Roger Mills 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 — Roger Mills County has no website, so it publishes no jail name, address, roster or policy
Name the state usesROGER MILLS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY
State facility IDDET-102
Address500 Broadway, Cheyenne, OK 73628 (per the state inspection report)
OperatorNot established by any published county record. Under Oklahoma law the sheriff has power and authority to operate the county jail, but no county document confirming this is published.
Census at last state inspection3 (February 23, 2026) — the smallest census of the ten counties in this group
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

Source: Roger Mills 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 Roger Mills 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 Darren Atha

NoteRoger Mills County publishes no website, so no county source exists.

Still needed

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

Source: Roger Mills 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 2

Hon. Donna Dirickson — District Judge, 2nd Judicial District (chambers: Custer County Courthouse, P.O. Box 105, Arapaho, (580) 323-2230; no district judge is chambered in Roger Mills County)
Hon. F. VerSteeg — Associate District Judge, Roger Mills County ((580) 303-6057). The Judicial Directory prints only the initial 'F.' for the first name; the full given name is not published there.

Roger Mills County Courthouse, 500 East Broadway, Cheyenne, OK 73628 — Court Clerk Jan Bailey, P.O.

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. Roger Mills County has no web presence at all — no county site, no sheriff's office site, and no .gov domain registered to the county in the federal registry. Every one of the ten transparency checks is therefore false.
rogermillscounty.com resolves but is a parked domain: it serves a 114-byte page whose only content is a JavaScript redirect to '/lander'. It is not a county site.
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, 'ROGER MILLS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY'.
The county courthouse address (500 East Broadway) and the jail address recorded by the state (500 Broadway) are the same building.
The county's jail held three people at its February 23, 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 Roger Mills 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 Roger Mills 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