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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byPawnee County Sheriff's Office. The county's sheriff page recites the statutory duty 'to operate the county jail'; the Sheriff's own site refers only to 'the jail' and 'this Jail'.
County publishes a jail nameNo — the sheriff's site refers only to 'Jail' / 'this Jail'
Name as the State Department of Health wPAWNEE COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY (OSDH provider ID DET-094)
Jail address500 Harrison Street, Pawnee, OK 74058 — the county courthouse building
Jail phone(918) 762-2565 ext. 2
Sheriff's Office hoursAdministration Mon–Fri 8:30 am–4:30 pm; dispatch 24/7
Population at last state inspection54 (census on 02/24/2026)
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

✗The jail is named — not published
✓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 — not published
✓Phone, video and commissary rates

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Pawnee 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 Shawn Price

NoteNamed on the county's own sheriff page and on the Sheriff's Office site. Cross-checked against the Oklahoma State Election Board 2024 Roster: 'Sheriff - Shawn Price, R, Cleveland'. 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: Pawnee 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 14

Hon. Patrick Pickerill — Associate District Judge, Pawnee County (the only judge resident in Pawnee County)
Hon. Caroline Wall — District Judge, 14th Judicial District, Office 1 (Pawnee and Tulsa; chambers in Tulsa)
Hon. Tracy Priddy — District Judge, 14th Judicial District, Office 3 (Pawnee and Tulsa; chambers in Tulsa)

Pawnee County Courthouse, 500 Harrison Street, Pawnee, OK 74058. Court Clerk Ila Potts, 500 Harrison Street #300, Pawnee, OK 74058, (918) 762-2547.

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 jail is inside the county courthouse at 500 Harrison Street — the same address as the Sheriff's Office, the Court Clerk and the commissioners' mailing address.
The county does not name its jail; only the state does (Pawnee County Detention Facility).
The commissioners page publishes agendas but no approved minutes, and the meetings calendar was stale at the time of checking.
Pawnee is split across two different multi-county boundaries: the 14th Judicial District (with Tulsa) for courts, and District Attorney District 10 (with Osage) for prosecution. Only one judge — Associate District Judge Patrick Pickerill — actually sits in Pawnee County.
The 02/24/2026 state inspection found no deficiencies and the facility in substantial compliance, but the Fire Marshal has set no rated capacity, so the 54-person census cannot be measured against a limit.
The sheriff's FAQs page is published but empty. No PREA page, no death reporting, no budget and no bondsmen list.
The commissioners page lists each district's officeholder, mailing and physical addresses, shop phone, assistant and safety coordinator: District 1 Ron Weaver (Maramec; assistant Brad Tilley, safety coordinator Shawn Farrar), District 2 Joe…

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