Alfalfa County, Oklahoma — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byAlfalfa County Sheriff's Office (the county sheriff page recites the statutory duty that the sheriff 'has power and authority to operate the County Jail', but the county never names the facility)
County publishes a jail nameNo — the county site has no jail, detention or inmate page
Sheriff's office address300 S. Grand Ave, Suite 1, Cherokee, OK 73728
Phone / fax580.596.3269 / 580.596.2244
Office hours9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
What was triedFull link crawl of alfalfa.okcounties.org (offices, departments, meetings, fees, where-do-i); Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association Alfalfa page (lists no agency website); web search for an Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office site.

Source: Alfalfa County — official source · checked August 21, 2026

Transparency rating

0/10Closed

✗The jail is named — not published
✗Who is in custody — not published
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
✗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 Alfalfa County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked August 21, 2026. 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 Gary Mast

NoteConfirmed independently by the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association at . County page also names Undersheriff Dan Muldoon, Administrative Deputy Lydia Wilson, Sgt. Deputy Ryan McNeil, and Deputies Chris McNeil, Taten Walker and Jayton Martin.

Still needed

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

Source: Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office · checked August 21, 2026

The Judges

Oklahoma elects its district judges in nonpartisan elections. District and associate district judges set bond and decide who waits in this jail.

District Court, Judicial District 4

Hon. Loren Angle — Associate District Judge, Alfalfa County
Hon. Justin Eilers — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Woodward County Courthouse, 1600 Main Street, Woodward)
Hon. Jason Seigars — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Garfield County Courthouse, 114 W. Broadway Ave., Enid)
Hon. Paul Woodward — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Garfield County Courthouse, 114 West Broadway, Enid)

Alfalfa County Courthouse, 300 S. Grand, Ste. 8, Cherokee, OK 73728 — (580) 596-2224.

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 August 21, 2026

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

Alfalfa County publishes a functioning county website (ACCO/KellPro-hosted at alfalfa.okcounties.org) with current agendas and minutes, but zero jail disclosure — it never names the facility, publishes no roster, no capacity, no budget, no bond or fee information.
There is no Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office website; the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association entry lists no agency site.
STATE, NOT COUNTY: Oklahoma's State Department of Health inspects all county jails at least annually under the Oklahoma Jail Standards Act (74 O.S. §§ 192-194) and posts 'Jail Inspection Results by Year' for 2015-2026 at (repository: This is a state function and is not counted as county disclosure.
The county sheriff page's boilerplate ('Relies on the Office of the State Auditor and Inspector for oversite and guidance') is standard ACCO template text reused on every Oklahoma county site using this platform, not an Alfalfa-specific statement.
The ACCO/KellPro county template has no single 'Board of County Commissioners' landing page; the three commissioners each have their own page under /offices (commissioner-district-1 through -3).

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Alfalfa 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.

The sheriff is on your ballot

The county election board runs the polling place in Alfalfa County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from the Oklahoma State Election Board and vote.gov.

Names verified August 21, 2026 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered