The Detention Center
Titus County Jail
- Operated byTitus County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes - the Sheriff page lists "Titus County Jail" with its own phone and fax
- Jail phone903-577-7200; fax 903-572-2876
- Address304 S Van Buren Ave, Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455 (shared with the Sheriff's Office)
- Jail rosterThe county has a Jail Roster page, but it reads only "New Jail Roster coming soon!"
- What was triedhttps://www.co.titus.tx.us/page/co.sheriff ; /page/co.sheriff.jailroster ; /page/co.commissioners ; /page/coauditor.adoptedbudgets ; /page/co.directory
- Beds and population, 2026-08178 people held in 182 rated beds
Source: Titus County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
- Beds182 rated capacity (TCJS inmate population report, 1 August 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Chris Bragg
- Published as"Titus County Sheriff Chris Bragg"
- Office304 S Van Buren Ave, Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455
- Office phone903-572-6641; fax 903-577-8038
- RecordsAndrea Miller, records@co.titus.tx.us
- WarrantsSgt. Shawn Davis, warrants@co.titus.tx.us
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Titus County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Two Justices of the Peace cover four precincts: one judge sits for Precincts 1, 3 and 4 and a second for Precinct 2.
County Judge
- Kent Cooper
District Courts
- Angela Saucier (76th District Court)
- Michael P. Kopech (276th District Court)
Justices of the Peace
- Steve Agan (Precincts 1, 3 and 4)
- Irma Dunn (Precinct 2)
- 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
- Titus County has built a Jail Roster page and left it empty: the whole page reads "New Jail Roster coming soon!". That is the county's own promise, unkept, not an absence of the idea.
- TCJS reported the jail at 97.8% of rated capacity on 1 August 2026 - the fullest jail in this group.
- Adopted budgets are published back to FY2015; the county also posts financial statements and a debt transparency page.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Jeff Parchman, Precinct 2 Joe D. Mitchell, Precinct 3 Dana Applewhite, Precinct 4 Jimmy Parker.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Titus 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 Titus 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