The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byKinney County Sheriff's Office (implied — the county publishes no operator statement)
- County publishes a jail nameNo proper facility name. The only naming anywhere on the county site is inside the Adopted Budget PDF, where two funds are headed "DETENTION CENTER" (fund 035) and "KC DETENTION CENTER" (fund 061), and the Sheriff department carries line items "JAIL SUPPLIES" (010-5-2500-0615) and "JAIL EQUIP" (010-5-2500-0630)
- Beds28 TCJS-rated capacity; 0 held on 1 Aug 2026 (TCJS, not the county)
- Federal prisoner moneyThe published budget shows US Marshals prisoner revenue of $10,995,619 (FY2022), $6,750,756 (FY2023) and $2,392,769 (FY2024) in fund 035, plus "HOUSING US MARSHALL REVENUE" of $502,679 / $832,290 / $738,278 in fund 061
- Phone commission"DET. CENTER PHONE COMMISSION" revenue of $219,023 (FY2022), $250,677 (FY2023), $229,465 (FY2024); $160,000 budgeted for FY2026
- Inmate housing paid outSheriff line 010-5-2500-0671 INMATE HOUSING: $150,000 adopted FY2025, $174,100 YTD
- What was triedhttps://www.co.kinney.tx.us/page/Sheriff ; https://www.co.kinney.tx.us/page/Justice ; https://www.co.kinney.tx.us/page/Commissioners.Court ; https://www.co.kinney.tx.us/page/Budgets ; https://www.co.kinney.tx.us/upload/page/0074/2026%20Adopted%20Budget.pdf
- Beds and population, 2026-080 people held in 28 rated beds
Source: Kinney County — Adopted Budget, September 22, 2025 · 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
- Beds28 (TCJS-rated capacity, Aug 2026) — the county publishes no bed count
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brad Coe
- Published as"Sheriff Brad Coe / County Sheriff"
- Address109 North Street / P.O. Box 1200, Brackettville, TX 78832
- Phone830-563-2788
- Fax830-563-9144
- Named in the budgetThe FY2026 Adopted Budget heads the Sheriff department "Brad Coe SHERIFF"
- Jail on the pageNone — the Sheriff page points the public to VINELink instead
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kinney County — County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
One Justice of the Peace serves the whole county, at 207 E Spring Street, Brackettville. The 63rd District Judge sits in Del Rio. The county publishes no magistration plan or first-appearance schedule.
County Judge
- Judge John Paul Schuster
District Court (63rd Judicial District)
- Judge Roland Andrade
Justice of the Peace
- Hon. Narce D. Villarreal
- 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
- Kinney County's Sheriff page says nothing at all about a jail, yet the county's own adopted budget carries two separate detention-centre funds and, in FY2022-FY2024, more than $19 million in US Marshals prisoner revenue. The money is public; the facility is not described anywhere.
- The named check is scored "no": budget fund headings "DETENTION CENTER" and "KC DETENTION CENTER" are department labels, not a published facility name, and no page on the site names a jail.
- The contracts check is scored "no": federal prisoner revenue is published as budget line items, but no contract document and no per-diem rate is published.
- The fees check is scored "no": the budget books phone-commission revenue but publishes no call, video-visit or commissary rate.
- Budget check verified against the text of the Adopted Budget PDF: jail line items 010-5-2500-0615 JAIL SUPPLIES and 010-5-2500-0630 JAIL EQUIP sit inside the Sheriff department.
- TCJS shows the 28-bed jail holding 0 people on 1 Aug 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 Mark Frerich, Pct. 2 Joe Montalvo, Pct. 3 Dennis Dodson, Pct. 4 Tim Ward; County Judge John Paul Schuster.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Kinney 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