The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byThis county has no jail
- County publishes a jail nameNo - the county site has no jail page at all, and the Sheriff page mentions no jail
- Does a jail existNo - the TCJS inmate population report lists the county as "Throckmorton (no jail)" with capacity 0
- Historic jailThe 1890s Throckmorton County Courthouse and Jail is a listed historic property, not an operating facility
- What was triedhttps://www.throckmortoncounty.org/ ; /page/throckmorton.sheriff ; /page/throckmorton.commissionerscourt ; /page/throckmorton.justice ; /page/throckmorton.budgets ; /page/throckmorton.ccminutes
- What the state reportsThe Texas Commission on Jail Standards lists no county jail here.
Source: Throckmorton 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
- BedsNone - TCJS lists "Throckmorton (no jail)", capacity 0
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Glen Whitfield
- Published as"Sheriff Glen Whitfield"
- Office108 Pogue St., P.O. Box 578, Throckmorton, TX 76483
- Phone940.849.8855; fax 940.849.8856
- HoursMonday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Throckmorton County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
One Justice of the Peace serves all four precincts. The 39th District Judge sits in Haskell.
County Judge
- Caleb Hodges
District Court
- Shane Hadaway (39th Judicial District)
Justice of the Peace
- Bobby Thompson (Precincts 1-4)
- 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
- Throckmorton County operates no jail, so nine of the ten checks are structurally not applicable rather than withheld. People arrested in the county are held elsewhere; the county site does not say where.
- The county's published budgets stop at 2024 (2023 and 2024 only).
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Casey Wells, Precinct 2 Kasey Hibbitts, Precinct 3 Greg Brockman, Precinct 4 Klay Mitchell.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Throckmorton 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