The Detention Center
Trinity County Jail
- Operated byTrinity County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes - the Sheriff's Jail page is headed "Trinity County Jail"
- Address162 West 1st St, Groveton, TX 75845; P.O. Box 457
- Jail AdministratorLeann Sikes
- Inmates held off-siteThe county's Current Inmates page lists phone numbers for Houston, Milam, San Jacinto, Bosque, Somervell, Waller and Grimes county jails, where Trinity inmates are held
- Commissary / phonesdeposits.jailatm.com for commissary; customer.cidnet.net for inmate phones - no rates published
- What was triedhttps://www.co.trinity.tx.us/page/trinity.Sheriff.Jail ; /page/trinity.Sheriff.Inmates ; /page/trinity.Sheriff ; /page/trinity.FinanceReports ; /page/trinity.Agendas2022
- Beds and population, 2026-082 people held in 7 rated beds
Source: Trinity County - Jail · 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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds7 rated capacity (TCJS inmate population report, 1 August 2026)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Woody Wallace
- Published as"Sheriff Woody Wallace"
- Physical address162 West 1st St, Groveton, TX 75845
- Mailing addressP.O. Box 95, Groveton, TX 75845
- Phone936.642.1424
- Jail AdministratorLeann Sikes
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Trinity County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The 411th District Court page still carries the name of a former judge (Elizabeth E. Coker) above the current judge, John Wells, III.
County Judge
- Danny Martin
District Courts
- Travis E. Kitchens, Jr. (258th Judicial District)
- John Wells, III (411th Judicial District)
Justices of the Peace
- Mary Wallace (Pct. 1)
- Ricky Hortman (Pct. 2)
- Keith Johnson (Pct. 3)
- Richard Steptoe (Pct. 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
- The Trinity County Jail is rated for 7 beds. The county's own inmate page therefore lists seven other counties' jails - Houston, Milam, San Jacinto, Bosque, Somervell, Waller and Grimes - as the places its prisoners are actually held. No per-diem rate for any of those arrangements is published, so contracts is marked no.
- The Current Inmates page auto-updates every 60 seconds and is searchable - a genuinely live roster for a county this size.
- FY2025-26 approved budget and FY2027 proposed budget are published as PDFs under /upload/page/3743/.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Tommy Park, Precinct 2 Mike Loftin, Precinct 3 Neal Smith, Precinct 4 Steven Truss.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Trinity 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 Trinity 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