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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byCuster County Sheriff's Office (the county page states the Sheriff 'has power and authority to operate the County Jail')
Published facility nameNONE - the county publishes no jail or detention page and gives the facility no name
Sheriff's office addressPO Box 40, Arapaho, OK 73620
Phone580.323.1616
UndersheriffDavid Crabtree
Rated capacityNot found
Jail administratorNot found
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

1/10Closed

✗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
✗How to post bond — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Custer 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 Dan Day

NoteCounty page lists 'Dan Day, Sheriff' with 'In office since 2021' and Undersheriff David Crabtree. Confirmed by the 2024 State Election Board roster ('Sheriff - Dan Day, R, Clinton').

Still needed

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

Source: Custer 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

Donna Dirickson - District Judge (Custer County), the District Judge for District 2
Dana Hada - Associate District Judge (Custer County)
Stephanie Jones - Special Judge (Custer County)

Custer County Courthouse, Arapaho, OK 73620 (the 2026 Judicial Directory gives mailing addresses P.O. Box 105 and P.O.

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 →

Notes on the record

UNNAMED JAIL: Custer County has a functioning, state-inspected jail but publishes no jail page and no facility name anywhere on its county website. The only reference is the boilerplate line that the Sheriff 'has power and authority to operate the County Jail'.
Only one of ten disclosure checks met (a bids/contracts section). No roster, no capacity, no PREA policy, no budget, no death reporting, no bond information, no fee schedule.
The county DOES actively maintain a 'Notices & Resolutions' page and posts to it, showing the site is live and staffed - the absence of jail disclosure is a choice, not neglect of the website.
Empty template page: /fees returns the page frame with no fee content.
Custer County has the unusual arrangement of a small county seat (Arapaho) hosting the courthouse, jail and sheriff while the county's population centres are Clinton and Weatherford, both of which run their own city jails that OSDH inspects separately.
County website is a KellPro/OKCounties.org hosted site (custer.okcounties.org) and is current.
No combined Board of County Commissioners page - only three district pages (/offices/commissioner-district-1, -2, -3). The Public Meetings page carries only boilerplate about the Board's statutory duties; no agendas or minutes are posted.

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