Texas County Inmate Population Snapshot
The Texas County inmate population is not published through a live official dashboard. The most useful adult jail figures found in the research come from two outside data sources, each tied to a different point in time. Prisoners of the Census lists Texas County Detention Center with 60 local persons in source data dated 12/31/2013. Vera Institute's People in Jail and Prison 2022 data lists Texas County Sheriff's Department, Oklahoma, with a jail population of 43 in 2021-q4. Those numbers are not a current roster count, but they give a sourced range for the local jail population when the sheriff's website does not publish today's total.
Texas County is rural and large by Oklahoma standards. The official county history says it covers 2,049 square miles, with Guymon as the county seat and Hooker, Goodwell, Texhoma, Tyrone, Hardesty, and Optima among the communities that may send arrestees into the county custody process. A jail count in the 40 to 60 range can still represent a meaningful custody rate because U.S. Census QuickFacts reports 21,384 people in the 2020 Census and an estimated 20,577 people on July 1, 2024.
Texas County Inmate Population Statistics
The Texas County inmate population statistics have to be stated with care. The current sheriff page confirms the sheriff's jail role and contact information, but it does not post an official rated capacity, live population dashboard, annual booking count, adult average length of stay, or demographic table. Multiple third-party pages claim a 96-bed capacity, but the research excluded those claims because they were not verified by official county or state sources.
For a rate context, the Vera 2021-q4 count of 43 divided by the 2020 Census population of 21,384 equals about 201 jailed persons per 100,000 residents. That is a calculated rate from sourced figures, not a county-published rate. It should not be used as a live count for a bond decision, release question, or same-day inmate lookup.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Adult jail population | 43 | Vera People in Jail and Prison 2022, 2021-q4 |
| Local correctional population marker | 60 | Prisoners of the Census, source data dated 12/31/2013 |
| Estimated jail rate | About 201 per 100,000 residents | Calculated from Vera 2021-q4 count and 2020 Census population |
| Current official jail capacity | Not published | Texas County sheriff page checked in research |
| Annual adult bookings | Not located | Official adult jail sources reviewed |
Texas County Inmate Population Trends
The trend record is thin for the adult jail because Texas County does not publish a year-by-year jail census. The available figures still show why the current population must be verified directly with the jail. The older Prisoners of the Census marker gives one historical count. Vera gives a later adult jail count. For juveniles, Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs board material gives admissions and average length of stay for the Hooker juvenile detention facility, but that is a separate juvenile system and should not be mixed into the adult jail roster.
| Year / Period | Population or Activity | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 12/31/2013 source data | 60 local persons | Prisoners of the Census Texas County Detention Center entry |
| FY2019 juvenile | 60 admissions, 14-day average stay | OJA board packet for Texas Detention in Hooker |
| FY2020 current juvenile | 46 admissions, 19-day average stay | OJA material during the bed-reduction period |
| 2021-q4 adult/local | 43 jail population | Vera data for Texas County Sheriff's Department |
| 2026 current adult jail | Not published online | No official roster or dashboard located |
Current verification still starts with the sheriff's office. A person arrested by a deputy, Guymon police officer, Hooker police officer, state trooper, or another authorized officer may be booked locally if the matter is an adult county jail case. Juveniles, sentenced state prisoners, federal defendants, and immigration detainees follow different systems.
Who Counts in Texas County Jail
The adult Texas County inmate population mainly covers people held before trial, people serving short local sentences, and people held on warrants or court commitments. The research did not locate official local breakdowns by sex, race, age, charge level, or hold type. It also did not locate a current list showing how many people are held for another county, the state, federal authorities, or ICE.
That absence is important. A county jail count is not the same as the state prison count. If a Texas County case ends in an Oklahoma Department of Corrections sentence, the person normally moves out of the county jail count after transfer. If a federal case is involved, the U.S. Marshals and Bureau of Prisons systems may apply. If immigration custody is involved, ICE's locator is the right search path after transfer or qualifying custody.
- Pretrial detainee
- A person held after arrest while the court case is still pending.
- Detainer
- A hold from another agency, such as another county, DOC, USMS, or ICE.
- DOC custody
- Oklahoma state corrections custody after a qualifying sentence or supervision event.
- Jail register
- The booking or jail blotter information recorded when a person is incarcerated.
Texas County Jail Capacity Rules
The Texas County sheriff page does not publish a rated capacity for the current jail. The safest public wording is that no current official capacity was located. Older correctional-population data and Vera's 2021-q4 count help describe population scale, but they do not prove how many beds the jail is rated to operate today.
