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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byHaskell County Sheriff
County-published nameNone. Haskell County has no website; state audit refers only to 'the Haskell County jail'
Dedicated fundingHalf-cent (1/2%) county sales tax approved by voters Feb. 8 / Nov. 8, 2005 for a new county jail and criminal justice facility
Board of Prisoners revenue FY2023$100,635 - Sheriff's office housing prisoners for tribes and other counties
Sheriff Commissary receipts FY2023$93,028
Jail fund receipts FY2023$100,496
County Jail budget FY2023$533,326 appropriated / $533,219 expended

Source: Haskell 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 Haskell 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 byVoter-approved half-cent (1/2%) county sales tax, special election Nov. 8, 2005, terminating 25 years from the effective date or on retirement of related debt, whichever is earlier.
BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Terry Garland

NoteHaskell County publishes no government website, so no county-run page names the sheriff.

Still needed

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

Source: Haskell 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 16

District Judge Jon Sullivan (resident of LeFlore County; serves the whole 16th District)
Associate District Judge Brian Henderson (Haskell County)

Haskell County Courthouse, 202 E. Main Street, Ste. 10, Stigler, OK 74462 (Court Clerk Tina Oaks, 202 E. Main St. Ste. 9)

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: Haskell County appears to have no government website of any kind. Nothing about the jail, the sheriff, the commissioners or county meetings is published by the county online.
Every result for 'Haskell County jail' in general search is an inmate-search aggregator; none were used.
The Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector released an investigative audit of the Haskell County Sheriff's Office on May 4, 2022.
The FY2023 county audit reports repeat findings on the Inmate Trust Fund Checking Account and Sheriff Commissary Fund, including no current contracts with the commissary and inmate phone card vendors, no annual commissary report filed with the Board of County Commissioners, and no policy for unclaim…
OSDH jail inspection reports for all Oklahoma counties are published only inside a JavaScript-gated Box folder linked from . The folder listing could not be enumerated without a browser, so no county-specific report URL could be captured.
OSCN's web court directories (oscn.net/courts/) are behind a Cloudflare CAPTCHA and were not accessed; court data here comes from the Oklahoma Supreme Court's 2026 Judicial Directory PDF published on oscn.net, retrieved 2026-08-21.

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