The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byNot stated on the county website
- County publishes a jail nameNo - the Sheriff page carries only a name, phone and public-information form. There is no jail, inmate, visitation or bond page anywhere on the county site.
- Jail existsYes - TCJS lists Terrell County with a rated capacity of 8 beds
- Jail addressNot found
- Jail phoneNot found (county lists only the Sheriff at 432-345-2525 and courthouse 432-345-2421)
- What was triedhttps://www.co.terrell.tx.us/ ; /page/terrell.Sheriff ; /page/terrell.Commissioners.Court ; /page/terrell.County.Court ; /page/terrell.Budgets ; /page/terrell.Minutes ; /page/terrell.Contact
- Beds and population, 2026-083 people held in 8 rated beds
Source: Terrell 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
- Beds8 rated capacity (TCJS inmate population report, 1 August 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Thaddeus C. Cleveland
- Published as"Terrell County Sheriff/Tax Assessor-Collector - Thaddeus C. Cleveland"
- Holds two officesSheriff and Tax Assessor-Collector, as published by the county
- Phone432-345-2525
- Email publishedthad.cleveland@co.terrell.tx.us
- Courthouse105 E Hackberry St., Sanderson, TX 79848
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Terrell County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county site files its Justice of the Peace page under the label "County Court" (/page/terrell.County.Court). Both district judges sit in Del Rio (Val Verde County) and ride the district into Sanderson.
County Judge
- Dale Carruthers
District Courts
- Roland Andrade (63rd Judicial District)
- Robert Cadena (83rd Judicial District)
Justices of the Peace
- Corina Arredondo (Precinct At-Large)
- 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
- Terrell County publishes nothing at all about its jail on its own website - no name, no address, no phone, no roster, no bond guidance. The county does post commissioners court minutes back to 2021 and budgets back to 2012.
- Capacity figure is state-published (TCJS), not county-published.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Adam Johnson, Precinct 2 Lupe Garza, Precinct 3 Ele Chris Hagelstein, Precinct 4 Gene Chavez.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Terrell 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 Terrell 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