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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byWilson County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameNo - the Sheriff page refers only to 'Mail for Jail/Inmates' and links NCIC mail rules; no facility name appears
Jail addressNot found - only the Sheriff's Office address at 800 10th Street, Unit 2, Floresville is published
Jail phoneNot found
Custody lookupVINELink, a state/third-party service; the county publishes no roster of its own
Inmate mail ruleshttps://www.co.wilson.tx.us/upload/page/2315/NCIC Mail Rules.pdf
What was triedhttps://www.co.wilson.tx.us/page/wilson.sheriff ; https://www.co.wilson.tx.us/page/wilson.Budgets ; https://www.co.wilson.tx.us/page/wilson.Fees ; https://www.co.wilson.tx.us/page/wilson.WilsonCountyRenovationandConstructionProjects ; https://www.co.wilson.tx.us/page/wilson.WilsonCountyCriminalJusticeCommunityPlan - the site navigation has no jail page
Beds and population, 2026-08120 people held in 160 rated beds

Source: Wilson County - County Sheriff · 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Wilson 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 Jim Stewart

OfficeWilson County Sheriff's Office
Address800 10th Street, Unit 2, Floresville, TX 78114
Phone830-393-2535
Fax830-393-7402
Inmate mailWilson County Sheriff's Office, PO Box 591, Longview, Texas 75606 (NCIC scanning centre)

Still needed

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

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

The Judges

The county site lists no County Court at Law; the County Judge presides over the Wilson County Court. Each Justice of the Peace has a separate page (wilson.JusticeofthePeacePrecinct1 through 4); none mentions magistrate or bond-setting duties. The 81st and 218th District Courts are shared with neighbouring counties and are administered from Jourdanton.

County Judge

Hon. Henry L. Whitman, Jr.

81st District Court

Judge Jennifer Dillingham

218th District Court

Judge Russell H. Wilson

Justices of the Peace

Judge Jared Shaw - Precinct 1
Judge Kenneth "Buck" Griffin - Precinct 2
Judge Connie Terry - Precinct 3
Judge Monica Gutierrez - Precinct 4

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

Wilson County's site has a Sheriff page but no jail page; the facility is never named, its address and phone are never given, and no roster, capacity, visitation or fee information appears anywhere.
The county does publish Commissioners Court Rules of Procedure, a Criminal Justice Community Plan and a Renovation and Construction Projects page, but none of these was found to carry jail construction or cost figures.
No county-specific Texas Commission on Jail Standards inspection report URL could be located.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Gary Martin, Precinct 2 Russell A. King, Precinct 3 Jeffery Pierdolla, Precinct 4 John "Scott" Akin.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

2 people have died in the Wilson County jail since 2022.

0 by suicide

1 illness or medical

2 deaths in all, 2016 onward

Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them2 of 2

Deaths within the first week of arriving1

Most recent death on the state's record2025-04-21

People held, 2026-08120 in 160 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them76.7%

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 Wilson 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