The Detention Center
Scurry County Jail
- Operated byScurry County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — the county runs a dedicated "Scurry County Jail" page under Departments
- Jail address400 37th St, Snyder, TX 79549
- Jail phone325-573-3581
- In-person visitationTuesdays and Saturdays, split by sex, one 30-minute visit per visiting day, two visitors who must arrive together
- Video visitationThrough customer.cidnet.net, pre-scheduled only, 8am-10pm daily, three visits per inmate per day — no price published
- DepositsLobby kiosk (cash or card) or deposits.jailatm.com — no fee schedule published
- Beds and population, 2026-0871 people held in 161 rated beds
Source: Scurry County, Texas — Scurry County Jail · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
- Beds161 (rated capacity, TCJS county jail population report, 1 August 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Trey Wilson
- Published as"Sheriff Trey Wilson"
- Address400 37th Street, Snyder, TX 79549
- Phone325-573-3551
- Fax325-573-4456
- Chief DeputyJoshua Key
- Jail AdministratorHannah Counts
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Scurry County, Texas — County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Two Justices of the Peace, both at 1300 26th Street in Snyder, reachable on the same phone number. The county's "County Court" page carries only two legal aid links and does not name a judge; the County Judge page names Dan Hicks.
County Judge
- Dan Hicks
District Court (132nd Judicial District)
- Dana W. Cooley
Justices of the Peace
- Joe Lay (Pct. 1)
- Ricki Webb (Pct. 2)
- 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
- Scurry publishes more jail operating detail than anyone else in this group — a full visitation schedule and a video visitation policy — and no prices for any of it, so the fees check still fails.
- Budget check verified by OCR of the Official Budget 2026 (https://www.co.scurry.tx.us/page/open/907/0/Official Budget 2026.pdf), an 89-page scan. The index lists "COUNTY JAIL" and "SHERIFF" as separate departments and the jail pages carry General Fund 10, JAIL — DEPT 512, with lines for FOOD, DR MEDICAL FEES, JAIL INFIRMARY EXPENSE and PRISONER TRANSPORT, and a note that half the jail nurse's salary is paid from 10-512-1030.
- Agendas and minutes moved to a Commissioners Court agenda app; the county's Agendas page links current and archived agendas and archived minutes.
- TCJS recorded 20 contract inmates held for other agencies in the Scurry jail on 1 August 2026. No contract and no per-diem rate is published by the county.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Terry D. Williams, Precinct 2 Doug Scott, Precinct 3 Shawn McCowen, Precinct 4 Jeff Mitchell; County Judge Dan Hicks.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Scurry 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 Scurry 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