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

The Detention Center

Major County Jail

Operated byMajor County Sheriff's Office
Name used by the countyMajor County Jail
Name used by the state (OSDH)Major County Detention Facility (provider ID DET-075)
Address on OSDH inspection report500 E Broadway, Fairview, OK 73737 (the Major County Courthouse address)
Census at last state inspection11 (April 27, 2026)
Rated capacityNot determined by the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal, per the 04/27/2026 OSDH report
Last state inspection outcomeNot in substantial compliance; the report records that the Sheriff denied inspector access to male housing cells at approximately 10:50 a.m. and did not provide a requested policy for review (04/27/2026)
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Major 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
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Major 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 Anthony Robinson

NoteNAME INCONSISTENCY: the Sheriff's Office site writes 'Sheriff Anthony Robinson'; the Oklahoma State Election Board 2024 Roster lists him as 'Tony Robinson, R, Chester'. Elected, not appointed.

Still needed

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

Source: Major 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 4

Associate District Judge Tim Haworth (Major County)
District Judge Justin Eilers (District 4, Woodward County Courthouse)
District Judge Jason Seigars (District 4, Garfield County Courthouse, Enid)
District Judge Paul Woodward (District 4, Garfield County Courthouse, Enid)

Major County Courthouse, 500 E. Broadway St., Fairview, OK 73737 (court clerk Lindsey Keck, same address)

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 government site majorcountyok.org is behind a Sucuri captcha and could not be read; the Sheriff's Office site majorcosheriff.com is fully readable. Neither is dead, but the county site is effectively unreadable to automated access.
NAME INCONSISTENCY (sheriff): 'Anthony Robinson' on the Sheriff's Office site vs 'Tony Robinson' in the Oklahoma State Election Board 2024 official roster.
NAME INCONSISTENCY (jail): 'Major County Jail' on the sheriff's site vs 'MAJOR COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY' (DET-075) on the state inspection report.
The jail address on the OSDH report (500 E Broadway) is the courthouse address, indicating the jail is in or attached to the Major County Courthouse.
The 04/27/2026 OSDH inspection was a combined inspection and investigation and found the facility not in substantial compliance. Reported strictly as the state record states; no allegation is asserted as fact here.
No public trust or jail authority found for Major County.
majorcountyok.org is live but sits behind a Sucuri bot-protection captcha, so its pages could not be read directly; the two URLs above were confirmed to exist (HTTP 202 captcha challenge, not 404) and appear in search indexes as 'Board of C…

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