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

The Detention Center

The county publishes no formal name for this facility.

Operated byNot found
County publishes a jail nameNo — Pushmataha County has no website, so it publishes no jail name, address, roster or policy
Name the state usesPUSHMATAHA COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY
State facility IDDET-100
Address207 SW 3rd, Antlers, OK 74523 (per the state inspection report)
OperatorNot established by any published county record.
Census at last state inspection55 (February 10, 2026)
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Pushmataha 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 Pushmataha 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 B. J. Hedgecock

NotePushmataha County publishes no website of any kind, so no county source for the sheriff's name exists. Name taken from the Oklahoma State Election Board 2024 Roster of State and County Officers, which prints 'Sheriff - B. J. Hedgecock, R, Antlers'.

Still needed

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

Source: Pushmataha 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 17

Hon. Emily Maxwell — District Judge, 17th Judicial District (chambers: McCurtain County Courthouse, 108 N. Central Avenue, Idabel; no district judge is chambered in Pushmataha County)
Hon. Nicholas Tucker — Associate District Judge, Pushmataha County ((580) 298-2553)

Pushmataha County Courthouse, 302 S.W.

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

NO COUNTY WEBSITE. Pushmataha County has no functioning web presence at all — not for the county, not for the sheriff, not for the jail. Every one of the ten transparency checks is therefore false.
Dead official domains: pushmatahacountyok.gov is registered to Pushmataha County (Antlers, OK) in the federal .gov registry but does not resolve; pushcountytreasurer.gov is registered to the Pushmataha County Treasurer but serves only a 114-byte placeholder redirecting to a '/lander' parking page; p…
Unnamed jail: because the county publishes nothing, the facility has no county-published name. The only name on the public record is the state's, 'PUSHMATAHA COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY'.
Sheriff name spelling is inconsistent between the two official sources: 'B. J. Hedgecock' (State Election Board) versus 'B.J Hedgecock' (Oklahoma Sheriffs' Association).
The facility was found NOT in substantial compliance at its February 10, 2026 state inspection.
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

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