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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byPontotoc County Sheriff's Office
County publishes a jail nameNo — the county sheriff page discusses the jail generically ('The Sheriff shall have charge and custody of the jail in their county and all of the prisoners.
Name the state usesPONTOTOC COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY
State facility IDDET098
Address1814 North Broadway, Ada, OK 74820 (per the state inspection report; the county publishes no jail address)
Census at last state inspection125 (February 17, 2026)
Rated capacityNot determined by the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal, per the 2026 state inspection report
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

1/10Closed

✗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 — not published
✗How to post bond — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Pontotoc 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 Arnold Scott

NoteConfirmed identically by the county sheriff page (which states 'In office since January 02, 2025'), the Oklahoma State Election Board 2024 roster and the Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association directory. Undersheriff Shannon Butler.

Still needed

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

Source: Pontotoc 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 22

Hon. Steve Kessinger — District Judge, 22nd Judicial District (chambers: Pontotoc County Courthouse, (580) 332-8940)
Hon. Brett Butner — District Judge, 22nd Judicial District (chambers: Seminole County Courthouse, Wewoka)
Hon. Lori Jackson — Associate District Judge, Pontotoc County
Hon. Greg Pollard — Special Judge, Pontotoc County

Pontotoc County Courthouse, 120 W. 13th Street, Ada, OK 74820 (judicial chambers give the ZIP as 74821) — Court Clerk Lacee Flanary, (580) 332-5763

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

Unnamed jail: Pontotoc County operates a detention facility but publishes no name, no address and no page for it. The only county-published detention content is a daily inmate list hosted under the sheriff's department section.
Two dead official domains: pontotoccountyok.gov (registered to Pontotoc County, Ada, OK) does not resolve; pontotocsheriff-ok.gov (registered to Pontotoc County Sheriff's Office) resolves only to a 114-byte placeholder that redirects to a '/lander' parking page.
The county's fee schedule at contains no sheriff or jail section, so `fees` is false. The bid page contains no jail-related procurement, so `contracts` is false.
No county-published capacity, budget, in-custody death record, PREA material, or inspection report was found.
The `inspections` check counts only county-published inspection reports. No county in this group republishes its Oklahoma State Department of Health jail inspection; all ten are available only from the OSDH statewide Box folder at
Commissioners (2024 Election Board roster): District 1 Gary D. Starns, District 2 Danny Davis, District 3 Victor Bolen. The /meetings page carries Board of County Commissioners agendas and minutes filterable by year back to 2019.

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