The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byNot found
- County publishes a jail nameNo — Ellis County has no website
- Name the STATE usesELLIS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY — OSDH provider ID DET-042
- Address (state record)100 S Washington, Arnett, OK 73832
- Population at last state inspection17 (census, 09/16/2025)
- Rated capacityNot found
- Last state inspection resultPASSED — 'No deficient practice was cited. The facility is deemed to be in substantial compliance.'
- State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →
Source: Ellis 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 Shane Booth
- NoteNOT confirmable from an Ellis County-published source. Ellis County publishes no website.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Ellis 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. Laurie Hays — Associate District Judge, Ellis County (Ellis County Courthouse, P.O. Box 151, Arnett, OK 73832, (580) 885-7601)
- Hon. Donna Dirickson — District Judge, 2nd Judicial District (chambers: Custer County Courthouse, P.O. Box 105, Arapaho, OK 73620, (580) 323-2230)
Ellis County Courthouse, P.O. Box 151, Arnett, OK 73832 — Associate District Judge (580) 885-7601; Court Clerk Sally Wayland, P.O.
- 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: Ellis County has NO official web presence — no county site, no sheriff site. All ten disclosure checks are false. Only a Sheriff's Office Facebook page was located.
- Sheriff's name (Shane Booth) rests on the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association directory, not a county source.
- The jail's only published identity is the state's: 'ELLIS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY' (OSDH DET-042). The county writes no name for it.
- Ellis County's jail is one of only three in this group of ten that PASSED its most recent state inspection with no deficiencies cited (with Harmon and Harper).
- No public trust or jail authority identified; jail presumed sheriff-operated by statute.
- No evidence of an appointed sheriff, but with no county website there is no official confirmation of how the office was filled.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ellis 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 Ellis 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