Tom Green County, Texas — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Tom Green County Detention Center

Operated byTom Green County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes - "Tom Green County Detention Center" on the Sheriff's Office Jail Information page, which the county homepage links to
Address4382 N US Highway 277, San Angelo, TX 76905
Phone325-659-6597
Face-to-face visitsSign-up 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 6:30-7:30 p.m.; visits 9-11 a.m. and 7-9 p.m., 20 minutes each
Online visitation rate$0.35 per minute through NCIC, published on the Jail Information page
CommissaryOrders processed Mondays; deposits by money order, touchpayonline.com, lobby kiosk or 866-204-1603
BondCash bonds in exact amount; over $5,000 must be cashier's check; bonding window and lobby kiosk take cash, credit and debit
What was triedhttps://www.tomgreencountysheriff.org/jail-information ; /inmate-roster/disclaim ; /services ; https://www.tomgreencountytx.gov/page/ft.FinancialTransparency ; /page/cc.CommissionersHome
Beds and population, 2026-08489 people held in 552 rated beds

Source: Tom Green County Sheriff's Office - Jail Information · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

5/10Partial

✓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
✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Tom Green 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
Beds552 rated capacity (TCJS inmate population report, 1 August 2026)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff J. Nick Hanna

Published as"Sheriff J. Nick Hanna" on the Sheriff's Office site
Detention Center4382 N US Highway 277, San Angelo, TX 76905
Detention Center phone325-659-6597
County courthouse112 W. Beauregard, San Angelo, TX 76903

Still needed

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

Source: Tom Green County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

Precincts 1, 2 and 4 share one page; Precinct 3 has its own (/page/jp.JP3Homepage). The county also runs a Bail Bond Board with its own agenda, minutes and forms pages.

County Judge

Lane Carter

County Courts at Law

Ben Nolen (County Court at Law)
Andrew Graves (County Court at Law 2)

District Courts

Carmen Symes Dusek (51st Judicial District)
Gonzalo Rios (119th Judicial District)
Jay K. Weatherby (340th Judicial District)
Brad Goodwin (391st Judicial District)

Justices of the Peace

Susan Werner (Pct. 1)
Thomas Daniels (Pct. 2)
Stacye Speck (Pct. 3)
Randy Harris (Pct. 4)

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 Financial Transparency page publishes approved budgets FY2022-FY2026, a proposed FY2027 budget, audited financial statements FY2021-FY2025, tax rates and the recorded vote adopting the FY2026 budget.
The Jail Information page is the most complete single jail page in this group: visitation, dress code, commissary, telephone and bond procedure in one place. It still publishes no bed count and no daily population.
Capacity figure is state-published (TCJS), not county-published.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Ralph Hoelscher, Precinct 2 Chad Decker, Precinct 3 Rick Bacon, Precinct 4 Shawn Nanny.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

9 people have died in the Tom Green County jail since 2017.

1 by suicide

4 illness or medical

9 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them7 of 9

Deaths within the first week of arriving5

Most recent death on the state's record2024-12-25

People held, 2026-08489 in 552 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them71.4%

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 Tom Green 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