The Detention Center
Tyler County Jail
- Operated byTyler County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- County publishes a jail nameYes - the Jail Division page names the Tyler County Jail and publishes its capacity
- Capacity published by the county43 inmates, plus temporary housing cells
- Address702 N. Magnolia, Woodville, TX 75979
- Corrections phone(409) 283-6331
- VisitationSundays and Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Tyler County Justice Center; sign in by 3:30 p.m.; one visit per inmate per day
- Commissary / phonesMoney orders for commissary accepted at the Justice Center; phone accounts through Infinity Networks, 888-459-4521 - no rates published
- What was triedhttps://www.co.tyler.tx.us/page/tyler.Sheriff-Jail ; /page/tyler.Sheriff ; /page/tyler.Budgets ; /page/tyler.Commissioners.Court ; /page/tyler.Justice ; /page/tyler.District.Court
- Beds and population, 2026-0832 people held in 43 rated beds
Source: Tyler County - Jail Division · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
- Beds43 - published by the county on its Jail Division page, and matching the TCJS rated capacity of 43 on 1 August 2026
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bryan Weatherford
- Published as"Sheriff Bryan Weatherford"
- Office702 N. Magnolia, Woodville, TX 75979
- Non-emergency phone(409) 283-2172
- Corrections Division phone(409) 283-6331; fax (409) 283-8656
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Tyler County - Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
All four JP courts sit at 203 West Dogwood St., Woodville, and run Monday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., closed Fridays. The county's District Court page carries only an address - no judge is named on the county site.
County Judge
- Milton Powers
District Court
- Not found - the county's District Court page publishes no judge's name
Justices of the Peace
- Tina L. Self (Pct. 1)
- Ken Jobe (Pct. 2)
- Michael Hughes (Pct. 3)
- James "Jim" D. Moore (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
- Tyler County is the only county in this group that publishes its own bed count. The figure it gives, 43, matches the TCJS rated capacity exactly.
- For inmate lookup the county sends people to VINELink (https://vinelink.com/#/home/site/44900) rather than publishing a roster itself, so roster is marked no.
- The FY2026 adopted budget PDF is linked from the homepage: /upload/page/3281/Adopted%202026%20Annual%20Tyler%20County%20Budget%20Updated%20091625000001.pdf
- Commissioners court agendas are at http://tyler.easydocs.us/agenda/ and meetings are recorded on the county YouTube channel.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Joe Blacksher, Precinct 2 Doug Hughes, Precinct 3 Mike Marshall, Precinct 4 Charles "Buck" Hudson. County Clerk Janet Brown sits ex officio.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Tyler 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 Tyler 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