Dewey 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 — Dewey County has no website of any kind
Name the STATE usesDEWEY COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY — OSDH provider ID DET-037
Address (state record)104 W Ruble, Taloga, OK 73667
Population at last state inspection37 (census, 07/24/2025)
Rated capacityNot found
Last state inspection resultNOT in substantial compliance — cited under 74 O.S. §192.3(A)(2) (uniform, safe and sensible security); findings include that the Jail Administrator, when requested, did not produce required records
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Dewey 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 Dewey 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 Clay Sander

NoteNOT confirmable from any Dewey County-published source, because Dewey County publishes no website. Name taken from the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association current-sheriff directory.

Still needed

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

Source: Dewey 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. Celo Harrel — Associate District Judge, Dewey County (Dewey County Courthouse, P.O. Box 278, Taloga, OK 73667)
Hon. Justin Eilers — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Woodward County Courthouse, 1600 Main Street, Woodward, OK 73801)
Hon. Jason Seigars — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Garfield County Courthouse, 114 W. Broadway Ave., Enid, OK 73701)
Hon. Paul Woodward — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Garfield County Courthouse, 114 West Broadway, Enid, OK 73701)

Dewey County Courthouse, P.O. Box 278, Taloga, OK 73667 — Court Clerk Rachelle Rogers, (580) 328-5521

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

DEAD/MISSING COUNTY WEBSITE: Dewey County has NO official web presence at all — no county site, no sheriff site, no commissioner page. Every one of the ten disclosure checks is therefore false. The only public-facing channel located is a Facebook page for the Sheriff's Office.
Because the county publishes nothing, the sheriff's name (Clay Sander) rests on the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association directory, not on a county source.
The jail's only published identity is the state's: 'DEWEY COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY' (OSDH DET-037). The county writes no name for it.
Failed its most recent state inspection (07/24/2025), including a finding that the Jail Administrator did not produce requested records.
No public trust or jail authority identified; jail presumed sheriff-operated by statute.
Sheriff appears to be elected; no evidence of appointment was found, but with no county website there is no official confirmation either way.

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