The Detention Center
Webb County Jail
- Operated byWebb County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes - published as 'Webb County Jail' in the county's own 'Webb County Jail Inmate and Bond Search' link
- Jail addressNot published on the county sheriff page
- Jail phoneNot published on the county sheriff page
- Roster and bond searchhttp://publicaccess.webbcountytx.gov/BondSearch/default.aspx - a combined inmate and bond search on the county's own domain
- Booking searchhttps://www.webbcountytx.gov/Sheriff/BookingJailSearch
- Beds and population, 2026-08479 people held in 570 rated beds
Source: Webb County Sheriff · 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 — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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 Martin Cuellar
- StatusStill in office as of this research. Indicted on federal fraud charges in January 2026; a citizen petition seeking his removal was filed in May 2026 and a hearing was set for July 2026
- Named on county siteNo - the Webb County sheriff page publishes links and an address but does not name the sheriff
- In office since2008; current term ends December 31, 2028 (per Ballotpedia)
- Office address902 Victoria, Laredo, Texas 78040 (per a county-published WCSO document)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Ballotpedia - Martin Cuellar · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Webb County's website is inconsistent about naming its own judges. The County Judge page itself publishes no name - Tano E. Tijerina had to be recovered from the Staff subpage. Three benches could not be attributed from the county site at all: County Court at Law I, the 49th District Court, and Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 Place 2. Rather than guess, they are recorded as 'Not found'. Individual JP names were taken from each court's own page: JP4 from https://www.webbcountytx.gov/JP4/Staff/, JP3 from https://www.webbcountytx.gov/JP3/, JP2 Pl.2 from https://www.webbcountytx.gov/JP2PL2/Biography/, JP1 Pl.1 from https://www.webbcountytx.gov/JP1PL1/, 341st from https://www.webbcountytx.gov/DC341st/, 406th from https://www.webbcountytx.gov/DC406th/Biography/default.aspx.
County Judge
- Tano E. Tijerina
County Courts at Law
- Not found (County Court at Law I - the county site names court staff but not the judge)
- Victor Villarreal (County Court at Law II)
District Courts
- Not found (49th District Court - no judge named on the county site)
- Monica Z. Notzon (111th District Court)
- Beckie Palomo (341st District Court)
- David E. Garcia (406th District Court)
Justices of the Peace
- Juan Paz (Precinct 1, Place 1)
- Not found (Precinct 1, Place 2 - no judge named on the county page)
- Roberto "Bobby" Quintana (Precinct 2, Place 1)
- Danny Dominguez (Precinct 2, Place 2)
- Salvador Johnson (Precinct 3)
- Ramiro Veliz (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
- Webb is the only county in this group that publishes anything PREA-related on its own site: a PREA third-party reporting form PDF, a PREA Third Party Reporting Form page and a 'PREA Annual Reports' navigation item on the sheriff page.
- The 'PREA Annual Reports' link resolves back to the sheriff's PREA landing page rather than to dated audit reports, so the PREA pass rests on the published third-party reporting form, not on an audit result.
- Bond counted as yes: the county runs a combined 'Webb County Jail Inmate and Bond Search' on its own public-access domain, and maintains a Bail Bond Board page at https://www.webbcountytx.gov/BailBondBoard.
- Sheriff Martin Cuellar is not named anywhere on the Webb County sheriff page. Given that he was under federal indictment and facing a removal petition during 2026, the absence of any published identification of the county's own sheriff is itself worth recording.
- The county publishes an EEOP Utilization Report for the Sheriff's Office (February 2024), but no detention budget, no capacity figure, no deaths in custody and no inter-agency housing contracts or rates.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
9 people have died in the Webb 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 Webb 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