The Detention Center
Morris County Jail
- Operated byMorris County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes - but only inside a PDF. The Sheriff web page says only "Sheriff's Office"; the Inmate Jail Rules PDF names the "Morris County Jail".
- Address502 Union Street, Daingerfield, TX 75638 (Sheriff's Office / Jail)
- VisitationTwo visitors a day, two visits a week; Tuesday 1-4pm and Sunday 2-5pm, 20 minutes, by sight and sound only
- CommissaryTwice weekly, purchases through the inmate trust fund only; no prices published
- Inmate medical chargesPhysician $25, x-ray $20, laboratory $20, dental $25, pharmacy $10, hospitalization $75
- What was triedhttps://www.co.morris.tx.us/page/morris.Sheriff ; https://www.co.morris.tx.us/upload/page/3441/INMATE%20JAIL%20RULES.pdf ; https://www.co.morris.tx.us/upload/page/3441/Inmate%20mail%20Update.pdf ; https://www.co.morris.tx.us/page/morris.Commissioners.Court
- Beds and population, 2026-0830 people held in 48 rated beds
Source: Morris County - Inmate Jail Rules (PDF) · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
- BedsNot published by the county. TCJS rates the Morris County jail at 48 beds (Aug 1, 2026 population report).
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jack Martin
- Published as"Sheriff Jack Martin"
- Address502 Union Street, Daingerfield, TX 75638
- Phone903-645-2232
- Fax903-645-4443
- Emailjmartin@co.morris.tx.us
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Morris County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Morris County has two JP offices covering four precincts - Pct. 1 and a combined Pct. 2/3/4 bench, both at 502 Union Street. The county site lists the 76th and 276th District Courts without naming their judges.
County Judge
- Doug Reeder
Justices of the Peace
- Nikita Fridia (Pct. 1)
- Jennifer Easley (Pcts. 2, 3 & 4)
District Courts
- Not found - the county names the 76th and 276th Judicial District benches but publishes no judge names
- 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 →
Notes on the record
- No agendas or minutes are published - the Commissioners Court page offers only the 2025 and 2026 regular session calendars (PDF).
- Adopted budgets FY2015-16 through FY2025-26 are published; the FY2025-26 PDF is a scan with no extractable text, so the jail line item could not be read.
- The only fee schedule published is Sheriff and Constable civil process fees, not jail phone/video/commissary rates.
- TCJS Aug 1, 2026 population report: 30 held against 48 rated beds; 3 Morris County prisoners housed elsewhere.
- Morris County is not on the TCJS non-compliant list as of Aug 2026.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Pct. 1 Greg Frazier, Pct. 2 Kerry McCoy, Pct. 3 Michael Clair, Pct. 4 Todd Freeman.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
1 people have died in the Morris 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 Morris 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