The Detention Center
Wagoner County Jail
- Operated byWagoner County Sheriff's Office
- Name as the county writes it'Wagoner County Jail' on the Sheriff's Office jail page; the same page's staff biography refers to the 'Wagoner County Detention Center'
- Address307 E. Cherokee St., Wagoner, OK 74467; jail phone 918-485-7730, jail fax 918-485-7795
- Jail AdministratorMajor Ryan Russell, promoted to Jail Administrator June 14, 2021; 2022 and 2024 Oklahoma Sheriff's Association Jail Administrator of the Year
- Name and address used by the state licenWAGONER COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY, 307 E CHEROKEE ST, WAGONER, OK 74467; provider ID LU-122 (OSDH, survey completed 11/12/2025)
- Census at most recent state inspection98 (OSDH unannounced annual inspection, November 12, 2025)
- Most recent state inspection result'No deficient practice was cited. The facility is deemed to be in substantial compliance' (OSDH, November 12, 2025)
- State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →
Source: Wagoner County — official source · checked August 21, 2026
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
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
The Sheriff
Sheriff Chris Elliott
- NoteThe Wagoner County Sheriff's Office welcome message is signed '-Sheriff Chris Elliott'; the same content is served through the county's own site at Cross-checked against the Oklahoma State Election Board Roster of State and County Officers ('Sheriff - Chris El…
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Wagoner 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
- District Judge Douglas Kirkley - Wagoner County Courthouse, 307 E. Cherokee Street, Wagoner, OK 74467, (918) 485-2144
- Associate District Judge Rebecca Hunter - Wagoner County Courthouse, 307 E Cherokee St, Wagoner, OK (the 2026 Judicial Directory prints the ZIP as 74476; the county's ZIP is 74467)
- Special Judge John Luton - Wagoner County, 307 East Cherokee, Wagoner, OK 74467
Wagoner County Courthouse, 307 E. Cherokee Street, Wagoner, OK 74467. Court Clerk Jim Hight, P.O. Box 249, Wagoner, OK 74467, (918) 485-4508.
- 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
- MISLEADING DOMAIN: wagonercountysheriff.com does not belong to the Sheriff's Office - it issues a 301 redirect to a campaign site. The official Sheriff's Office site is (also mirrored through the county portal at
- INCONSISTENT NAMING: the Sheriff's Office uses 'Wagoner County Jail' on its jail page and 'Wagoner County Detention Center' in the same page's staff biography; the Oklahoma State Department of Health licenses and inspects it as 'WAGONER COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY'.
- The Sheriff's Office jail-faqs page timed out and could not be read; other jail pages loaded normally.
- Wagoner County has no county-published jail capacity figure, PREA policy, deaths-in-custody data, inmate-housing contract, or reproduction of the state inspection reports. The county does publish weekly expenditures by department, which is the strongest budget transparency in this group after Tulsa.
- The 2026 Judicial Directory prints Associate District Judge Rebecca Hunter's address ZIP as 74476; every other Wagoner County entry (including her own district judge's) uses 74467. Treated as a typographical error in the state directory, not a separate location.
- There is also a separate Wagoner municipal police lockup inspected by OSDH ('wagoner pd'); the state_inspection link here is the county facility file, not the police department's.
- Board of County Commissioners: District 1 James Hanning, District 2 Randy Stamps, District 3 Tim Kelley (each with a page under /289/, /291/ and /302/).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Wagoner 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 Wagoner 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