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

The Detention Center

UNKNOWN as written by the county - Murray County publishes nothing; the state report refers to the 'Murray County Sheriff Office Jail' policy and names the facility the Murray County Detention Facility

Operated byMurray County Sheriff's Office
Name used by the state (OSDH)Murray County Detention Facility (provider ID DET-084)
Policy title quoted in the state reportMurray County Sheriff Office Jail
Address on OSDH inspection report700 W 10th, Sulphur, OK 73086
Census at last state inspection32 (December 15, 2025)
Last state inspection outcomeNot in substantial compliance; violations cited. The 12/15/2025 visit combined the annual inspection with complaint investigation C-2025-145
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Murray 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 Murray 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 Darin Rogers

NoteNO OFFICIAL COUNTY SOURCE AVAILABLE.

Still needed

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

Source: Murray 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 20

Associate District Judge Kristin Jarman (Murray County)
District Judge Carson Brooks (District 20, resident of Carter County, Ardmore)
District Judge Wallace Coppedge (District 20, resident of Marshall County, Madill)

Murray County Courthouse, 1001 W Wyandotte Ave, Sulphur, OK 73086 (court clerk Jodi Jennings, same address, 580-622-3223)

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

Notes on the record

DEAD/MISSING COUNTY WEBSITE - the worst case in this group. Murray County has no functioning county government website and no sheriff's office website. murraycountyok.org resolves but serves only a parked-domain lander page.
Because there is no county web presence, ALL TEN disclosure checks are false, including 'named' - the sheriff's name could not be confirmed from any county-published source and had to be taken from the Oklahoma State Election Board's official 2024 statewide roster instead.
No public trust or jail authority found for Murray County, but with no county site the absence cannot be confirmed either way.
The 15 December 2025 OSDH inspection combined the annual inspection with complaint investigation C-2025-145 and found the facility not in substantial compliance.
The jail address (700 W 10th, Sulphur) is separate from the courthouse (1001 W Wyandotte Ave), so it is a standalone detention building.
BUILDING HISTORY UNKNOWN: with no county or sheriff website there is no official source at all. No construction year, cost, funding, bed count or expansion history found.

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