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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byJackson County Sheriff
County-published nameNone. Jackson County has no website; the state audit refers to 'a new County jail facility'
Dedicated fundingOne-half percent (1/2%) county sales tax, made permanent by special election Feb. 13, 2007 effective April 1, 2007, to construct and equip a new County jail facility
Construction debtPaid in full in September 2016; the 1/2% sales tax now funds continued maintenance and operation of the facility, with any surplus to general county purposes
Jail-ST fund receipts FY2025$1,783,020
Jail-ST fund disbursements FY2025$1,860,132

Source: Jackson 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 Jackson 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 byOne-half percent (1/2%) county sales tax. Originally set to end March 31, 2007; at a special election Feb.
BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Stacy Randolph

NoteCorroborated by the Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector's FY2025 Jackson County financial audit, which lists 'County Sheriff - Stacy Randolph'. Jackson 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: Jackson 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

District Judge Rafe Hall (Jackson County; serves the whole 3rd District)
Associate District Judge Sommer Robbins (Jackson County)
Special Judge Ryan Howard (Jackson County)

Jackson County Courthouse, 311 E. Cypress, Ste. 17, Altus, OK 73521 (Court Clerk Tina Swailes, PO Box 616, Altus, OK 73521)

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: Jackson County appears to have no government website. Nothing about the jail, sheriff, commissioners or meetings is county-published online.
The domain jacksoncountysheriff.org exists but returns HTTP 403 (Akamai 'Access Denied') to every request and could not be read; it could not be verified as belonging to Jackson County, Oklahoma rather than a Jackson County in another state, so it is not cited as a source.
Jackson County's jail construction debt has been retired since 2016, yet the dedicated half-cent sales tax continues in perpetuity for jail maintenance and operation - a useful accountability hook with no county-published budget to match it against.
OSDH jail inspection reports are published only inside a JavaScript-gated Box folder linked from ; the listing could not be enumerated without a browser.
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 Jackson 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 Jackson 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