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

The Detention Center

Young County Jail

Operated byYoung County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameYes — a dedicated 'County Jail' page titled Young County Jail
Jail address516 Fourth Street, Graham, TX 76450
Jail phoneNot found on the county jail page
Current jail listhttps://netweb.netdatacorp.com/NDLEC/bok/cgibokyoun.html — linked from the county jail page as 'Current Jail List'
VisitationTuesdays and Saturdays, timed slots by housing segment between 8:00 a.m. and 7:20 p.m.
Operator noteThe county site does not expressly state an operator; the jail is listed among county offices and under the Sheriff, with no contractor named
What was triedhttps://www.co.young.tx.us/page/young.CountyJail ; https://www.co.young.tx.us/page/young.Sheriff ; https://www.co.young.tx.us/page/young.Bond.Supervision
Beds and population, 2026-0878 people held in 144 rated beds

Source: Young County — County Jail · checked 2026-08-22

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

✓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 — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Young 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 Travis Babcock

OfficeYoung County Sheriff's Office
AddressYoung County Courthouse, 516 Fourth Street, Graham, TX 76450
Phone940-549-1555
Emailt.babcock@youngcounty.org
Published documentA Sheriff's Fees schedule is offered for download on the Sheriff page (civil process fees, not jail fees)

Still needed

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

Source: Young County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-22

The Judges

The county site lists Justices of the Peace for Precincts 1 and 3 only. Precinct 1 (Chelsea Moore) from https://www.co.young.tx.us/page/young.JP1 ; Precinct 3 (Joseph (Joey) Stewart, Olney) from https://www.co.young.tx.us/page/young.JP3. No County Court at Law is listed; county court civil, criminal and probate dockets sit with the County Judge. The 90th Judicial District covers Young and Stephens counties.

County Judge

Edwin (Win) S. Graham IV

90th Judicial District Court

Phillip C. Gregory

Justices of the Peace

Chelsea Moore — Precinct 1
Joseph (Joey) Stewart — Precinct 3

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

Roster marked yes: the county's own jail page publishes a live 'Current Jail List' link, not merely a VINELink referral.
Budget marked yes on the strength of the published adopted county budget (FY2026: https://www.co.young.tx.us/upload/common/2025/adopted_budget_2026.pdf). That PDF is a scanned image with no machine-readable text, so a distinct jail line item could not be confirmed by opening it.
The Bond Supervision page (https://www.co.young.tx.us/page/young.Bond.Supervision) is pretrial supervision contact information for the 90th Judicial District, not guidance on how to post bond — bond_info marked no.
Only one minute order document is posted (FY2021): https://www.co.young.tx.us/upload/page/10131/docs/CommissionersCourtMinuteOrderFY2021.pdf
No county-specific TCJS inspection report could be located; Young is not on the current TCJS non-compliant list.
Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Precinct 1 Stacy Creswell, Precinct 2 Scott Shook, Precinct 3 Alan Craig, Precinct 4 Jimmy Wiley.
County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats

The record

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

1 by suicide

0 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 arriving2

Most recent death on the state's record2023-03-21

People held, 2026-0878 in 144 beds

Share not convicted of the charge holding them84.6%

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 Young 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