The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byCotton County Sheriff's Office (presumed by statute; unverifiable from any county source)
- Published facility nameNONE - the county has no website of any kind
- Evidence a jail existsOSDH inspected a Cotton County jail on 03/09/2026 and 08/12/2025
- Rated capacityNot found
- Jail administratorNot found
- AddressNot found
- State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →
Source: Cotton 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
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 Tim King
- NoteONLY OFFICIAL SOURCE AVAILABLE is the Oklahoma State Election Board's 2024 Roster of State and County Officers, which lists 'Sheriff - Tim King, R, Walters'.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Cotton 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 5
- Michael Flanagan - Associate District Judge (Cotton County, Walters)
- District 5 District Judges seated in other counties of the district: Scott Meaders, Grant Sheperd and Jay Walker (Comanche County), G. Russell (Stephens County)
Cotton County Courthouse, 301 N. Broadway, Walters, OK 73572
- 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
- NO COUNTY WEBSITE AT ALL - the most severe case in this group. Cotton County publishes nothing online: no county site, no sheriff site, no commissioners page. The only official traces are the State Election Board officer roster, the Supreme Court judicial directory, and the OSDH inspection reports.
- ZERO OF TEN disclosure checks met, and unlike Coal County there is not even a website on which to publish.
- Because there is no county source, the Sheriff's name rests solely on the 2024 State Election Board roster and cannot be cross-checked against how the county itself spells it.
- A jail demonstrably operates here - OSDH inspected it on 03/09/2026 and 08/12/2025 - but the public has no county-published way to learn its name, size, rules or population.
- HISTORICAL ACCOUNTABILITY NOTE: a Cotton County sheriff was suspended in June 2019 (reported by NewsChannel 6), an event that predates the current officeholder but underlines the absence of any local disclosure channel.
- For court purposes Cotton County shares District 5 with Comanche, Jefferson and Stephens; only the Associate District Judge, Michael Flanagan, sits in Walters.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Cotton 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.
- Find your polling place — OK Voter Portal →
- Your county election board →
- Register to vote in Oklahoma →
The county election board runs the polling place in Cotton 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