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Mason County packet includes juvenile detention contracts with Grayson and Taylor counties; per-diem rates, PREA and billing terms spelled out
Summary
Mason County’s Aug. 11 packet includes draft agreements for juvenile detention placements with Grayson County (per-diem $200 pre-adjudication, $300 post-adjudication) and Taylor County’s Juvenile Justice Center (daily rate $250). Contracts set terms for transport, billing, PREA compliance, reporting, and termination.
Mason County’s Commissioners Court packet for its Aug. 11, 2025 meeting included proposed detention and residential services agreements with Grayson County Juvenile Services and the Taylor County Juvenile Justice Center that, if executed, would govern juvenile placements and billing for the 2025–26 contract year.
The Grayson County Residential Services Agreement sets per-diem rates at $200 for pre-adjudication detention and $300 for post-adjudication secure correctional placements and states the contract term begins Sept. 1, 2024 and automatically renews for one-year terms unless one party gives written notice at least 30 days before expiration. The document requires written acceptance or denial for placements, places responsibility for transportation on the sending county unless other arrangements are made, and requires monthly progress reports and invoices submitted within 10 days after the end of each month with payment due within 30 days.
The Taylor County contract specifies the Taylor County Juvenile Justice Center will provide 24-hour program components including education, recreation and counseling and lists a daily rate of $250 per occupied bed space. The Taylor contract sets billing and payment procedures, requires the facility to comply with Texas Juvenile Justice Department standards and the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), and obligates the contracting county to cooperate with state audits and monitoring.
Both agreements include standard contract provisions such as termination clauses (30 days’ notice without cause), auditing and record-retention requirements (records retained for seven years), and indemnity/insurance language. The Grayson contract also notes that children placed in a secure correctional facility are no longer eligible for Medicaid and that the county will reimburse medical and other additional costs outside the per-diem.
The packet identifies local contacts for contract administration but does not record any formal vote or execution on Aug. 11. The Grayson agreement names Greg Sumpter as a contact at Grayson County Juvenile Services; the Taylor contract materials list Phil Crowley as Taylor County judge and Allison A. Stafford as chief juvenile probation officer at TCJJC. Mason County’s contracting contact is listed as the Mason County Juvenile Department (Teri Trull, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer) and the meeting contact for the agenda is Elizabeth Cano.
Next steps in the process—formal approval, signature and any required budget appropriation—are not recorded in the packet text and would require action by the Commissioners Court at a later meeting or by county staff to execute the agreements.
