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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byBeckham 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 address108 S. 3rd, Sayre, OK 73662
Phone / fax580.928.2121 / 580.928.2262
Office hours8:00 - 4:00
What was triedFull link crawl of beckham.okcounties.org (offices, departments, meetings, fees, where-do-i); Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association Beckham page (lists no agency website); web search for a Beckham County Sheriff's Office site and for any Beckham County jail trust or…

Source: Beckham 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 Beckham 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 Derek Manning

NoteCounty page states party Republican, hometown Elk City, 'In office since 2017'. Confirmed independently by the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association at .

Still needed

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

Source: Beckham 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 2

Hon. Michelle Kirby Roper — Associate District Judge, Beckham County
Hon. Donna Dirickson — District Judge, 2nd Judicial District (chambers: Custer County Courthouse, P.O. Box 105, Arapaho, OK 73620, (580) 323-2230)

Beckham County Courthouse, P.O. Box 527, Sayre, OK 73662 — (580) 928-9332

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

Beckham County's ACCO/KellPro site is maintained and posts current agendas, but carries no jail disclosure of any kind.
BOND SCHEDULE IS NOT BOND-POSTING INFO: The county's /fees page does publish bond schedules — traffic/speeding, overweight-permit, Oklahoma Wildlife and Oklahoma Boating bond schedules, plus abstractor's and property bonds.
No Beckham County Sheriff's Office website exists; the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association entry lists no agency site.
The sheriff's office publishes a hotmail.com address (recordsdepartment@hotmail.com) as its contact — a records-request channel on a consumer email service rather than a government domain.
NOT THE COUNTY JAIL: Beckham County also contains the North Fork Correctional Facility at Sayre, a large private/state prison. It is not the county jail and should not be conflated with county detention.
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' 2015-2026 at (repository State function, not county disclosure.
No single board landing page on the ACCO/KellPro template; the three commissioners have individual pages under /offices, plus a 'Commissioners' Executive Assistant' department page.

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