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

The Detention Center

UNKNOWN as written by the county - the county's offices directory links to the Sheriff's Office site, whose /jail/ page is captcha-protected and could not be read

Operated byMcClain County Sheriff's Office
Name used by the state (OSDH)McClain County Detention Facility (provider ID DET-079)
Address on OSDH inspection report121 N 2nd, Ste 121, Purcell, OK 73080 (the McClain County Courthouse address)
Census at last state inspection58 (January 6, 2026)
Reported capacity56 inmates, reported to OSDH by the Jail Administrator (01/06/2026 report)
Overcrowding findingThe 01/06/2026 OSDH report cites the facility as over capacity, housing 58 inmates against a reported capacity of 56, and records that the Jail Administrator reported the facility has no policy addressing inmates sleeping on the floor when capacity is exceeded
Last state inspection outcomeNot in substantial compliance; violations cited (01/06/2026)
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

1/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✗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 McClain 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
Beds56 (capacity reported by the Jail Administrator to OSDH, 01/06/2026 - an operating capacity, not a construction figure)

The Sheriff

Sheriff Landy Offolter

NoteThe Oklahoma State Election Board 2024 Roster lists 'Landy Offolter, R, Blanchard'. The McClain County Sheriff's Office publishes his name in its own documents (letterhead reading 'McCLAIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, Landy Offolter, Sheriff').

Still needed

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

Source: McClain 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 21

District Judge Leah Edwards (resident district judge, McClain County Courthouse)
Associate District Judge Charles Gray (McClain County)
Special Judge Lori Puckett (McClain County)

McClain County Courthouse, 121 N. 2nd Street, Purcell, OK 73080 (court clerk Kristel Gray, 121 N. 2nd Street, Ste. 231)

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

CAPTCHA-BLOCKED SITES: both mcclain-co-ok.us and mcclaincountysheriff.com sit behind Sucuri bot protection and return a captcha challenge rather than page content. Only the county's /offices/ directory could be read.
OVERCROWDING: the 06 January 2026 OSDH inspection recorded 58 inmates against a reported capacity of 56 and found no policy for inmates sleeping on the floor when capacity is exceeded. The facility was found not in substantial compliance.
The jail address on the OSDH report (121 N 2nd, Ste 121) is the courthouse address, indicating a courthouse jail.
No public trust or jail authority found for McClain County.
The county does NOT publish inspection reports itself.
NAME: the county publishes no jail name that could be verified; the state name is 'MCCLAIN COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY'.
McClain County uses its own domain mcclain-co-ok.us rather than the OKCounties.org platform. The site is live but sits behind a Sucuri bot-protection captcha; the offices directory was readable, most sub-pages were not.

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