The Detention Center
David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center
- Operated byTulsa County Sheriff's Office. TCSO has operated the detention system since July 1, 2005.
- Name as the county writes it'The David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center (DLMCJC), also known as the Tulsa County Jail' (TCSO Detention page). Also written 'David L. Moss Correctional Facility' in the county's own 2014 Detention System Agreement.
- Address300 N. Denver Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74103; phone (918) 596-8900
- Opened1997, with a total capacity of 1,714 beds (TCSO Detention page)
- Current capacity2,020 beds - 'In 2017 an addition of a mental health units and two new open dorm-style units raised total capacity to 2020 beds' (TCSO Detention page)
- Census at most recent state inspection1,544 (Oklahoma State Department of Health unannounced annual inspection, March 2, 2026; provider ID DET-120)
- Rated capacity per State Fire Marshal'the rated capacity has not been determined by the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal' (OSDH, March 2, 2026)
- State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →
Source: Tulsa County — official source · checked August 21, 2026
Transparency rating
7/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✓Who else it holds, and for how much
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1997 - 'The David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center (DLMCJC), also known as the Tulsa County Jail was opened in 1997 with a total capacity of 1714 beds'
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byCounty sales tax administered through the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority, a public trust (Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, October 20, 1995, under Title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes).
- Beds2,020 (1,714 at opening in 1997)
Since then
- 2017 - addition of mental health units and two new open dorm-style units, raising total capacity from 1,714 to 2,020 beds (TCSO Detention page)
- Jail expansion financed by Tulsa County Industrial Authority Series 2014 ($9,595,000) and Series 2015 ($3,100,000) Capital Improvement Revenue Bonds, repaid from a 0.026% sales tax approved by voters in April 2014 (Tulsa County FY2024 ACFR)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Vic Regalado
- NoteNamed on the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office official Administrative Staff page: 'Sheriff Vic Regalado ... Sheriff Regalado was elected to office in April of 2016', email vregalado@tcso.org.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Tulsa 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
- District Judge Douglas Drummond (Tulsa County Courthouse, 500 S. Denver Ave., Rm. 501)
- District Judge Kurt Glassco (500 S. Denver Ave., Rm. 701)
- District Judge Kelly Greenough (500 S. Denver, Rm. 713)
- District Judge David Guten (500 S. Denver Ave., Rm. 413)
- District Judge Rich Hathcoat (500 S. Denver, Rm. 601)
- District Judge Sharon Holmes (500 S. Denver Ave., Rm. 506)
- District Judge Michelle Keely (500 S. Denver Ave., Rm. 406)
- District Judge William LaFortune (500 S. Denver Ave., Rm. 513)
Tulsa County Courthouse, 500 S. Denver Ave., Tulsa, OK 74103. Court Clerk Don Newberry, 500 S. Denver Ave., Tulsa, OK 74103, (918) 596-5000.
- 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
- PUBLIC TRUST: The Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority (TCCJA) is a public trust that administers the funds for the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center and is reported as a discretely presented component unit of Tulsa County.
- FEDERAL DETAINEES: The county's own Detention System Agreement template pegs the municipal housing rate to the U.S. Marshals Service rate ($59 per day per prisoner as of the December 2014 agreement) and adjusts automatically whenever the USMS rate changes.
- INCONSISTENT NAMING: the Sheriff's Office writes 'David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center' (DLMCJC) and 'Tulsa County Jail'; the county's 2014 Detention System Agreement writes 'David L.
- DEATHS IN CUSTODY: no county- or sheriff-published deaths-in-custody log, count or report was found. Individual OSDH investigation numbers prefixed 'D-' appear in the 2026 state inspection report, but the county publishes no death data of its own.
- The county does not publish the state health department's jail inspection reports; those are only available through the OSDH Box folder linked in state_inspection.
- No jail-specific bond/bail schedule is published by the county or the Sheriff's Office; the Sheriff's jail information page describes the booking process and mentions arranging bond but publishes no bond amounts or bondsman list.
- Board of County Commissioners: District 1 Stan Sallee, District 2 Lonnie Sims, District 3 Kelly Dunkerley (2026 Chairman). The Agendas page embeds the county's CivicClerk meeting portal (tulsacook.portal.civicclerk.com).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Tulsa 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.
- Find your polling place — OK Voter Portal →
- Your county election board →
- Register to vote in Oklahoma →
The county election board runs the polling place in Tulsa 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