The Detention Center
Midland County Sheriff's Office Central Detention Center
- Operated byMidland County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — "The Midland County Sheriff's Office Central Detention Center is located at 400 South Main". Elsewhere the same site writes "Midland County Jail" and "Midland County Detention Center".
- Detention address400 S Main Street, Midland, TX 79701 (next to the William Ahders Law Enforcement Building)
- Detention phone432-688-4745
- Security levelsHouses all risk levels, low flight risk to maximum security; most inmates sentenced to under two years
- Phone vendorSecurus — collect and Advance Pay; no per-minute rate published
- Money depositsKiosk in Bonding, touchpayonline.com, or 1-866-232-1899; no fee schedule published
- What was triedhttps://www.co.midland.tx.us/200/Detention-Facility ; https://www.co.midland.tx.us/201/Current-Detainees ; https://www.co.midland.tx.us/761/Inmate-Phone-Calls ; https://www.co.midland.tx.us/762/FAQs ; https://www.co.midland.tx.us/1042/Published-Reports
- Beds and population, 2026-08445 people held in 489 rated beds
Source: Midland County — Detention Facility · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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 built1990
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsPublished verbatim as "Central Detention has 202, 498-beds" — the county's own sentence, punctuation and all
Since then
- Expanded in 2011
The Sheriff
Sheriff David Criner
- Published as"Sheriff David Criner"
- Sheriff's Office1703 East County Road 120, Midland, TX 79706; 432-688-4600
- Chief DeputyRandy Eggleston
- Detention Division phone432-688-4745 / 432-688-4746
- Warrants Division432-688-4680
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Midland County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county's own JP page states plainly: "The Midland County Justices of the Peace are the designated Magistrates for Midland County. Each day a Justice of the Peace reviews arrest affidavits and criminal complaints... informs defendants of their rights, sets bond and issues bond conditions." The Precinct 2 page (https://www.co.midland.tx.us/1035/Precinct-2) publishes an address and phone but no judge's name.
County Judge
- Terry Johnson
County Courts at Law
- Mark Dettman (Presiding Judge, County Courts-at-Law)
- Marvin L. Moore (Presiding Judge, County Courts-at-Law 2)
District Courts
- David G. Rogers (142nd District Court)
- Elizabeth Byer Leonard (238th District Court)
- Brent Morgan (318th Family District Court)
- Leah Robertson (385th District Court)
- Jeff Robnett (441st District Court)
Justices of the Peace
- Edelmira "Ede" Subia (Pct. 1)
- Not published (Pct. 2)
- Susan Rayos (Pct. 3)
- John W. Barton (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
- Capacity is marked "yes" on beds only. The Detention Facility page publishes a bed figure and the build/expansion years; it does not publish a daily population. A live detainee list is published separately at https://www2.co.midland.tx.us/apps/inmates/, reached from https://www.co.midland.tx.us/201/Current-Detainees.
- The bed sentence on the county page reads "Central Detention has 202, 498-beds" — recorded exactly as published rather than interpreted.
- Phone: https://www.co.midland.tx.us/761/Inmate-Phone-Calls explains Securus collect and Advance Pay accounts but publishes no rate, so the fees check is "no".
- Published Reports (https://www.co.midland.tx.us/1042/Published-Reports) carries drone reports and racial-profiling reports only — no death-in-custody report, no PREA audit, no jail inspection result.
- Bond: the Detention FAQ answers "How long until the person will be released after bond has been posted" but nowhere sets out how to post one, so bond_info is "no".
- Budget is published by the Auditor's Office as the 2026 Adopted Budget Book and 2027 Proposed Budget Book.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Charles Hall, Precinct 2 Jeff Somers, Precinct 3 Steven Villela, Precinct 4 Dianne Anderson; County Judge Terry Johnson.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
10 people have died in the Midland County jail since 2018.
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 Midland 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