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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byUvalde County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameNo - the sheriff page carries an address, a phone number and an email and nothing about a jail
Jail addressNot found on the county site
Jail phoneNot found on the county site
Jail-related links on county siteNone - no roster, no bond page, no visitation, no commissary
What was triedhttps://www.uvaldecounty.gov/uvalde-county-sheriff ; https://www.uvaldecounty.gov/uvalde-county-offices ; https://www.uvaldecounty.gov/
Beds and population, 2026-08180 people held in 218 rated beds

Source: Uvalde County - County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

0/10Closed

✗The jail is named — not published
✗Who is in custody — not published
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
✗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 Uvalde 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
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Ruben Nolasco

Office address339 King Fisher Ln., Box 1, Uvalde, TX 78801
Phone(830) 278-4111
Emailsheriff@uvaldecounty.gov

Still needed

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

Source: Uvalde County - County Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The county judge page sits at a URL naming William R. Mitchell but its published content reads 'ACTING COUNTY JUDGE, JERRY W. BATES'. Recorded as published. The JP list skips Precinct Five; Precincts One, Two, Three, Four and Six are the ones the county publishes.

County Judge

Jerry W. Bates (published as 'ACTING COUNTY JUDGE')

District Court (38th Judicial District)

Kelley T. Kimble

Justices of the Peace

Steven T. Kennedy (Precinct One)
Cynthia Casburn (Precinct Two)
Ernie Moore (Precinct Three)
Lalo Diaz (Precinct Four)
Roland Sanchez (Precinct Six)

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

Uvalde County's own website publishes nothing at all about its jail - no name, no roster, no capacity, no bond guidance, no fees. All ten checks are 'no'.
Agendas and minutes are published by fiscal year on the commissioners page (2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26) with older material in a linked Google Drive archive.
Uvalde County appears on the TCJS non-compliant jails list as 'Uvalde County (Special)' - a state finding, not a county publication, so it does not satisfy the 'inspections' check.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Court convenes the second and fourth Monday of each month.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

1 people have died in the Uvalde County jail since 2025.

0 by suicide

0 illness or medical

1 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them1 of 1

Deaths within the first week of arriving1

Most recent death on the state's record2025-08-13

People held, 2026-08180 in 218 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them49.4%

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 Uvalde 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