The Detention Center
Marion County Jail
- Operated byMarion County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — but only on the Sheriff's Office roster site, which is headed "Marion County Jail — Inmate Directory". The county's own pages at co.marion.tx.us never write the phrase
- Facility location (per the roster site)102 W. Dallas St, Jefferson, TX 75657
- Rosterhttps://marioncountyjailtexas.floot.app/ — linked from the county Sheriff page as "Current Inmate Roster"
- CommissaryOnline deposits only — lonestarcommissary.com or orders.tigercommissary.com; no prices published
- Inmate communicationNCIC; physical mail scanned at PO Box 591, Longview, TX 75606 and destroyed after scanning
- What was triedhttps://www.co.marion.tx.us/page/marion.Sheriff ; https://www.co.marion.tx.us/upload/page/1271/docs/NCIC%20Mail%20Rules%20Marion%20County%20Tx.pdf ; https://marioncountyjailtexas.floot.app/jail-info (renders client-side; no readable content) ; https://www.co.marion.tx.us/page/marion.Budgets
- Beds and population, 2026-0828 people held in 39 rated beds
Source: Marion County Jail — Inmate Directory · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓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
- Beds39 rated capacity (TCJS Inmate Population Report, 1 Aug 2026); 28 held, 71.8% of capacity — not published by the county itself
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff David Capps
- Published as"Sheriff David Capps"
- Address on county site114 W Austin, Jefferson, TX 75657; phone 903-665-7201
- Address on the Sheriff's roster site102 W. Dallas St, Jefferson, TX 75657; phone (903) 665-3271, 24/7
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Marion County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
No County Court at Law. The County Judge's own page carries only a phone number; his name is published on the Commissioners Court page.
County Judge
- Leward J. LaFleur
District Courts
- Dean Fowler (115th Judicial District — Upshur and Marion)
- Michael Kopech (276th Judicial District — Marion, Morris, Titus, Camp)
Justices of the Peace
- Chuck Rogers (Pct. 1)
- Mandy Moore (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's name and address exist only on the Sheriff's Office roster site (marioncountyjailtexas.floot.app), which is linked from the county Sheriff page. Nothing on co.marion.tx.us itself names or locates the jail.
- The two addresses do not agree: the county Sheriff page gives 114 W Austin; the roster site gives 102 W. Dallas St for both the Sheriff's Office and the jail.
- The roster site's /jail-info page (visiting hours, rules, commissary) renders entirely client-side and returned no readable content, so its contents are not recorded here.
- Adopted budgets run back to 2022 and the 2026 adopted budget is posted, but it is a scanned PDF with no extractable text.
- 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 J. R. Ashley, Precinct 2 Jacob Pattison, Precinct 3 Paul Webb, Precinct 4 Gered Lee; County Judge Leward J. LaFleur. (The 2025 budget page records Ralph Meisenheimer as the Precinct 3 vote on that budget.)
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Marion 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 Marion 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