The Detention Center
Sherman County Jail
- Operated bySherman County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — the Sheriff page prints "Sherman County Jail" above the address
- Jail address701 N. 3rd ST, Stratford, TX 79084 (the same block as the courthouse, 701 N 3rd St)
- Jail phone806-366-5551
- What the Sheriff page does not carryNo roster, no bed count, no bond instructions, no phone/commissary rates, no visitation page
- What was triedhttps://www.shermancountytx.gov/page/Sheriff ; https://www.shermancountytx.gov/page/Budgets ; https://www.shermancountytx.gov/page/Commissioners.Court ; https://www.shermancountytx.gov/page/Sherman County Postings
- Beds and population, 2026-080 people held in 13 rated beds
Source: Sherman County, TX — Sheriff · 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ted Allen
- Published as"Sheriff Ted Allen"
- Mailing addressP. O. Box 526, Stratford, TX 79084
- Jail phone806-366-5551
- Fax806-366-3142
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Sherman County, TX — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Sherman County publishes one Justice of the Peace and does not state a precinct number for her. The JP is the magistrate who sets bond at first appearance in Texas.
County Judge
- Alicia Law
District Court (69th Judicial District)
- Kimberly L. (Kim) Allen
Justice of the Peace
- Brenda Acker
- 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
- Budget check verified by OCR: every Sherman County budget PDF is a scanned image with no machine-readable text, so the table of contents of BUDGET 2025-2026 (https://www.shermancountytx.gov/upload/page/0073/BUDGET 2025-2026.pdf) had to be read as an image. It lists "Jail Operation" and "County Sheriff" as separate departments.
- The Sheriff page is one screen: sheriff's name, two addresses, a phone and a fax. There is no jail sub-page anywhere on shermancountytx.gov.
- The Commissioners Court page names all four commissioners but links no agendas or minutes; agendas appear under the County Calendar / Postings page.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Bryan Mungia, Precinct 2 Terry Mathews, Precinct 3 Jeff Crippen, Precinct 4 David Davis; County Judge Alicia Law.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Sherman 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