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

The Detention Center

Reagan County Correctional Facility

Operated byReagan County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes — "Reagan County Correctional Facility" on the Sheriff's Office Jail Services page
Beds96, staffed by a Jail Administrator and 8 Corrections Officers (as published)
Address320 N. Plaza Ave., Big Lake, TX 76932
Phone325-884-2424
Roster"Search Current Inmates" opens a vendor roster at jailroster.kologik.com/?_TX1920000
What was triedhttps://www.reagancountysheriff.org/ ; https://www.reagancountysheriff.org/jailservices ; https://www.reagancountysheriff.org/inmate-phones ; https://www.reagancountysheriff.org/inmate-visitation ; https://www.reagancountysheriff.org/inmate-funds ; https://www.co.reagan.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.reagan.tx.us/page/reagan.Budget ; https://www.co.reagan.tx.us/page/reagan.Commissioners
Beds and population, 2026-0814 people held in 96 rated beds

Source: Reagan County SO — Jail Services · 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Reagan 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
Beds96 (Reagan County Sheriff's Office, Jail Services page); Texas Commission on Jail Standards rated capacity 96 as of 1 August 2026

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Jeff Garner

Published as"Sheriff Jeff Garner"
Address320 N. Plaza Ave., Big Lake, TX 76932 (P.O. Box 832)
Phone325-884-2424
Fax325-884-2252
Emailsheriff@reagancounty.org

Still needed

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

Source: Reagan County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Reagan County publishes a single Justice of the Peace office and does not print a precinct number for it. The county has no County Court at Law; the County Judge sits as the county court. The 112th Judicial District is a multi-county district.

County Judge

Jim O'Bryan

112th District Court

Pedro (Pete) Gomez, Jr.

Justice of the Peace

Patty Davenport

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

capacity is marked yes on the strength of the published 96-bed figure. The county does not publish a daily population count.
The inmate phone page names the vendors (Crown Correctional Telephone / cidnet) but publishes no per-minute rate; the inmate funds page names the deposit channels (kiosk, jailatm.com, NCIC) but no commissary prices. fees is therefore no.
The inmate funds page mentions that deposited money may be used "for posting bond", but the county publishes no instructions on how to post bond, so bond_info is no.
The commissioners' minutes link published by the county points to an outside records system, https://reagan.ds.kofile.systems/, which did not respond when checked.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Members: Jim O'Bryan (County Judge), Mike Vargas (Pct. 1), Tim Sellman (Pct. 2), Tommy Holt (Pct. 3), Mary Loftin (Pct. 4).
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

No death in the Reagan County jail appears on the state's record since 2016.

0 by suicide

0 illness or medical

0 deaths in all, 2016 onward

People held, 2026-0814 in 96 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them100.0%

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 Reagan 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