The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byMadison County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the Sheriff page has a block headed simply "Jail" with an address; the words "Madison County Jail" appear nowhere
- Jail address2005 E. Main Street, Madisonville, TX 77864 — a separate site from the Sheriff's Office at 3301 E. Main
- Rosterhttps://interopweb.com/madisonsotx/ — linked from the Sheriff page as "for current jail roster"; live, showing 49 booked inmates on 22 Aug 2026 with bond amounts and days in jail
- VisitationFemale inmates daily 8am-11am, male inmates daily 1pm-5pm, appointment at least 24 hours ahead
- Inmate fundsJailATM (deposits.jailatm.com) or kiosk in the jail lobby; no rates published
- What was triedhttps://www.co.madison.tx.us/page/madison.Sheriff ; https://www.co.madison.tx.us/page/madison.Budgets ; https://www.co.madison.tx.us/page/madison.Commissioners.Court
- Beds and population, 2026-0844 people held in 51 rated beds
Source: Madison County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✓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 — 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
- Beds51 rated capacity (TCJS Inmate Population Report, 1 Aug 2026); 44 held, 86.3% of capacity — the fullest jail in this group, and not published by the county itself
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bobby Adams
- Published as"BOBBY ADAMS" (all caps) under "County Sheriff"
- Sheriff's Office3301 E. Main Street, Madisonville, TX 77864
- Jail2005 E. Main Street, Madisonville, TX 77864
- Phone936-348-2755 (follow prompts); SO fax 936-348-3763, jail fax 936-245-1990
- Records emailrecords@madisoncountytx.org
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Madison County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Madison County has no County Court at Law; the County Judge sits as the County Court. Both JPs share one office at 101 West Main St., Suite 130. The 278th judge's page is sourced at https://www.co.madison.tx.us/page/madison.278th.
County Judge
- Clark Osborne
County Court
- Clark Osborne (the constitutional County Court; Donna Cuevas is the designated official court recorder)
District Courts
- David Moorman (12th Judicial District)
- Tracy Sorensen (278th Judicial District)
Justices of the Peace
- Kevin Counsil (Pct. 1)
- Steven Cole (Pct. 2)
- 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
- The jail is at 2005 E. Main Street, a different address from the Sheriff's Office at 3301 E. Main — but the county never gives the building a name.
- The live roster is unusually informative for a small county: it shows arresting agency, days in jail and total bond, and marks bond "NOT SET" where that is the case.
- Budgets are published back to 2015-2016 in proposed and adopted pairs, but the FY2026 adopted budget is a scanned PDF with no extractable text, so no jail line item can be read from it.
- Since 10 September 2024 agendas and packets have moved to a CivicClerk portal; minutes are held by the County Clerk.
- TCJS does not publish a per-county inspection page or routine inspection report online; the only county-level TCJS documents found are the statewide Inmate Population Report (https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PopReportCurrent.xlsx) and the Non-Compliant Jails list (https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/non-compliant-jails/), which did not list this county as of 22 Aug 2026.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Steve Parrish, Precinct 2 Carl Wiseman, Precinct 3 Carl L. Cannon, Precinct 4 David Pohorelsky; County Judge Clark Osborne.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Madison County jail since 2025.
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 Madison 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