Oklahoma law gives the public-record and jail-standards context. The Oklahoma Open Records Act is the baseline public-records law. The Oklahoma Attorney General's law-enforcement open-records guidance says jail registers, jail blotters, and booking information recorded at incarceration are among the law-enforcement records open for public inspection. The Oklahoma Jail Standards Act and Oklahoma jail standards rules provide the statewide inspection and operations framework.
Records law point: Oklahoma open-records guidance treats jail-register facts such as name, date and cause of commitment, committing authority, criminal-offense status, and prisoner description as public law-enforcement information.
Search Texas County Inmate Population
No official Texas County online jail roster, recent-booking list, searchable inmate profile, or public mugshot gallery was located on the county website or sheriff page. The search path therefore starts with the Texas County Sheriff's Office and then branches by record type. Current custody is a jail question. Formal charges are a court-record question. Sentenced prison custody is an ODOC question. Federal and immigration custody use federal systems.
The official Texas County sheriff page lists Sheriff Matt Boley, Undersheriff Benji Fuentes, the sheriff/jail address, the main phone number, fax numbers, email, and office hours. That page is the verified county contact point when no roster link exists. The county page also states that the sheriff has authority to operate the county jail, apprehend and secure persons charged with felonies or breach of peace, and serve warrants and court papers ordered by District Court.
- Call the sheriff's office and ask whether the person is currently housed at Texas County Jail.
- Have the full name, date of birth or age, arrest date, and arresting agency ready before calling.
- Ask how to submit an Oklahoma Open Records Act request if a booking record, jail-register entry, or mugshot is needed.
- Search ODCR or OSCN for filed Texas County District Court cases after charges appear.
- Use ODOC, VINE, BOP, or ICE only when the custody type fits those systems.
Current Texas County Inmate Lookup
A current Texas County inmate lookup does not begin with a county-hosted search form because none was found in the official sources. The fallback search fields are the details a jail records clerk or records custodian is most likely to need. For a recent arrest, allow time for transport, intake, identity confirmation, fingerprints, booking photo, charges or holds entry, bond review, and housing classification.
| Lookup Detail | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| No official online roster located | n/a | n/a | County and sheriff pages list contact details but no inmate search form. |
| Full legal name | Phone, in person, or open-records request | Usually needed | Include spelling variants and middle name when known. |
| Date of birth or age | Identifier | Helpful | Useful for common names. |
| Booking or arrest date | Event detail | Helpful | Helps staff locate recent or older booking information. |
| Court case number | ODCR or OSCN detail | Optional | Use once charges have been filed or a warrant case exists. |
The official sheriff page screenshot in the local research confirms the county contact block and sheriff duties that support this fallback chain.
Because the sheriff page supplies the verified address and phone but no public roster link, the page supports phone, in-person, and records-request routing rather than a direct online roster search.
Texas County Inmate Records
Since no official online jail profile was available for inspection, Texas County inmate records should be requested by the fields Oklahoma law and AG guidance identify as jail-register or booking information. These fields are different from ODOC prison fields and different from court docket fields. A court docket may show a case number and filed charges, while the jail register shows the incarceration event.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name of prisoner | The person's name as recorded at incarceration. |
| Date of commitment | The booking or commitment date in the jail register. |
| Cause of commitment | The reason for custody, such as an arrest charge, warrant, hold, or court order. |
| Committing authority | The court or agency that committed the person to custody. |
| Description of prisoner | Physical or identifying description recorded at booking. |
| Booking photograph | Generally treated as a public record under Oklahoma AG Opinion 2012-22, but not posted in an official Texas County gallery. |
| Bond or hold | May need confirmation from the jail and the Texas County District Court docket. |
Court Records After Booking
After a Texas County arrest, jail booking information and court records begin to separate. The jail records the custody event. The district attorney reviews reports and decides what formal charges to file. The Texas County Court Clerk maintains District Court records, and the county court clerk page links users to ODCR and OSCN for docket searches.
ODCR has Texas County as a court option and criminal case types such as felony, misdemeanor, probable cause, proceedings not filed, search warrants, traffic, and youthful offender. OSCN allows court selection, case-number search, party-name search, date limits, party type filters, and criminal case-type limits. These systems help find filed charges, bond events, hearings, warrants, dispositions, and payments where available, but they are not the county jail roster.
