The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byNot stated on the county site; the Roberts County Sheriff is the county's jailer of record
- County publishes a jail nameNo — co.roberts.tx.us has no jail page and the Sheriff page names no facility
- Sheriff's Office address300 E Commercial St. / P.O. Box 66, Miami, TX 79059
- ScaleRoberts County is one of the smallest counties in Texas; the state lists its facility at a 3-bed rated capacity
- What was triedhttps://www.co.roberts.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.roberts.tx.us/page/roberts.Sheriff ; https://www.co.roberts.tx.us/page/roberts.Commissioners ; https://www.co.roberts.tx.us/page/roberts.Justice ; https://www.co.roberts.tx.us/page/roberts.District.Judge ; https://www.co.roberts.tx.us/page/roberts.County.Judge ; https://www.co.roberts.tx.us/page/roberts.Public.Notices
- Beds and population, 2026-080 people held in 3 rated beds
Source: Roberts County Texas — Sheriff's Office · 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), reported holding no one on that date; the county publishes no bed count
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bruce Skidmore
- Published asSheriff Bruce Skidmore
- AddressP.O. Box 66, Miami, TX 79059 (courthouse: 300 E Commercial St.)
- Phone(806) 868-3121
- Fax(806) 868-6521
- Emailbruce.skidmore@co.roberts.tx.us
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Roberts County Texas — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Roberts County publishes one Justice of the Peace, at 300 E. Commercial St., Suite 103, and prints no precinct number. The 31st Judicial District is a multi-county Panhandle district. There is no County Court at Law.
County Judge
- Mitchell D. Locke
31st District Court
- Steven R. Emmert
Justice of the Peace
- Daphne Wheeler
- 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
- Roberts County publishes no jail page, no roster, no fees and no bond guidance. The only budget document on the site is the 2026-2027 Proposed Budget PDF, posted with the tax-rate notices; there is no archive of adopted budgets.
- The county publishes no Commissioners Court agenda or minutes archive — only a Public Notices calendar and individual notice PDFs.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Members: Mitchell D. Locke (County Judge), Cleve Wheeler (Pct. 1), William Gill (Pct. 2), Jake Booze (Pct. 3), James F. Duvall (Pct. 4). All at 300 East Commercial St., Miami.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Roberts 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