The Detention Center
Williamson County Jail
- Operated byWilliamson County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Bureau
- County publishes a jail nameYes - the Corrections Bureau page and the county FAQ both use 'Williamson County Jail'
- Jail address306 W 4th Street, Georgetown, TX 78626
- Jail phone512-943-1365
- Daily populationApproximately 600 inmates (Corrections Bureau page)
- Bed space1,104 (Corrections Bureau page, following the 2003 direct-supervision expansion)
- Corrections Bureau budgetPublished on the county site as a 'thirty-two-million-dollar annual budget'
- Jail records searchhttps://judicialrecords.wilco.org/PublicAccess/JailingSearch.aspx?ID=400
- Inmate mailScanned by NCIC; postal mail to NCIC-Williamson County Jail, PO Box 591, Longview, TX 75606; legal mail direct to P.O. Box 2119, Georgetown, TX 78627
- DepositsOnline, 866-345-1884, lobby kiosk, or Inmate Trust Fund, P.O. Box 1939, Georgetown, TX 78627 - no fee schedule published
- Video / messaging vendorsAccess Corrections and NCIC are named; no rates are published
- 287(g)The county publishes a long 287(g) FAQ; it reports averaging 35 to 40 inmates daily on an ICE hold, about 7 percent of the daily population
- Beds and population, 2026-08654 people held in 1,104 rated beds
Source: Williamson County - Corrections Bureau · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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 builtA new Direct Supervision facility opened in late 2003
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds1,104 bed spaces; daily population approximately 600
Since then
- Direct Supervision expansion completed late 2003, which the county says brought bed space to 1,104
The Sheriff
Sheriff Matthew Lindemann
- OfficeWilliamson County Sheriff's Office
- Sheriff's Office pagehttps://www.wilcotx.gov/637/Sheriffs-Office
- Jail information line512-943-1365
- Main office512-943-1300
- NoteNamed on the county's published list of Local Government Officers and again as a member of the county Bail Bond Board
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Williamson County - Conflict of Interest (Local Government Officers) · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
The county's Government page states plainly that 'Justices of the Peace serve both as Judges and Magistrates.' The full slate of officeholders above is taken from the county's own published list of Local Government Officers.
County Judge
- Steven Snell
County Courts at Law
- Brandy Halford - County Court at Law One
- Laura Barker - County Court at Law Two
- Doug Arnold - County Court at Law Three
- John McMaster - County Court at Law Four
- William Ward - County Court at Law Five
District Courts
- Donna King - 26th District Court
- Stacey Mathews - 277th District Court
- Sarah Bruchmiller - 368th District Court
- Ryan D. Larson - 395th District Court
- Betsy Lambeth - 425th District Court
- Terence Davis - 480th District Court
- Sarah Moore - 512th District Court
Justices of the Peace
- KT Musselman - Precinct 1
- Angela Williams - Precinct 2
- Evelyn McLean - Precinct 3
- Rhonda Redden - 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
- Williamson is the only county in this group that publishes both a bed count and a daily population figure, and the only one that publishes a dollar figure for the Corrections Bureau's annual budget.
- The Bail Bond Board page lists the board's members and meeting schedule, and the Corrections FAQ answers 'Where can I find an approved Bondsman?' with a link to the board's monthly list of licensed bondsmen.
- No death-in-custody report, PREA audit result or independent inspection result is published on the county site.
- The county describes transporting and picking up inmates from other counties and states but publishes no contract or per-diem rate.
- Phone, video-visit and commissary vendors are named (NCIC, Access Corrections, GettingOut) but no rates are published.
- No county-specific Texas Commission on Jail Standards inspection report URL could be located.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Terry Cook, Precinct 2 Cynthia Long, Precinct 3 Valerie Covey, Precinct 4 Russ Boles. The court's published duties begin with 'Establish a courthouse and jail'.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
7 people have died in the Williamson County jail since 2018.
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 Williamson 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