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

The Detention Center

Osage County Jail

Operated byOsage County Sheriff's Office — the site refers to 'Osage County Sheriff's Office Jail mail rules' and the 'Osage County Detention's Office'. Jail Administrator: Capt. Jay Long; Assistant Jail Administrator: Lt. Connie Burtrum.
Name as the sheriff writes itThe Osage County Jail (also written 'Osage County Detention's Office')
Name as the State Department of Health wOSAGE COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY (OSDH provider ID DET-092)
Jail address (per the state inspection r900 S St Paul, Pawhuska, OK 74056
Jail AdministratorCapt. Jay Long
Assistant Jail AdministratorLt. Connie Burtrum
Population at last state inspection141 (census on 04/14/2026)
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

5/10Partial

✓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
✓How to post bond
✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Osage 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

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Bart Perrier

NoteNamed on the Sheriff's Office's own .gov site.

Still needed

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

Source: Osage 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 10

Hon. Stuart Tate — District Judge, 10th Judicial District, Osage County
Hon. Burl Estes — Associate District Judge, Osage County
Hon. Cindy Pickerill — Special Judge, Osage County

Osage County Courthouse, 600 Grandview Avenue, Pawhuska, OK 74056. Court Clerk Lavendar Carroll, 600 Grandview Avenue, Pawhuska, OK 74056, (918) 287-4104.

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

Two separate official sites: osage.okcounties.org is the county government site, while osagecountyok.gov — despite the county-style .gov name — belongs to the Sheriff's Office. A member of the public looking for the county board on the .gov domain will find only the Sheriff.
Osage County is unusual in publishing actual inmate telephone, video-visit and messaging rates (e.g. $0.16/min domestic calls, $0.30/min video visits), which most Oklahoma counties do not.
Inmate mail is diverted to a private scanning vendor in Longview, Texas, where the physical mail is destroyed after scanning — the Sheriff's Office publishes an explicit warning that nothing sent there will be returned.
Spelling inconsistency: the state officer roster gives the Sheriff's town as 'Barnsdale'; his own official biography writes 'Barnsdall'.
The Oklahoma State Fire Marshal has not set a rated capacity for the Osage County jail, so the 141-person census at the 04/14/2026 inspection cannot be measured against any official limit.
No PREA page, no in-custody death reporting, no jail budget and no jail capacity figure are published.
The county government site is osage.okcounties.org (KellPro/OKCounties.org); osagecountyok.gov is the SHERIFF's site, not the county's.

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