Terry County, Texas — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Terry County Jail Division

Operated byTerry County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes - but only on the Sheriff's Office site, which heads the page "Terry County Jail Division" and calls the building "the Detention Center". The county's own co.terry.tx.us Sheriff page names no jail.
Jail address1311 Tahoka Road, Brownfield, TX 79316
Jail phone806.637.2212 (24 hours)
Holds for other agenciesThe Jail Division page says it houses people "held for other agencies" - no agencies or rates are named
Inmate rosterhttps://www.terrycountysherifftx.org/roster.php (plus a released-inmates view)
What was triedhttps://www.terrycountysherifftx.org/jail-division ; /roster.php ; /site-map ; https://www.co.terry.tx.us/page/terry.sheriff ; /page/terry.Approved.Budgets
Beds and population, 2026-0888 people held in 174 rated beds

Source: Terry County Sheriff's Office - Jail Division · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Terry 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 builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds174 rated capacity (TCJS inmate population report, 1 August 2026)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Timothy Click

Published as"Sheriff Timothy Click" on both the county site and the Sheriff's Office site
Sheriff's Office1311 Tahoka Road, Brownfield, TX 79316; P.O. Box 1106
Phone(806) 637-2212 (24 hours); county page also lists (806) 637-7230
Fax(806) 637-9424

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Terry County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The JP page states the office "Performs magistrate duties" and "Conducts inquests". Terry County publishes a single JP.

County Judge

Tony Serbantez

District Court

John A. Didway (121st Judicial District)

Justice of the Peace

Angie P Garza

Still needed

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

The Sheriff's Office site footer links to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, but publishes no inspection result of its own.
The jail is named only on the Sheriff's Office site; the county's own co.terry.tx.us pages never name it.
Capacity figure is state-published (TCJS), not county-published.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. The county's Commissioners Court page names no commissioners - it carries only a link to agendas and minutes.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

2 people have died in the Terry County jail since 2019.

1 by suicide

0 illness or medical

2 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them2 of 2

Most recent death on the state's record2021-02-26

People held, 2026-0888 in 174 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them60.2%

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 Terry 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