Facilities · Jail
Hidalgo County Detention Center
Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Texas · capacity 1,232
Also reported as Hidalgo Adult Detention; Hidalgo County Adult Detention Center; Hidalgo County Jail.
37 deaths are recorded here, from 1987 to 2025; all by name.
- undetermined 34
- suicide 1
- other person 1
- neglect 1
The people
- Lievean Aguirre December 2, 2025
- Juan Andres Guerra June 24, 2024
- Oscar Lopez February 10, 2024
- Jaime Mendez December 1, 2023
- Jose Armando Hernandez October 1, 2023
- Melissa de la Cruz April 22, 2023
- Hugo Alberto Barbosa January 3, 2023
- Miguel Angel Garcia September 5, 2022
- Omar Garza June 13, 2022
- Jorge Baez September 28, 2021
- Ronald Gerald Guidry August 13, 2021
- Mary Ann Johnson June 20, 2021
- Alexandre Jon Beltran June 13, 2021
- Anthony Lee Villarreal October 10, 2020
- Jorge Gonzalez Zuniga July 15, 2020
- Adrian Placencia July 28, 2019
- Michael Herrera June 20, 2016
- Jesus Ibarra Morales July 1, 2015
- Juan Mendez December 1, 2014
- Armando Charles August 19, 2013
- Ramiro Hernandez December 19, 2012
- Jesse Guerrero July 20, 2011
- Noel Ochoa August 10, 2010
- Richard Scott Carper July 26, 2010
- Horacio Moranta April 15, 2010
- Michael Haulbert Pettus February 2, 2008
- Roel Gonzalez August 2, 2007
- Ramon Meza April 22, 2007
- Benny Chapman Harper September 1, 2006
- Noel Davila July 23, 2006
- Fabian L. Morato July 21, 2002
- Gilberto Castillo June 21, 2001
- Lorenzo P. Avalos October 10, 1999
- George Adelman August 25, 1995Died in prison
- Santiago C. Luna April 26, 1993
- Marcos A.c. Escalante August 17, 1992
- Baltazar S. Ramirez February 19, 1987
History and conditions
Research on this facility’s history, oversight and conditions is coming.