Tarrant County

The Detention Center

Tarrant County Corrections Center (with the Lon Evans Corrections Center; the county calls the whole system the Tarrant County Jail)

• Operated byTarrant County Sheriff's Office, Detention Bureau
• County publishes a jail nameYes — "Tarrant County Corrections Center" and "Lon Evans Correction Center" on the Detention Bureau page
• Corrections Center address100 N. Lamar, Fort Worth, TX 76196
• Number of facilitiesFive — the county names only two of them
• Capacity"approximately 5,000 inmates"
• Central intakeAll inmates are received at the Corrections Center, where they are booked, photographed and enrolled by iris
• Food serviceAbout 10,250 hot meals a day from a 14,000 sq ft kitchen inside Lon Evans, feeding all five facilities
• Jail Industries15-18 female volunteer trustees inside the Corrections Center sew mattresses, mattress covers and inmate clothing
• Bond deskTarrant County Corrections Center, 100 N. Lamar, open 24 hours; full bond amount required
• What was triedhttps://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff.html ; https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff/detention-bureau.html ; https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff/detention-bureau/bond-information.html ; https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff/detention-bureau/inmate-phone-service.html ; https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff/detention-bureau/inmate-money-deposits.html ; https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff/detention-bureau/daily-bond-reports.html ; https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/sheriff/sheriff-s-administration/287-g--meeting-notices.html
• Beds and population, 2026-084,229 people held in 5,015 rated beds

Source: Tarrant County — Detention Bureau · checked 2026-08-22

• ✓The jail is named
• ✓Who is in custody
• ✓Beds and daily population
• ✓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
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Tarrant 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 builtLon Evans Corrections Center certified October 2012; the Detention Bureau states it has passed Texas Commission on Jail Standards certification every year since 1995
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• BedsApproximately 5,000 across five facilities; the Lon Evans Corrections Center alone is 207,700 square feet over five stories

The Sheriff

Sheriff Bill E. Waybourn

• Published as"Sheriff - Bill E. Waybourn" in the county's elected-officials menu
• In office since2017
• Detention Bureau phone817-884-3000
• Detention Bureau staffingApproximately 1,000 detention officers and peace officers
• BookingsApproximately 35,000 people booked in a year

Source: Tarrant County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Tarrant County also runs separate Magistrate Courts (https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/criminal-courts/magistrate-courts.html), which is where most first appearances and bond settings happen; the county does not publish a roster of magistrates on that page. All eleven felony courts and all ten county criminal courts sit at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center, 401 W. Belknap, Fort Worth. Civil county courts at law, family, probate, juvenile and IV-D courts are listed separately and are not included above.

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 →