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

The Detention Center

County Jail (the county publishes no distinct facility name; its sheriff page states only that the Sheriff 'has power and authority to operate the County Jail')

Operated byMcIntosh County Sheriff's Office
Name used by the state (OSDH)McIntosh County Detention Facility (provider ID DET-081)
Address on OSDH inspection report1425 Industrial Drive, Eufaula, OK 74432 (same address as the Sheriff's Office)
Census at last state inspection71 (July 9, 2025)
Last state inspection outcomeNo deficient practice cited; deemed in substantial compliance (07/09/2025)
Sheriff's office phone918-689-4357; after-hours dispatch 918-689-2526
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what McIntosh 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 Kevin Ledbetter

NoteThe county writes 'Kevin Ledbetter, Sheriff, In office since 2024'. The Oklahoma State Election Board 2024 Roster lists 'Kevin Ledbetter, R, Checotah'. 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: McIntosh 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 18

District Judge Mike Hogan (District 18, resident of Pittsburg County)
Associate District Judge Brendon Bridges (McIntosh County, in office since 2018)

McIntosh County Courthouse, 110 1st St, Eufaula, OK 74432 (court clerk Lisa Rodebush, P.O. Box 426, Eufaula, OK 74432)

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

DEAD LINK ON THE COUNTY'S OWN SITE: the county sheriff page links out to 'Sheriff's Department Website' at but that hostname does not resolve in DNS at all. The Sheriff's Office therefore has no reachable website, and the county's own link to it is broken.
NO JAIL NAME PUBLISHED BY THE COUNTY: the sheriff page refers only to 'the County Jail'. The state calls it the 'MCINTOSH COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY' (DET-081).
No public trust or jail authority found for McIntosh County.
The county does NOT publish inspection reports itself. No county-published roster, no capacity figure, no PREA policy, no in-custody death reporting, no bond schedule, and no jail contracts (its /bids page shows no active bids).
The county's /fees page is unusually detailed and quotes Oklahoma Open Records case law (Brooke v. Reed, 2025 OK 86; Wagner v. Office of Sheriff of Custer Cnty., 2021 OK CIV APP 20) and AG opinions on copying fees.
BUILDING HISTORY UNKNOWN: with the sheriff's site unreachable there is no official narrative source. No construction year, cost, funding, bed count or expansion history found.
No combined board page; commissioner districts 1-3 are listed separately under /offices. Recent BOCC and Excise Board agendas are published as PDFs under /file/meetings/.

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