Greer County, Oklahoma — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Greer County Jail

Operated byGreer County Sheriff's Office. Jail Administrator Chad Dennis. No public trust or authority involved.
Name the county/sheriff uses'Greer County Jail'
Name the STATE usesGREER COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY — OSDH provider ID DET049
Capacity the sheriff publishes'a capacity to house up to 43 inmates'
Established'serving the community since its establishment in 1920'
Jail AdministratorChad Dennis
Address105 S Pennsylvania Ave, Mangum, OK 73554 (OSDH records '105 SOUTH PENN')
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Greer County — official source · checked August 21, 2026

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✓Beds and daily population
✗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 Greer 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 built1920 — 'The Greer County Jail, a historic correctional facility serving the community since its establishment in 1920'
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds43 ('a capacity to house up to 43 inmates', per the Sheriff's Office jail page)

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Steve McMahan

NoteWritten 'Sheriff Steve McMahan' on the Sheriff's Office's own site, which states he 'took his oath of office as Sheriff of Greer County' in April 2023 — i.e. he came in mid-term, following service as Undersheriff under Sheriff Jackie Jenkins.

Still needed

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

Source: Greer 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 3

Hon. Eric Yarborough — Associate District Judge, Greer County (Greer County Courthouse, P.O. Box 216, Mangum, OK 73554, (580) 782-4020)
Hon. Rafe Hall — District Judge, 3rd Judicial District (chambers: Jackson County Courthouse, 311 E. Cypress, Ste. 17, Altus, OK 73521)

Greer County Courthouse, P.O. Box 216, Mangum, OK 73554 — Court Clerk Jeanna Scott, (580) 782-3665

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

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

NAME SPELLED INCONSISTENTLY ACROSS OFFICIAL SOURCES: the Sheriff's Office site writes 'Steve McMahan'; the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association directory writes 'Steven McMahan'.
MID-TERM SUCCESSION: McMahan 'took his oath of office as Sheriff of Greer County' in April 2023 — not at the start of a term.
The county's ACCO/KellPro site (greer.okcounties.org) has a County Sheriff office page that names no officeholder — all sheriff and jail disclosure lives on the separate greercountysheriff.org site.
NAME INCONSISTENCY for the facility: the Sheriff writes 'Greer County Jail'; OSDH registers 'GREER COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY' (DET049).
Greer is one of only two counties in this group that publishes a jail capacity figure on its own site (43), alongside Grant (39).
Failed its most recent state inspection (08/13/2025) on sanitary conditions and on failing to ensure inmates have a usable bed.
Commissioners are Brent York (District 1), Mark Barnes (District 2) and Steven Fite (District 3). The Public Meetings page is filterable and runs to 136 pages of agendas and minutes, the deepest archive in this group.

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