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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byLatimer County Sheriff
County-published nameNone. The county lists a Jail Administrator and a jail phone line but never names the facility
Jail AdministratorAmanda Tucker
Jail phone918.465.4012
UndersheriffMarkus Ward
Other named staffCaptain Luke Underwood; Sergeant Brian Ferguson; Deputies Blake Sturgeon and Jeffery Duncan
Sheriff's office contactadmin@latimercountysheriff.com; fax 918.465.9686

Source: Latimer 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 Latimer 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

The Sheriff

Sheriff Adam Woodruff

NoteWritten by the county as 'Adam Woodruff / County Sheriff', with 'Republican' political party, 'Wilburton, Ok' hometown and 'In office since January, 2021'. Corroborated by the SAI FY2023 Latimer County financial audit ('County Sheriff - Adam Woodruff') and .

Still needed

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

Source: Latimer 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

Associate District Judge Margaret Nicholson (Latimer County)
District Judge Jon Sullivan (resident of LeFlore County; serves the whole 16th District)

Latimer County Courthouse, 109 N. Central, Ste. 200, Wilburton, OK 74578 (Court Clerk Melinda Brinlee, 109 N. Central Street, Wilburton)

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

PUBLIC TRUSTS present in this county, though none appears to run the jail: the county site lists a Latimer County Tourism Trust Authority as a department, and the meetings archive covers a Solid Waste Trust Authority Board and a Latimer County Education Trust.
The county publishes a jail phone number and names a Jail Administrator (Amanda Tucker) but never names the jail - an unusually specific gap.
The Sheriff's office uses an admin@latimercountysheriff.com email address, but no website exists at latimercountysheriff.com or latimercountysheriff.org (both dead).
ADDRESS INCONSISTENCY IN THE STATE COURT DIRECTORY: the 2026 Judicial Directory gives Wilburton ZIP 74578 for Associate District Judge Nicholson at 109 N. Central Ste 200, but ZIP 74568 for Court Clerk Melinda Brinlee at 109 N. Central Street - the same building with two different ZIP codes.
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.
There is NO combined Board of County Commissioners page on this county's site - only three separate district pages (/offices/commissioner-district-1, -2, -3) plus a Commissioners' Executive Assistant department page, so the Offices index is…

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