The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byGrady County Criminal Justice Authority (GCCJA) — a public trust created August 12, 2002 under 60 O.S. §§ 176–180.3, with Grady County as beneficiary.
- County-published facility nameNONE — gccja.com (the county-side trust's own site, footer 'Copyright © 2026 Grady County') brands only the entity, 'Grady County Criminal Justice Authority', and never gives the jail itself a proper name. The county's CivicPlus site has no jail page at all.
- Name in the state auditor's report'Grady County Jail and Law Enforcement Center (GCLEC)' —
- Name the STATE health department usesGRADY COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY — OSDH provider ID DET047
- Address215 N 3rd, Chickasha, OK 73018 — (405) 222-1000 (GCCJA); Sheriff's Office at 302 N 3rd Street, (405) 222-5085
- Population at last state inspection649 (census, 07/16/2026)
- Rated capacity (State Fire Marshal)700 — printed in the 2026 OSDH report
- State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →
Source: Grady 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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsRated capacity 700 (State Fire Marshal, per the 07/16/2026 OSDH report); census 649 at that inspection
Since then
- 2019 — a 13,000-square-foot addition, the 'Law Enforcement Center East Detention Facility,' a minimum-security building adding about 200 inmate beds; construction completed July 2019 (Journal Record, republished at Cost not published.
- Fourth-floor completion of the County Jail was the subject of funding agreements reviewed in the Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector's special audit of the GCCJA; no date or cost published.
The Sheriff
Sheriff Gary Boggess
- NoteNamed on the Grady County Sheriff's Office site, which the county's official website links to as its Sheriff's Office page. The Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association directory uses the same spelling. Elected, not appointed.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Grady 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 6
- Hon. Kory Kirkland — District Judge, 6th Judicial District (Grady County Courthouse, P.O. Box 605, Chickasha, OK 73023, (405) 224-3737)
- Hon. Z. Joseph Young — Associate District Judge, Grady County (Grady County Courthouse, P.O. Box 605, Chickasha, OK 73023, (405) 224-5314)
- Hon. Regina Lowe — Special Judge, Grady County
Grady County Courthouse, P.O. Box 605, Chickasha, OK 73023 — Court Clerk Mica Hackney, (405) 224-7446; county court clerk page
- 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 jail is run by the Grady County Criminal Justice Authority, a public trust created August 12, 2002 under 60 O.S. §§ 176–180.3 with Grady County as beneficiary — not by the Sheriff.
- NAME INCONSISTENCY: the Authority's site brands everything 'Grady County Criminal Justice Authority'; the Oklahoma State Auditor calls the facility the 'Grady County Jail and Law Enforcement Center (GCLEC)'; OSDH registers it as 'GRADY COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY'; the 2019 addition is the 'Law Enforc…
- This is by far the largest jail in this group — 649 people in custody against a 700 rated capacity, in a county of about 55,000. It houses federal prisoners for the U.S. Marshals Service at $16.80/hour for guarding and transport, per the State Auditor's special audit.
- The Authority has been the subject of a special audit by the Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector.
- GCCJA publishes its schedule of regular meetings and board membership, but publishes no budget, no contracts, no PREA material, no death log and no fee schedule.
- The county's own CivicPlus site does not carry a jail page at all — it simply links out to the Sheriff's Office site; jail governance is effectively off the county website.
- Grady County runs a full CivicPlus site with an Agenda Center, compiled agendas and minutes (/236), and separate minute series for the Excise Board, Tax Roll Correction Board and Equalization Board.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Grady 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 Grady 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