The Detention Center
Victoria County Jail
- Operated byVictoria County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes - published as 'Victoria County Jail' in the jail mailing instructions
- Jail address101 N Glass Street, Victoria, Texas 77901
- Jail phoneNot separately published; non-emergency line is (361) 575-0651
- Commissary and phone depositsCorrect Solutions Group, 1-877-618-3516, Facility ID 24101, or www.csgpay.com
- Beds and population, 2026-08327 people held in 532 rated beds
Source: Victoria County - Jail Visitation, Mail, Commissary & Telephone · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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
- ✗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 Justin Marr
- Named on county siteThe sheriff's home page refers only to 'Sheriff Marr'; the full name appears in a county-published Detention Officer position profile
- Non-emergency phone(361) 575-0651
- AgencyVictoria County Sheriff's Office - described by the county as 'a full-service law enforcement agency and detention facility', operating since 1836
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Victoria County Sheriff's Office - Detention Officer position profile · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Victoria County's own website does not publish a page for its district courts or name its district judges; only the County Judge, the two County Courts at Law and the four Justices of the Peace are published.
County Judge
- Ben Zeller
County Courts at Law
- Travis H. Ernst (County Court at Law 1)
- Daniel Gilliam (County Court at Law 2)
Justices of the Peace
- MaryAnn Rivera (Precinct 1)
- Rodney Durham (Precinct 2)
- Robert Whitaker (Precinct 3)
- John Miller (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 →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The inmate locator runs on the county's own domain (pro-pa.vctx.org), which is stronger than the third-party roster links several counties in this group use.
- Bond counted as yes on the strength of the county's published list of approved bail bond companies plus a separate Pretrial Bond department page (https://www.vctx.org/page/pretrial.home).
- Fees counted as 'no': the county explains how to deposit money for commissary and telephone through Correct Solutions Group but publishes no actual per-minute, per-visit or commissary rates.
- The county site does not name its own sheriff on the sheriff's home page - only 'Sheriff Marr'. The full name had to be recovered from a county-published job posting PDF.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Court typically meets at 10:00 a.m. every Monday at the Victoria County Courthouse, Rm. 241.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
9 people have died in the Victoria County jail 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 Victoria 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