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

The Detention Center

Lincoln County Jail

Operated byLincoln County Sheriff's Office
Name used by the countyLincoln County Jail
Name used by the state (OSDH)Lincoln County Detention Facility (provider ID DET-070)
Address on OSDH inspection report811 Manvel, Suite #14, Chandler, OK 74834
Jail administratorMemphis Anderson (per lincolncountyok.org/offices/county-sheriff)
Census at last state inspection74 (May 22, 2026)
Rated capacityNot determined by the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal, per the 05/22/2026 OSDH report
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Lincoln County — official source · checked August 21, 2026

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Lincoln 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 Sheriff Kevin Garrett

NoteCounty sheriff's site writes 'Sheriff Kevin Garrett'; the county government site (lincolncountyok.org/offices/county-sheriff) writes 'Kevin Garrett'.

Still needed

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

Source: Lincoln 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 23

District Judge Sarah Bridge (resident district judge, Lincoln County Courthouse)
District Judge John Canavan (District 23, sits at Pottawatomie County Courthouse)
Associate District Judge Joseph Dobry (Lincoln County)

Lincoln County Courthouse, 811 Manvel Ave, Chandler, OK 74834 (court clerk Kristie Hammock, P.O. Box 307, Chandler, OK 74834)

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

Sheriff's office runs its own site at lincolncountysheriffok.gov (a .gov domain); the county government site is lincolncountyok.org, which runs on the OKCounties.org platform. Both are live.
NAME INCONSISTENCY: the county and sheriff both call it the 'Lincoln County Jail'; the Oklahoma State Department of Health inspection report calls the same facility the 'LINCOLN COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY' (provider ID DET-070).
No public trust or jail authority found for Lincoln County; the Sheriff's Office operates the jail directly.
The county does NOT publish jail inspection reports itself - the only inspection reports found are the state OSDH reports in the statewide Box folder linked from
No published jail capacity: the 05/22/2026 OSDH report states the rated capacity 'has not been determined by the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal.'
No in-custody death reporting, no PREA policy page (checked /prea and /prea-policies - both 404), and no jail contracts found. The county's /bids page returned 'no active bids'.
The county has no single 'Board of County Commissioners' page; the three commissioner districts are listed separately under /offices. /meetings carries signed BOCC minutes and agendas as PDFs (filterable by board and year, 2021-2026).

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