Garvin 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 — Garvin County has no website
Name the STATE usesGARVIN COUNTY DETENTION CENTER — OSDH provider ID DET044
Address (state record)201 West Grant, Pauls Valley, OK 73075 (the same address as the county courthouse and Associate District Judge's Courtroom B)
Population at last state inspection59 (census, 11/18/2025)
Rated capacityNot found
Last state inspection resultPASSED — annual inspection plus investigation SAS-2025-025; 'No deficient practice was cited.'
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Garvin 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 Garvin 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 Jim Mullett

NoteNOT confirmable from a Garvin County-published source — Garvin County publishes no website.

Still needed

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

Source: Garvin 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 21

Hon. Laura McClain — Associate District Judge, Garvin County (Garvin County Courthouse, 201 West Grant, Courtroom B, Pauls Valley, OK 73075, (405) 238-2542)
Hon. Trisha Misak — Special Judge, Garvin County
Hon. Leah Edwards — District Judge, 21st Judicial District, the Garvin/McClain-resident seat (chambers: McClain County Courthouse, 121 N. 2nd Street, Purcell, OK 73080, (405) 527-6432)
Hon. Thad Balkman — District Judge, 21st Judicial District (Cleveland County Courthouse, 200 S. Peters, Norman)
Hon. Lynne McGuire — District Judge, 21st Judicial District (Cleveland County Courthouse, Norman)
Hon. Michael Tupper — District Judge, 21st Judicial District (Cleveland County Courthouse, 201 S. Jones, Norman)
Hon. Jeff Virgin — District Judge, 21st Judicial District (Cleveland County Courthouse, 200 S. Peters Ave, Norman)

Garvin County Courthouse, 201 W. Grant Street, Pauls Valley, OK 73075 — Court Clerk Laura Lee, (405) 238-5596

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: Garvin County has NO official web presence — no county site, no sheriff site, no commissioner page. All ten disclosure checks are false.
Sheriff's name (Jim Mullett) rests on the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association directory, not on a county source.
FEDERAL DETENTION CONTRACT NOT DISCLOSED LOCALLY: the Garvin County Detention Center houses ICE detainees under an Intergovernmental Service Agreement, and ICE publishes both the contract and an Office of Detention Oversight inspection.
The jail's only published local identity is the state's: 'GARVIN COUNTY DETENTION CENTER' (OSDH DET044).
The detention center's street address (201 West Grant) is the county courthouse address, which also houses the Associate District Judge's Courtroom B.
Passed its most recent state inspection (11/18/2025) with no deficiencies.

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