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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byReeves County Sheriff's Office — Jail Administrator Veronica Martinez
County publishes a jail nameNo — the county lists the department as simply "Jail"; no facility name is printed
Jail address100 E 4th St., Pecos, TX 79772
Jail phone(432) 287-0222
VisitationSun & Tue 12:00-4:00 p.m.; Mon & Sat 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., scheduled through the Sheriff's Office
Inmate fundsDirected to jailatm.com; no rates published
What was triedhttps://www.reevescounty.org/ ; https://www.reevescounty.org/departments ; https://www.reevescounty.org/departments/sheriff-s-office ; https://www.reevescounty.org/departments/jail ; https://www.reevescounty.org/departments/sheriff-s-office/jail ; https://www.reevescounty.org/government/transparency ; https://www.reevescounty.org/government/regular-special-meeting-agendas-and-minutes
Beds and population, 2026-0841 people held in 84 rated beds

Source: Reeves County, TX — Jail · 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Reeves 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
Beds84 rated capacity (Texas Commission on Jail Standards Inmate Population Report, 1 August 2026); the county publishes no bed count

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Arturo "Art" Granado

Published asSheriff Arturo "Art" Granado
Address500 South Oak Street / P.O. Box 910, Pecos, TX 79772
Phone(432) 445-4901
Fax(432) 445-9403
Chief DeputyErnesto E. Lazcano

Still needed

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

Source: Reeves County, TX — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Reeves County publishes four Justice of the Peace precincts; Precinct 3 sits in Balmorhea and the others in Pecos. The 143rd Judicial District covers Loving, Reeves and Ward Counties.

County Judge

Leo Hung

County Court at Law

Scott W. Johnson

143rd District Court

Alan Nicholas

Justices of the Peace

Roger Harrison (Pct. 1)
Jim Riley (Pct. 2)
Liberty Wofford (Pct. 3)
Sam Lujan (Pct. 4)

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

The Jail department page links an inmate roster as a published document (/home/showpublisheddocument/6288/), but that document link could not be opened when checked, and there is no browsable roster page on the county site. roster is therefore marked no rather than credited to a link that did not resolve.
The county publishes adopted and proposed budgets from 2020 through 2027 plus audit reports on its transparency page; no separate sheriff or jail budget line is broken out on the web page itself.
The county's department index lists no detention complex or contract-detention page; nothing about holding other agencies' prisoners, or the rates for doing so, is published on reevescounty.org.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides; Precinct 4 was published as vacant when checked. Members: Leo Hung (County Judge), Louise Moore (Pct. 1), Israel Campos (Pct. 2), Paul Hinojos (Pct. 3), Pct. 4 vacant. Regular meetings the 2nd and 4th Monday at 9 a.m., Reeves County Courthouse, 3rd floor.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

3 people have died in the Reeves County jail since 2018.

1 by suicide

2 illness or medical

3 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them3 of 3

Deaths within the first week of arriving3

Most recent death on the state's record2020-10-21

People held, 2026-0841 in 84 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them61.0%

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 Reeves 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