The Detention Center
The county publishes no formal name for this facility.
- Operated byHughes County Sheriff
- County-published nameNone. Hughes County has no website; state audit refers only to 'the County jail'
- County Jail budget FY2023$576,300 appropriated / $490,555 expended
- CommissarySheriff Commissary fund accounts for profits on commissary sales in the County jail; disbursements are for jail operations as defined by state statute
Source: Hughes 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
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
The Sheriff
Sheriff Trever Teague
- NoteNAME CHANGED SINCE LAST AUDIT: the Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector's FY2023 Hughes County report lists Marcia Maxwell as County Sheriff. Trever Teague is the current sheriff per the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Hughes 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 22
- District Judge Steve Kessinger (resident of Pontotoc County; serves the whole 22nd District)
- District Judge Brett Butner (resident of Seminole County; serves the whole 22nd District)
- Associate District Judge Trisha Smith (Hughes County)
Hughes County Courthouse, P.O. Box 875, Holdenville, OK 74848 (Court Clerk Ashley Sanford, P.O. Box 32, Holdenville, OK 74848)
- 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: Hughes County, Oklahoma appears to have no government website. Nothing about the jail, sheriff, commissioners or meetings is county-published online.
- DOMAIN TRAP: www.hughescounty.org is Hughes County, South Dakota. Do not treat it as this county's site.
- Sheriff of record changed between the FY2023 state audit (Marcia Maxwell) and the current Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association listing (Trever Teague); no county source exists to reconcile the two.
- OSDH jail inspection reports are published only inside a JavaScript-gated Box folder linked from ; the listing could not be enumerated without a browser, so no county-specific report URL was captured.
- OSCN's web court directories are behind a Cloudflare CAPTCHA; court data comes from the Oklahoma Supreme Court's 2026 Judicial Directory PDF on oscn.net.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Hughes 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 Hughes 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