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

The Detention Center

Washita County Detention Facility

Operated byWashita County Sheriff's Office
NameWashita County itself never names the jail online. 'Washita County Detention Facility' is the name used by the Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector's FY2024 county audit and by the Oklahoma State Department of Health licensing file (provider ID DET-125).
Address400 N McClary St, New Cordell, OK 73632; non-emergency line (580) 832-2370 (Sheriff's Office). OSDH records '400 N MCCLARY, CORDELL, OK 73632'.
Census at most recent state inspection116 (OSDH unannounced annual inspection plus investigations C-2025-137, C-2025-149 and C-2025-158, February 2, 2026)
Rated capacity142, 'the rated capacity determined by the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal' (OSDH, February 2, 2026)
Most recent state inspection result'No deficient practice was cited. The facility is deemed to be in substantial compliance.' (OSDH, February 2, 2026)
Jail-ST sales tax fund, FY2024Beginning balance $67,442; receipts $410,771; disbursements $437,426; ending balance $40,787 (SAI FY2024 audit)
State inspectionOklahoma inspects this jail. Read the state report →

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

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✗The jail is named — not published
✓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 Washita 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 byVoter-approved three-quarters percent (3/4%) county sales tax, effective June 9, 2009, 'to provide revenue for the retirement of indebtedness incurred for the construction and equipping of a new Washita County Detention Facility and the ope…
Beds142 rated capacity as determined by the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal (OSDH inspection, February 2, 2026). Census 116 on that date.

Since then

'existing jail renovations' were an authorized use of the 3/4% sales tax approved June 9, 2009 (SAI FY2024 audit); no further detail is published.

The Sheriff

Sheriff Kevin Rozell

NoteThe Washita County Sheriff's Office official .gov site publishes a 'Meet the Sheriff' page for 'Sheriff Kevin Rozell' and its homepage message is signed '-Sheriff Kevin Rozell'.

Still needed

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

Source: Washita 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

District Judge Donna Dirickson - Custer County Courthouse, P.O. Box 105, Arapaho, OK 73620, (580) 323-2230; serves the whole 2nd District
Associate District Judge S. Brooke Gatlin - Washita County Courthouse, 111 E. Main St., Cordell, OK 73632, (580) 832-3226
Special Judge Stephanie Jones - Custer County (serves the 2nd District)

Washita County Courthouse, 111 E. Main St., Cordell, OK 73632. Court Clerk Lynda Vermillion, P.O. Box 397, Cordell, OK 73632, (580) 832-3836.

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

DEAD/MISSING COUNTY WEBSITE: Washita County has no county government website. The only official county web presence is the Sheriff's Office at Nothing about the commissioners, county budget, agendas or minutes is published online by the county.
The Sheriff's Office site lists 'Jail' in its navigation, but returns HTTP 404, so the county publishes no jail description or facility name at all. The facility name recorded here comes from the state auditor and OSDH, not from the county.
SHERIFF OF RECORD DIFFERS BY SOURCE: the state audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024 lists Roger Reeve as County Sheriff; the Sheriff's Office site and the state officer roster both give Kevin Rozell.
The FY2024 state audit reported that 43 fixed-asset items assigned to the County Sheriff's office could not be located or identified, and two items belonging to the Sheriff's office were located but not on the inventory. This is recorded here only as the content of the state audit finding.
Every general web result for 'Washita County jail' is an inmate-search aggregator; none were used.

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