The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byMaverick County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — the only name-like reference is the unexplained abbreviation "TBDC" in the staff titles "Jail Warden (TBDC)" and, on the directory page, "Jail TBDC". The site never expands it
- Jail leadership namedWarden Roberto Parra and Lieutenant Joshua Cruz, both reachable on the Sheriff's Office number
- Sheriff's Office address1051 Balboa-Jones Memorial Blvd, Eagle Pass, TX 78852 (no separate jail address published)
- Stated dutyThe Sheriff's biography states the office is "responsible for ... operation of the county jail"
- What was triedhttps://co.maverick.tx.us/government ; https://co.maverick.tx.us/government/tom-schmerber ; https://co.maverick.tx.us/contact ; https://co.maverick.tx.us/departments ; https://co.maverick.tx.us/services ; https://co.maverick.tx.us/resources/budgets
- Beds and population, 2026-0856 people held in 250 rated beds
Source: Maverick County — County Directory · 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
- Beds250 rated capacity (TCJS Inmate Population Report, 1 Aug 2026); 56 held, 22.4% of capacity — the emptiest jail in this group, and not published by the county itself
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Tom Schmerber
- Published as"Tom Schmerber, County Sheriff"
- Address1051 Balboa-Jones Memorial Blvd, Eagle Pass, TX 78852
- Phone830-773-2321; sheriffschmerber@co.maverick.tx.us
- Chief DeputyRoberto De Leon
- Jail Warden (TBDC)Roberto Parra — warden@co.maverick.tx.us
- Jail LieutenantJoshua Cruz
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Maverick County — Sheriff Tom Schmerber · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Maverick County's own website does not publish the County Judge's name. The dedicated County Judge page is headed "County Judge" three times with a phone number, an office address and a Chief of Staff (Pablo Garcia Jr.); the 62-entry county directory lists the entry as "CJ County Judge" with no name. Every other elected officer, including all five JPs and both district judges, is named. Five JPs sit across four precincts (Pct. 3 has a second court at Quemado).
County Judge
- Not found — the county publishes the office with no name
District Courts
- Maribel Flores (293rd Judicial District)
- Amado Abascal III (365th Judicial District)
Justices of the Peace
- Kina Mancha (Pct. 1)
- Ernie Leija (Pct. 2)
- Domingo Rodriguez (Pct. 3)
- Jeannie Smith (Pct. 3-2)
- Teresa Hernandez (Pct. 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
- The stand-out finding: Maverick County's official website does not name its County Judge — the presiding officer of the Commissioners Court and the county's budget officer — anywhere, including in its own 62-entry staff directory.
- The jail is referred to only as "TBDC", an abbreviation the site never expands, though it names the warden and the jail lieutenant.
- TCJS recorded 37 in-state contract inmates in a 250-bed jail on 1 Aug 2026 — roughly two-thirds of everyone held there was another agency's prisoner. No contract, no rate and no bed-rental terms are published by the county.
- The FY2027 proposed budget, the FY2024 annual financial report, check registers and monthly financial reports are all published; the budget PDF is a 24MB scan 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 Yolanda Ramon, Precinct 2 Roxy Rios, Precinct 3 Olga Ramos, Precinct 4 Roberto Ruiz; the County Judge is not named on the site.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
3 people have died in the Maverick County jail since 2020.
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 Maverick 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