The Detention Center
Garfield County Jail
- Operated byGarfield County Criminal Justice Authority (GCCJA) — a public trust.
- Name the jail itself publishes'Garfield County Jail' — garfieldcountyjail.com, the facility's own site, which posts GCCJA notices
- Name the Sheriff's Office publishes'Garfield County Detention Facility' —
- Name the STATE usesGARFIELD COUNTY CRIMINAL JUSTICE AUTHORITY — OSDH provider ID DET-043
- Operator name as the county writes it'Garfield County Criminal Trust Authority' (garfieldok.com) vs. 'GCCJA' / Garfield County Criminal Justice Authority (garfieldcountyjail.com PDFs and the OSDH record)
- Address1020 S. 10th Street, Enid, OK 73701 — office (580) 548-2429, fax (580) 548-2469
- Sheriff's Office address216 W. Oxford Ave, Enid, OK 73701 — non-emergency (580) 237-0244; 22 deputies, 7 dispatchers, 2 administrative assistants
- State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →
Source: Garfield County — official source · checked August 21, 2026
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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 built2005 — the jail on South 10th Street opened in 2005 and was reported 'already full' within a year
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byA county sales tax approved by Garfield County voters in 2002 paid for construction; a 2016 continuation of that sales tax ran through 2024 (Enid News & Eagle
- BedsAbout 252 beds as reported in 2022, overwhelmingly maximum-custody; the State Fire Marshal rated capacity recorded by OSDH on 09/08/2025 is 187
Since then
- Operations transferred from the Sheriff to the Garfield County Criminal Justice Authority effective January 1, 2021
- August 23, 2022 ballot: a 0.30% county sales tax for 20 years (from Jan. 1, 2023) to add 62 dormitory-style beds, expand to 16,000 square feet and renovate existing space — REJECTED by voters
- May 2023 ballot: the sales-tax increase to expand and renovate the jail was put to voters again and was 'turned down again'
The Sheriff
Sheriff Cory S. Rink
- NoteWritten 'Cory S. Rink, Garfield County Sheriff' on the county's own site, which states he was 'elected Garfield County Sheriff in August 2020 and took office on January 4, 2021.' The Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association directory uses the identical spelling.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Garfield 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. Jason Seigars — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (Garfield County Courthouse, 114 W. Broadway Ave., Enid, OK 73701)
- Hon. Paul Woodward — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (Garfield County Courthouse, 114 West Broadway, Enid, OK 73701, (580) 237-5031)
- Hon. Sean Hill — Associate District Judge, Garfield County (Garfield County Courthouse, 114 West Broadway, Enid, OK 73701)
- Hon. Blake Gibson — Special Judge, Garfield County
- Hon. Tallena Hart — Special Judge, Garfield County
- Hon. Justin Eilers — District Judge, 4th Judicial District (chambers: Woodward County Courthouse, Woodward)
Garfield County Courthouse, 114 W. Broadway Ave., Enid, OK 73701 — Court Clerk Shellie Kraft, (580) 237-0232; Court Clerk office site
- 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
- PUBLIC TRUST JAIL: the Garfield County Detention Facility has been operated since January 1, 2021 by the Garfield County Criminal Justice Authority, a public trust, not by the Sheriff. The Sheriff sits on the board of trustees but does not run daily operations.
- THREE-WAY NAME INCONSISTENCY: the facility's own website says 'Garfield County Jail'; the Sheriff's page says 'Garfield County Detention Facility'; OSDH registers the provider as 'GARFIELD COUNTY CRIMINAL JUSTICE AUTHORITY' (DET-043).
- OPERATOR NAME INCONSISTENCY: the Sheriff's page calls the trust the 'Garfield County Criminal Trust Authority', while the trust's own documents and the state record call it the Garfield County Criminal Justice Authority (GCCJA).
- CAPACITY CONFLICT: 2022 reporting put the jail at roughly 252 beds; the State Fire Marshal rated capacity recorded by OSDH in 2025 is 187. Neither the county nor the trust publishes a capacity figure, so both numbers come from outside county publication.
- Voters rejected jail-expansion sales taxes twice in a row (August 2022 and May 2023).
- Garfield County has no single unified county website — offices sit on separate subdomains and separate domains (garfieldok.com, commissioner.garfieldok.com, courtclerk.garfieldok.com, gcclerk.org, gcem.org), which makes disclosure uneven across offices.
- Garfield County runs separate Squarespace subdomains per office (garfieldok.com for the Assessor and main site, commissioner.garfieldok.com, courtclerk.garfieldok.com, gcclerk.org for the County Clerk).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Garfield 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 Garfield 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