The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byNot found — the county website does not state who operates the jail
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the words jail, inmate, bond and commissary do not appear on the Sheriff page
- Jail addressNot found
- Jail phoneNot found
- Rated capacity112 beds (TCJS inmate population report, 1 Aug 2026)
- Population on 1 Aug 202642 (37.5% of capacity), per TCJS
- What was triedhttps://www.co.lampasas.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.lampasas.tx.us/page/lampasas.Sheriff (full link list reviewed — no jail page exists)
- Beds and population, 2026-0842 people held in 112 rated beds
Source: TCJS Inmate Population Report (PopReportCurrent.xlsx) · 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
- Beds112 (TCJS rated capacity, 1 Aug 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff David Parker
- Office address1210 Barnes Street, Lampasas, Texas 76550
- Phone512-556-8255
- Fax512-556-5809
- Emailsheriff@co.lampasas.tx.us
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lampasas County, Texas — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
No county court at law is listed; the 27th District Court is shared with Bell County.
County Judge
- Randall J. Hoyer
District Court (27th Judicial District)
- Debbie Garrett
Justices of the Peace
- Misty Wakeman (Precinct 1)
- Camron Brister (Precincts 2 & 3)
- Dan Hause (Precinct 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
- Adopted and proposed budgets are published for FY 2012-13 through FY 2025-26.
- Agendas and minutes are carried on the county calendar from October 2019 forward, reached from the Commissioners Court page.
- TCJS publishes only agency-wide reports online; a county-specific inspection report must be requested under the Public Information Act.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Bobby Carroll, Precinct 2 Jamie Smart, Precinct 3 Shad Hill, Precinct 4 Mark Rainwater. Court meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Lampasas County jail appears on the state's record 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 Lampasas 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