The Detention Center
Parmer County Jail
- Operated byParmer County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — "The Inmate Telephone Service at the Parmer County Jail is contracted with Crown Correctional Telephone, Inc."; the Inmate Money Deposit page also names the "Parmer County Law Enforcement Center"
- Current inmateshttp://64.90.148.227/dcn/ , published on the county home page as "Current Inmates"
- Phone vendorCrown Correctional Telephone, Inc.; account service through Cidnet (customer.cidnet.net). Collect and pre-paid only; no incoming calls
- DepositsKiosk in the Law Enforcement Center lobby (cash or credit) and jailatm.com
- Pages published in Spanish as wellInmate phone services and "Hacer depositos recluso"
- What was triedhttps://parmercounty.texas.gov/ ; ?page_id=14 (Sheriff) ; ?page_id=519 (Inmate Phone Services) ; ?page_id=983 (Inmate Money Deposit) ; ?page_id=533 (Inmate Visitation) ; ?page_id=525 (Inmate Mail Protocol) ; ?page_id=199 (Minutes)
- Beds and population, 2026-0832 people held in 49 rated beds
Source: Parmer County — Inmate Phone Services · 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
- Beds49 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026); the county's own site publishes no bed count
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Eric Geske
- Published as"Eric Geske — Sheriff" on the county's Sheriff's Office page
- Mailing addressPO Box 860, Farwell, Texas 79325
- Phone806-481-3303 (fax 806-481-3305)
- Administrative assistantAmy Dudley
- Fee schedulehttps://parmercounty.texas.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Sheriff-Fees-of-Office.pdf
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Parmer County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Parmer County publishes no County Court at Law. The county's District Judge page prints only "Honorable Kathryn Gurley" with a Farwell address and does not state the district number; Parmer County sits in the 287th Judicial District. Three Justice of the Peace precincts are published, in Friona, Bovina and Farwell.
County Judge
- Isabel "Izzy" Carrasco
287th District Court
- Kathryn Gurley
Justices of the Peace
- Rhonda Wilkins (Pct. 1)
- Deena Lucero (Pct. 2)
- Pamela Haseloff (Pct. 3)
- 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 "Current Inmates" link on the county home page points to a bare IP address, http://64.90.148.227/dcn/, which answered when tested.
- bond_info is marked no. The Inmate Money Deposit page says inmates "may receive money for the purposes of posting bond" but publishes no procedure, amounts or who to pay.
- fees is marked no. The Inmate Phone Services page names the vendor and the two calling programs but publishes no per-minute rate.
- The county publishes its budgets as PDFs in a "Finances" block on the home page rather than on a dedicated budget page; the 2025 Adopted Budget and the FY2027 Proposed Budget were both linked there when read.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Members: Isabel "Izzy" Carrasco (County Judge), Kirk Frye (Pct. 1), Charles Wilkins (Pct. 2), Kenny White (Pct. 3), Casey Russell (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Parmer 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 Parmer 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