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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byNot found
County publishes a jail nameNo — no county website and no working sheriff website exist
atokasheriff.com statusLive domain, but a placeholder page reading 'PRODIGY' and 'Coming Soon', footer 'Copyright © 2025 Prodigy - All Rights Reserved'. No jail, roster or contact content.
Associate District Judge / courthouse adAtoka County Courthouse, 200 E. Court Street, Atoka, OK 74525 — (580) 889-3400
What was triedatoka.okcounties.org (does not exist); atokacountyok.org and atokacounty.org (do not resolve); atokasheriff.com (placeholder); Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association Atoka page (lists no agency website); web searches for an Atoka County official site and commissioners…

Source: Atoka 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 Atoka 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 Kody Simpson

NoteAtoka County has no county government website and no working sheriff's office website, so the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association current-sheriff directory is the only official-sector source located for the name.

Still needed

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

Source: Atoka 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 25

Hon. Preston Harbuck — Associate District Judge, Atoka County
Hon. D. Mowdy — District Judge, 25th Judicial District (chambers: Coal County Courthouse, 4 N. Main, Suite 10, Coalgate, OK 74538, (580) 258-7714).

Atoka County Courthouse, 200 E. Court Street, Atoka, OK 74525 — (580) 889-3400

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

Notes on the record

WORST-CASE TRANSPARENCY: Atoka County appears to have NO official county government website at all. No county domain, no ACCO/KellPro subdomain (atoka.okcounties.org does not exist), no commissioners agenda or minutes archive.
DEAD/STALE SHERIFF SITE: atokasheriff.com resolves but serves only a 'Coming Soon' placeholder branded 'PRODIGY', copyright 2025. The domain has been claimed but never populated.
The county's only located digital presence for the Board of County Commissioners and the Sheriff's Office is Facebook.
Because no county source names the facility, the jail name is recorded as null rather than guessed. Commercial inmate-search sites do carry an 'Atoka County Jail' listing but are excluded under the no-aggregator rule.
STATE, NOT COUNTY: The Oklahoma State Department of Health inspects all city and county detention facilities at least annually under the Oklahoma Jail Standards Act (74 O.S.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Atoka 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 Atoka 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