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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byHarmon County Sheriff's Office (the Sheriff's Office lists a 'Detention Center' division). No public trust or authority identified.
County/sheriff-published jail nameNone — the site's navigation carries a 'Detention Center' division link, but returns HTTP 404. No facility name is published anywhere on the site.
Name the STATE usesHARMON COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY — OSDH provider ID DET052
Address (state record)105 W Jones, Hollis, OK 73550 — the same address the Sheriff's Office publishes; phone (580) 688-3306
Population at last state inspection6 (census, 08/13/2025) — the smallest census of the ten counties in this group
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: Harmon 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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Harmon 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 Deakon Wood

NoteAPPOINTMENT/SUCCESSION UNRESOLVED.

Still needed

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

Source: Harmon 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. W. Mike Warren — Associate District Judge, Harmon County (Harmon County Courthouse, 114 W. Hollis Street, Hollis, OK 73550, (580) 688-2553)
Hon. Rafe Hall — District Judge, 3rd Judicial District (chambers: Jackson County Courthouse, 311 E. Cypress, Ste. 17, Altus, OK 73521)

Harmon County Courthouse, 114 W. Hollis Street, Hollis, OK 73550 — Court Clerk Stacy Macias, 114 W. Hollis St., (580) 688-3617

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

GOVERNANCE UPHEAVAL: Sheriff Steve Cornett and multiple deputies — including the department administrator and a detention deputy — resigned effective immediately on February 23, 2026.
MISSING COUNTY WEBSITE: Harmon County government publishes nothing — no commissioner page, no agendas, no minutes, no budget. The Sheriff's Office site is the county's only official web presence.
BROKEN OFFICIAL PAGE: the Sheriff's Office navigation links to a 'Detention Center' page that returns HTTP 404, so the county's only would-be jail page is dead.
The jail has no locally published name at all; the state calls it the 'HARMON COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY' (DET052).
Passed its most recent state inspection (08/13/2025) with no deficiencies — but that inspection predates the February 2026 staff walkout.
No public trust or jail authority identified; the Sheriff's Office runs the detention center as a division.

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