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

The Detention Center

Sequoyah County Jail

Operated bySequoyah County Sheriff's Office
Name as the county writes itSequoyah County Jail — used as the heading of the Sheriff's Office inmate search, 'Inmate Search – Sequoyah County Jail'
Name the state usesSEQUOYAH COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY — differs from the county's usage
State facility IDDET-110
Address119 B South Oak St, Sallisaw, OK 74955 (per the state inspection report); the Sheriff's Office address is 119 South Oak Street
Operator basisThe county sheriff page recites the sheriff's statutory power 'to operate the county jail'
Census at last state inspection85 (August 13, 2026)
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Sequoyah 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 Larry Lane

NoteThe county's own sheriff page heads the entry 'Sheriff Larry Lane'. His published biography states he was elected in 2016 and took office January 1, 2017.

Still needed

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

Source: Sequoyah 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 15

Hon. Jeffrey J.
Hon. Timothy King — District Judge, 15th Judicial District (chambers: Muskogee County Courthouse, 220 State Street, (918) 687-6388)
Hon. Bret Smith — District Judge, 15th Judicial District (chambers: Muskogee County Courthouse, (918) 687-1950)
Hon. Douglas Kirkley — District Judge, 15th Judicial District (chambers: Wagoner County Courthouse, 307 E. Cherokee Street, (918) 485-2144)
Hon. Kyle Waters — Associate District Judge, Sequoyah County ((918) 775-4262)
Hon. Matt Orendorff — Special Judge, Sequoyah County ((918) 775-4613)

Sequoyah County Courthouse, 120 E. Chickasaw St., Sallisaw, OK 74955 — Court Clerk Melanie Edgmon, Ste. 205, (918) 775-4411

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 county and the state use different names: the Sheriff's Office says 'Sequoyah County Jail'; the Oklahoma State Department of Health inspection report is headed 'SEQUOYAH COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY'.
The facility was found NOT in substantial compliance at its August 13, 2026 state inspection — the most recent inspection of any county in this group.
Sequoyah County has no .gov domain registered in the federal registry, for either the county or the sheriff. The county uses the KellPro-hosted sequoyah.okcounties.org; the Sheriff's Office uses scsok.org.
No single board-of-commissioners landing page exists; the three commissioner districts have separate pages and no combined board page.
The Sheriff's Office publishes a 'Jail FAQs Hub' page, but it currently returns 'Oops! No Matching Answers Found' with no FAQ entries.
The county fee schedule at contains no sheriff or jail section, so `fees` is false; the bid page carries no jail-related procurement, so `contracts` is false.
Sequoyah County publishes no single 'Board of County Commissioners' page — only three separate district pages (/offices/commissioner-district-1, -2 and -3) listed under /offices.

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