The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byNot stated on the county site; the Real County Sheriff is the county's jailer of record
- County publishes a jail nameNo — co.real.tx.us has no jail page and the Sheriff page names no facility
- Sheriff's Office addressPO Box 445 / 146 Highway 83 South, Leakey, TX 78873
- Custody lookup offeredOnly VINELink (a statewide victim-notification service), not a county roster
- Only fee schedule published"Sheriff & Constable Fees 2025" — civil process fees, not jail fees: https://www.co.real.tx.us/upload/page/0262/Sheriff_Constable%20Fees%202025.pdf
- What was triedhttps://www.co.real.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.real.tx.us/page/real.Sheriff ; https://www.co.real.tx.us/page/real.Commissioners.Court ; https://www.co.real.tx.us/page/real.Justice ; https://www.co.real.tx.us/page/real.District.Court ; https://www.co.real.tx.us/page/real.County.Judge ; https://www.co.real.tx.us/page/real.Financial.Transparency
- Beds and population, 2026-081 people held in 3 rated beds
Source: Real County, Texas — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds3 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026) — a holding-size facility; the county publishes no bed count
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Nathan T. Johnson
- Published as"Honorable Nathan T. Johnson"
- AddressPO Box 445, Leakey, TX 78873-0445
- Non-emergency phone830-232-5201
- Fax830-232-5102
- Courthouse146 Highway 83 South, Leakey, TX 78873
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Real County, Texas — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Real County publishes one Justice of the Peace and prints no precinct number. The District Court page names Judge Kelley T. Kimble but does not print the judicial district number, so none is asserted here. There is no County Court at Law.
County Judge
- Bella A. Rubio
District Court
- Kelley T. Kimble
Justice of the Peace
- Dianne Rogers
- 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
- Real County publishes no jail page of any kind. Nine of the ten checks fail; only the budget page (adopted budgets FY2019-20 through FY2025-26 plus audited financial reports back to FY2013-14) passes.
- The county publishes no Commissioners Court agenda or minutes archive; the only meeting-adjacent page is Public Notices.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Members: Bella A. Rubio (County Judge), Brad Hart (Pct. 1), Shawn D. Gray (Pct. 2), Ramon Ybarra (Pct. 3), Charles E. Hunger (Pct. 4).
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Real 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 Real 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