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

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 capacity54 beds (TCJS inmate population report, 1 Aug 2026)
Population on 1 Aug 202640 (74.1% of capacity), per TCJS
What was triedhttps://www.llanocounty.gov/ ; https://www.llanocounty.gov/page/Sheriff (full 41-link list reviewed — no jail page exists)
Beds and population, 2026-0840 people held in 54 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Llano 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
Beds54 (TCJS rated capacity, 1 Aug 2026)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Marquis Cantu

Office address752 Andy Taylor Drive, Suite A, Llano, Texas 78643
Phone325-247-5767
Fax325-247-3273
NoteSheriff page publishes racial profiling reports and public information requests but no jail content

Still needed

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

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

The Judges

The Commissioners Court page still carries an older broadband-study item signed "Ron Cunningham, Llano County Judge"; the County Judge page names Rob T. Hardy, which is the name recorded here.

County Judge

Rob T. Hardy

District Court (33rd Judicial District)

J. Allan Garrett

District Court (424th Judicial District)

Evan Stubbs

Justices of the Peace

Sam Silver (Precinct 1)
Maureen Riggs (Precinct 2)
Deb Edwards (Precinct 3)
Lisa Simpson (Precinct 4)

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

Approved budgets (FY2024 to FY2027) and annual financial reports (2017 to 2025) are published on the County Auditor page; there is no separate budget tab in the main navigation.
The county moved from co.llano.tx.us to llanocounty.gov — the old domain 302-redirects to the new one, and some budget PDFs are still served under co.llano.tx.us paths.
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 Peter R. Jones, Precinct 2 Linda Raschke, Precinct 3 Brent Richards, Precinct 4 Jerry Don Moss.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

3 people have died in the Llano County jail since 2018.

1 by suicide

1 illness or medical

3 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them1 of 3

Deaths within the first week of arriving2

Most recent death on the state's record2023-06-08

People held, 2026-0840 in 54 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them67.5%

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 Llano 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