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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byJohnston County Sheriff
County-published nameNone. The county's Sheriff page never names the jail; the state audit refers to 'the facility to house prisoners in Johnston County'
Sheriff's office address110 N. Capital Ave., Tishomingo, OK 73460
UndersheriffChristian Smith
Dedicated fundingOne-quarter percent (.25%) county sales tax for maintenance and operation of the prisoner facility, approved Jan. 8, 2013 and continued by voters Feb. 8, 2022 through March 31, 2033
Jail-ST fund receipts FY2023$257,988
Jail-ST budget FY2023$324,918 appropriated / $233,460 expended

Source: Johnston 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 Johnston 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-quarter of one percent (.25%) county sales tax approved by Johnston County voters Jan. 8, 2013 for ten years beginning April 1, 2013; continued by voters Feb.
BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Gary Dodd

NoteWritten by the county as 'Gary Dodd / Sheriff', with 'Republican' political party, 'Tishomingo' hometown and 'In office since 2021'. Undersheriff listed as Christian Smith.

Still needed

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

Source: Johnston 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 20

Associate District Judge Laura Corbin (Johnston County)
District Judge Carson Brooks (resident of Carter County; serves the whole 20th District)
District Judge Wallace Coppedge (resident of Marshall County; serves the whole 20th District)

Johnston County Courthouse, 403 West Main, Suite 203, Tishomingo, OK 73460 (Court Clerk Marci Sneed, 403 West Main Ste. 201)

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

The county names the sheriff and undersheriff and gives the year he took office, but publishes no jail page at all - no facility name, roster, capacity, budget, inspection, PREA, bond or fee information.
The county's dedicated jail sales tax is described as funding 'maintenance and operation' only, not construction - no construction-era funding record was found.
The county's /fees page publishes only County Clerk fees - no sheriff or jail fees.
County site runs on the okcounties.org (KellPro) shared county portal platform.
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.
Meetings page offers both Agenda and Minutes document types, but only year 2026 appears in the year filter and the most recent postings seen were March 2026 - the archive is thin and appears not to be kept current.

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