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

The Detention Center

Montgomery County Jail

Operated byMontgomery County Sheriff's Office (Jail Command, Justice Bureau)
County publishes a jail nameYes — "The Montgomery County Jail houses inmates for misdemeanor and felony crimes."
Address1 Criminal Justice Drive, Conroe, TX 77301
Staffing334 sworn and civilian personnel, six lieutenants, seven sergeants, 21 detention sergeants
Inmate inquiries(936) 760-5800 option 1; mcsocjr@mctx.org
Rosterhttps://jailroster.mctx.org/
VisitationScheduled online 24 hours ahead at https://mcsojailvisitation.mctx.org/visitation
Inmate mailFrom 26 May 2026 all non-legal mail goes offsite to PO Box 16120, Jonesboro, AR 72401 and is delivered electronically
What was triedhttps://www.mctxsheriff.org/divisions/jail_division/index.php ; https://www.mctxsheriff.org/divisions/jail_division/faq.php ; https://www.mctx.org/departments/departments_a_-_c/bail_bond_board/index.php ; https://www.mctx.org/departments/departments_a_-_b/budget_office.php
Beds and population, 2026-081,140 people held in 1,317 rated beds

Source: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office — Jail · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

5/10Partial

✓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
✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Montgomery 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
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Wesley Doolittle

Published as"SHERIFF WESLEY DOOLITTLE"
Headquarters1 Criminal Justice Dr., Conroe, TX 77301
General information(936) 760-5800
Non-emergency dispatch(936) 538-5900
Chief, Justice BureauJesse Razo
Jail CommandCaptain Jeremiah Richards and Captain Jake-Paul Gonzales

Still needed

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

Source: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office — Command Staff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The county lists County Courts at Law 1 and 3 through 6; no County Court at Law 2 appears on the county's own page. Judge Robert Trapp is listed for the Second Administrative Judicial Region of Texas, seated in Conroe, on both the county courts and district courts pages. There are five Justice of the Peace precincts.

County Judge

Mark J. Keough

County Courts at Law

John C. Hafley (County Court at Law 1)
Amy Tucker (County Court at Law 3)
Echo Hutson (County Court at Law 4)
Keith Stewart (County Court at Law 5)
Scharlene W. Valdez (County Court at Law 6)

District Courts

Phil Grant (9th District Court)
Lisa Michalk (221st District Court)
Kristin Bays (284th District Court)
Kathleen Hamilton (359th District Court)
Jennifer J. Robin (410th District Court)
Tracy A. Gilbert (418th District Court)
Patty Maginnis (435th District Court)
Vince Santini (457th District Court)

Justices of the Peace

Wayne L. Mack (Pct. 1)
Trey Spikes (Pct. 2)
Jay Mac Sanders (Pct. 3)
Jason Dunn (Pct. 4)
Matt Masden (Pct. 5)

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

Fees is marked "yes" on money-deposit service fees only. The jail FAQ publishes a full fee table for putting money on an inmate account — lobby kiosk $4.00 for cash deposits $0.01-$300.00, and tiered credit/debit fees of $3.95 / $6.95 / $8.95 / $10.95 by deposit band at the kiosk and on Access Corrections, and $4.95 / $7.95 / $9.95 / $11.95 by phone on 1-866-345-1884. No telephone per-minute rate and no video-visit rate is published.
Bond: the county runs a Bail Bond Board page with bond forms (licensed sureties or cash bond, attorney sureties), a bond fee refund form, a bond release request form, a licensed bail bond agency contact list, local rules, agendas and minutes. That is clear guidance on how to post bond.
Capacity: the Jail page publishes staffing (334 personnel) but no bed count and no daily population.
No death-in-custody report, PREA audit result, jail inspection result or inter-agency housing contract with rates was found on either the county site or the Sheriff's Office site.
Budget Office publishes preliminary, proposed and adopted budgets FY2020 through FY2027.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Robert C. Walker, Precinct 2 Charlie Riley, Precinct 3 Ritch Wheeler, Precinct 4 Matt Gray; County Judge Mark J. Keough.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

19 people have died in the Montgomery County jail since 2016.

5 by suicide

7 illness or medical

19 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them13 of 19

Deaths within the first week of arriving6

Most recent death on the state's record2025-11-11

People held, 2026-081,140 in 1,317 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them68.8%

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 Montgomery 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?

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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