The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byStonewall County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo — but the Sheriff's published email address is jailadmin@stonewallcountytx.org, which is the only acknowledgement on the site that a jail exists
- Budget staffingThe adopted budget's "County Sheriff Office Salary" block funds Sheriff, Chief Deputy Sheriff and three Dispatcher/Jailer positions
- Sheriff salary line$75,000 in both the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 adopted budgets
- What was triedhttps://www.stonewallcounty.org/page/stonewall.Sheriff ; https://www.stonewallcounty.org/page/stonewall.Budgets ; https://www.stonewallcounty.org/page/stonewall.Public.Notices.Calendar ; https://www.stonewallcounty.org/page/stonewall.Justice
- Beds and population, 2026-081 people held in 10 rated beds
Source: Stonewall County — 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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff William "Bill" Mullen
- Published as"Sheriff William ‘Bill’ Mullen"
- Mailing addressP.O. Box 388, Aspermont, Texas 79502
- Phone940-989-3333
- Fax940-989-3334
- Published emailjailadmin@stonewallcountytx.org — the only contact address given for the Sheriff is the jail administrator's
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Stonewall County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Both the County Judge's page and the Justice of the Peace's page post the same "Notice of Magistrates" document (/upload/page/9134/notice_of_magistrate.docx and /upload/page/9138/notice_of_magistrate.docx), which is how the county publishes who magistrates. The 39th District Court sits at the Haskell County Courthouse, 1 Avenue D, Haskell.
County Judge
- Ronnie Moorhead
District Court (39th Judicial District)
- Shane Hadaway
Justice of the Peace
- Darla Pearson
- 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: the 2024-2025 Adopted Budget (https://www.stonewallcounty.org/upload/page/9151/2024/20242025_budget.pdf) is a 26-page scan with no machine-readable text. Its index lists no departmental sections at all — only Required Cover Sheet, Recapitulations, Road and Bridge, General Fund Revenue, General Fund Salary, General Fund Expenditures, Grant Funds, Airport Fund and Pre-Trial Diversion Fund. The "County Sheriff Office Salary" block, and with it the Dispatcher/Jailer positions, is buried inside General Fund Salary.
- The Budgets page's "2021-2022 Proposed Budget" link is broken in an unusual way: it points at https://www.harrisoncountytexas.gov/upload/page/9151/20212022proposedbudget 7-29-21.pdf — another Texas county's domain, with Stonewall's own page ID. Both counties use the same Texas Association of Counties template.
- The most recent budget the county publishes is 2024-2025; no 2025-2026 budget is posted as of 22 August 2026.
- The Sheriff page has no roster, no visitation information, no bond information and no jail page. The only sign of the jail on the whole site is the jailadmin@ email address.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Charles "Shorty" Martin, Precinct 2 Gerry Messick, Precinct 3 Ike Mitchel, Precinct 4 Gary Myers; County Judge Ronnie Moorhead.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Stonewall 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 Stonewall 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