446-4341
- Emailmatt.suttle@co.kimble.tx.us
- Deputies listPosted as a PDF dated 18 March 2025
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kimble County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Kimble County publishes the actual magistrate roster: a PDF on the Sheriff page lists "Magistrates for Kimble County: County Judge Hal Rose, Justice of The Peace Josh Cantrell", sitting every morning at 9:00 a.m. Central by Zoom. The County Judge and the Constitutional County Court are the same person, published under two spellings of his name. The 452nd District Judge sits in Mason; since 1 Jan 2025 district court in Kimble is held at the Stevenson Center, 440 N US Hwy 83, Junction.
County Judge
- Judge Hal A. Rose
Constitutional County Court
- Judge Harold "Hal" Rose
District Court (452nd Judicial District)
- Judge Rob Hofmann
Justice of the Peace
- Judge Josh Cantrell
- 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
- Kimble County runs a 19-bed TCJS-regulated jail and never names or describes it anywhere on its own website. The Sheriff page is a contact card plus a deputies list.
- Budget check counted on the Budgets page, which posts the 2026 Approved County Budget. That PDF is a scanned image with no extractable text, so a sheriff/jail line item could not be verified.
- Commissioners Court minutes are posted on the same page as the commissioner roster and are current through June 2026.
- TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection page or report URL. Its only county-specific PDFs are non-compliance notices, and this county is not on the Non-Compliant Jails list at https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/non-compliant-jails/ as of 22 Aug 2026.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Pct. 1 Brayden Schulze, Pct. 2 Kelly Simon, Pct. 3 Dennis Dunagan, Pct. 4 Chad Gipson; County Judge Hal A. Rose.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Kimble County jail since 2016.
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 Kimble 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