Texas County Jail vs Prison
The Texas County inmate population search must match the custody system. County jail, state prison, federal custody, and immigration detention are separate. Searching the wrong locator can make a person look missing even when the custody record exists elsewhere.
| Custody Type | Who It Covers | Where to Look |
|---|---|---|
| Texas County Jail | Adult pretrial detainees, short local sentences, warrants, holds, and local commitments | Sheriff phone, in person, and open-records request |
| Oklahoma DOC | Sentenced state prisoners and state correctional custody | OK Offender Lookup |
| Oklahoma VINE | Custody status and notification where supported | Oklahoma VINELink |
| Federal custody | Federal prisoners from 1982 to present and BOP-designated inmates | BOP Inmate Locator |
| Immigration custody | People in ICE custody or CBP custody more than 48 hours | ICE Online Detainee Locator |
State and Federal Inmate Search
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is the state prison agency. Its agency homepage links to offender lookup, sex offender lookup, violent offender lookup, policies, PREA, and open records. No ODOC prison was found inside Texas County, so state custody should be searched statewide. The OK Offender Lookup requires accepting a disclaimer and uses fields such as DOC number, first name, last name, date of birth, alias data, and similar-sounding names.
Federal and immigration searches also sit outside the county jail. The BOP locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to present, including people who may later be assigned to facilities such as FCI El Reno or FTC Oklahoma City, neither of which is in Texas County. The U.S. Marshals Western District of Oklahoma may be involved before a federal defendant appears in BOP systems. ICE's locator should be used when immigration custody is possible.
The ODOC Basic Search page shows why state prison lookup is a separate process from county jail lookup.
A Texas County arrestee will not appear in the DOC search just because they were booked into the county jail. The state search becomes useful after state sentencing or an existing DOC custody event.
Texas County Detention Facilities
The Texas County inmate population facility map has two entries, but they do not serve the same public search need. The adult jail is the primary local detention point. The Hooker juvenile facility is a separate juvenile detention facility with a major current-operation caveat from 2020 OJA material.
- Texas County Jail - the adult county jail operated by the Texas County Sheriff's Office for local arrests, pretrial detention, short local sentences, warrants, and holds.
- Texas County Juvenile Detention Center - a juvenile facility in Hooker identified in OJA materials, with contracted beds reduced from six to zero in 2020 and current operation requiring verification.
No state prison, BOP federal prison, or ICE detention center was found physically inside Texas County. Searches for those custody types should use the statewide or federal locators rather than assuming the person is housed locally.
Mugshots and Jail Services
Texas County does not publish an official mugshot gallery or daily booking-photo report in the sources reviewed. Oklahoma AG Opinion 2012-22, summarized in Oklahoma Senate material, treats booking photographs as generally public records because they describe an arrestee's physical features. For Texas County, that means a booking photo request should go through the sheriff's office as an open-records request, not through commercial mugshot sites.
Jail services are also limited online. The verified vendor page is Tiger Commissary for Texas County OK Jail, which offers Web Deposits and Order Commissary. Visitation schedules, mail rules, phone vendors, video visits, and money-order policies were not published in the official sheriff materials. Confirm those details with the jail before sending money, mailing property, or traveling for a visit.
Texas County Jail History
The official Texas County about page gives a local custody detail that does not appear on generic jail pages. The county courthouse at 319 N. Main in Guymon is a four-story red brick building designed by Maurice Jaynes and built by Kriepke Construction Co. It opened in 1927. The county says the fourth floor used to function as a jail and is now used for storage because a new jail was built.
That history helps explain why the current sheriff and jail contact is on S. Ellison while court offices remain at the courthouse. Booking and custody questions route to the sheriff's office. Filed charges, docket records, and certified case copies route to the court clerk at the courthouse.
The county history page documents the courthouse context used for this local jail history.
The courthouse note is historical context only. It does not replace current jail confirmation through the Texas County Sheriff's Office.
Texas County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Texas County inmate population?
The current official count was not published online in the sources reviewed. The best sourced adult figures are 43 in Vera's 2021-q4 data for Texas County Sheriff's Department and 60 in Prisoners of the Census source data dated 12/31/2013. Call the sheriff's office for a current same-day count or custody check.
Can the Texas County jail roster be searched online?
No official Texas County online jail roster was located on the county or sheriff website. Current custody confirmation should start with the sheriff's main number, followed by an open-records request when a booking or jail-register record is needed.
Where do Texas County court charges appear?
Filed criminal charges appear through Texas County District Court records after prosecutor and court action. ODCR is linked from the official court clerk page, and OSCN is the statewide docket search. These court systems do not replace jail custody confirmation.
Are Texas County mugshots online?
An official county mugshot gallery was not located. Oklahoma law and AG guidance generally treat booking photos as public records, but Texas County requests should go through the sheriff's office rather than commercial mugshot publishers.
What if the person is not in Texas County Jail?
Search by custody type. Use ODOC for sentenced state prisoners, VINE for custody notifications, BOP for federal prisoners, and ICE for immigration custody. Juvenile records are more restricted and should not be searched through an adult jail roster.