Upshur County, Texas — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Upshur County Jail

Operated byUpshur County Sheriff's Office, Jail Division
County publishes a jail nameYes, but indirectly - the Sheriff page itself says only "Jail Division"; the name "Upshur County Jail" appears in the Daily Jail Report PDF the county posts on that page
LocationUpshur County Justice Center, 405 North Titus, Gilmer, TX 75644
Phone903-843-2541
Daily Jail ReportA 58-page "Jail Population Report for Public Access" PDF listing every inmate with booking date, location, SO number, charge, court and bond amount
Inmate searchhttps://upshur-so-tx.zuercherportal.com/
CommissaryThe county publishes Sheriff's Office Commissary Audits (a financial audit), not commissary prices
What was triedhttps://www.countyofupshur.com/page/sheriff ; https://upshur-so-tx.zuercherportal.com/ ; /page/commissioners_court ; /page/Proposed%20and%20Adopted%20Budgets ; /page/agendas ; /page/Sheriff%e2%80%99s%20Office%20Commissary
Beds and population, 2026-08125 people held in 226 rated beds

Source: Upshur County - Sheriff's Office · 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Upshur 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
Beds226 rated capacity (TCJS inmate population report, 1 August 2026)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Larry Webb

Published as"Larry Webb, Sheriff"
LocationUpshur County Justice Center, 405 North Titus, Gilmer, TX 75644
Phone903-843-2541; fax 903-843-2368
Hours8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
DivisionsSheriff Office, Jail Division and Dispatch

Still needed

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

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

The Judges

The county's own JP page states that a Justice of the Peace "may issue warrants for arrest ... conduct Administrative Magistrate Hearings, including bail settings, arraignments" - the county says plainly that its JPs set bail.

County Judge

Todd Tefteller

District Court

Dean Fowler (115th Judicial District)

Justices of the Peace

Wyone Manes (Pct. 1)
Lyle Potter (Pct. 2)
Rhonda Welch (Pct. 3)
Anthony Betterton (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 Daily Jail Report the county posts is unusually detailed - it lists every person in custody with charge and bond amount - but it is a static PDF dated 10 March 2026, and it gives no total count and no bed capacity.
Both proposed and adopted budgets are published back to 2010-2011; commissioners court agendas and county clerk minutes are separately published.
The county publishes Sheriff's Office Commissary Audits, which is a financial control document, not a price list, so fees is marked no.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Gene Dolle, Precinct 2 Dustin Nicholson, Precinct 3 Michael Ashley, Precinct 4 Jay Miller. Court meets on the 15th and the last working day of each month at 10 a.m.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

3 people have died in the Upshur County jail since 2018.

1 by suicide

2 illness or medical

3 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them3 of 3

Deaths within the first week of arriving1

Most recent death on the state's record2022-04-05

People held, 2026-08125 in 226 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them65.6%

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 Upshur 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