Randall County

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

• Operated byRandall County Sheriff's Office
• County publishes a jail nameNo — randallcounty.gov prints only the word "Jail" as a phone label in the Sheriff directory entry; no facility name appears on the county site
• Jail address (from Sheriff directory entry)9100 S Georgia, Amarillo, TX 79118
• Jail phone806-468-5752
• Sheriff's Office sitehttps://www.randallcounty.gov/164/Sheriffs-Office redirects to https://www.randallso.gov, whose robots.txt is "User-agent: * / Disallow: /" — its pages could not be retrieved, so nothing on that site is counted or quoted here
• What was triedhttps://www.randallcounty.gov/directory.aspx?did=33 ; https://www.randallcounty.gov/164/Sheriffs-Office ; https://www.randallcounty.gov/sitemap ; https://www.randallcounty.gov/156/Budget ; https://www.randallcounty.gov/441/PREA-Reports ; https://www.randallcounty.gov/462/Visitation ; https://www.randallcounty.gov/261/Bail-Bonds ; https://www.randallcounty.gov/222/Commissioners-Court
• Beds and population, 2026-08416 people held in 550 rated beds

Source: Randall County, TX — Staff Directory: Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

• ✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Randall 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
• Beds550 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026); the county's own site publishes no bed count

The Sheriff

Sheriff Christopher Forbis

• Published as"Christopher Forbis" in the county Staff Directory under Sheriff
• Address9100 S Georgia, Amarillo, TX 79118
• Sheriff's Office / Records phone806-468-5800
• Jail phone806-468-5752
• NoteThe county directory links out to a separate Sheriff's Office site, randallso.gov

Source: Randall County, TX — Staff Directory: Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Randall County publishes three Justice of the Peace offices — Precinct 1, Precinct 4 and Precinct 4A. The JP index page (/309/Justices-of-the-Peace) links the three offices without printing names; the names above are taken from the county's own sitemap, where the pages are titled "Justice of the Peace 1 Judge J. Tracy Byrd", "Justice of the Peace 4 Judge Joanne Garcia Flores" and "Justice of the Peace 4A Judge Bob Crump". Bob Crump and Matt Martindale are independently confirmed as Bail Bond Board members on https://www.randallcounty.gov/261/Bail-Bonds. The 47th and 181st District Court links leave the county site for 47thdistrictcourt.org and the 181st court's own site; both courts are shared with Potter County (the 47th also with Armstrong).

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 →