The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byUpton County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameNo - the sheriff page names a 'Jail Administrator' and advertises 'Jailer' positions but never names a facility
- Jail addressNot found - only the Sheriff's Office address is published
- Jail phoneNot found - only the Sheriff's Office number (432) 693-2422 is published
- Inmate search linkThe sheriff page's 'Inmate Search' link points to inmateaid.com, a commercial third-party site, not a county roster
- What was triedhttps://www.co.upton.tx.us/page/upton.Sheriff ; https://www.co.upton.tx.us/ ; https://www.co.upton.tx.us/page/upton.FinancialTransparency
- Beds and population, 2026-0830 people held in 54 rated beds
Source: Upton County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Sara Brown
- Took officeAppointed November 27, 2023 (per county sheriff page)
- Office address1106 North Grand Street, P.O. Box 27, Rankin, TX 79778
- Phone(432) 693-2422
- Chief DeputyChristopher Fox
- Jail AdministratorDarcy Lynch
- SubstationMcCamey Substation, (432) 652-8222
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Upton County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Upton County has no County Court at Law. The four Justices of the Peace are the magistrates available at first appearance.
County Judge
- Dusty Kilgore
District Court (112th Judicial District)
- Pedro Gomez, Jr.
Justices of the Peace
- Judge Stephanie Brown (Precinct 1)
- Judge Vicky Jo Jones (Precinct 2)
- Judge Martha Silva (Precinct 3)
- Judge Corina Navarrete (Precinct 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 →
Notes on the record
- The county's own site never names a jail facility - the only traces of a jail are the 'Jail Administrator' title and 'Jailer' job postings on the sheriff page.
- The sheriff page's 'Inmate Search' link sends the public to inmateaid.com, a commercial site, rather than to a county-run roster. Counted as 'no' for roster.
- Budget counted as yes: Financial Transparency publishes adopted and proposed county budgets (FY2023-FY2027), check registers, and treasurer reports. No separate sheriff/detention line-item budget is broken out on the page.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Court meets the 1st and 3rd Mondays at 10:00 am.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Upton 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 Upton 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