Comanche County Detention Center Inmate Bail & Bonds

State charges get their bail from a district judge. Along with Cotton, Jefferson and Stephens counties, this county makes up Oklahoma's District 5. Judges hear cases on the 4th and 5th floors of the county courthouse, 315 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501. Bond questions go to the Court Clerk's criminal office in Suite 504, 580-355-4017, open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Many small misdemeanors have a quicker route. While the courthouse is closed, the jail can let someone go on the amount in a posted schedule. Felonies, and charges that need a judge, wait for court. Phone the jail at 580-250-1902 to learn which group fits your person.

City charges follow their own track. At the Lawton Municipal Court, 100 S Railroad Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-581-3265, a person who pleads not guilty must appear before the Municipal Judge, post a bond and receive a trial date.

Release in Oklahoma comes in a few forms:

• Cash bond. Someone deposits the whole bail amount with an official who can accept it, and the person goes free (59 O.S. § 1323).
• Surety bond. A bondsman holding a state license stands behind the whole amount in court. What the family pays the bondsman is called the premium.
• Property bond. Instead of cash, the bond is secured by a house or land. Whoever files it pays the recording costs (59 O.S. § 1331).
• Own recognizance. A signed promise to come back to court, with nothing paid at the start (22 O.S. § 1108.1).
• Pretrial release. State law lets courts use bail lists, ankle monitors and release programs with check-ins (22 O.S. § 1105.2, § 1105.3).

To find out whether a pretrial program or monitor is an option for your person, ask the Court Clerk at 580-355-4017.

The county posts a misdemeanor bond list for arrests made while the courthouse is closed. These are its amounts:

• DUI, actual physical control or driving while impaired: $1,000
• Driving under suspension, revocation or cancellation: $1,000
• Marijuana possession: $1,000
• Bogus check: $1,000
• Reckless or careless driving: $750
• Petit larceny, drug paraphernalia, open container or no security verification: $500 each
• Speeding and other minor traffic: $250
• Public drunk: $200

The whole list sits on the county's Weekend Bond Release page. Felonies carry no posted figure, so a judge picks the amount. When a person faces more than one charge, ask the jail at 580-250-1902 for the total.

The Detention Center at 315 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, takes bonds while the courthouse is shut, such as at night and on weekends. It accepts misdemeanor bonds only. Felony bonds can't be posted there. Go step by step:

1. Call 580-250-1902. Spell the person's legal name and give their birth date.
2. Ask whether each charge is on the posted list, and what the total comes to.
3. For DUI, impaired driving or public drunk, ask when the 8-hour wait after booking is over.
4. Carry exact payment. Cash works, and so do money orders and cashier's checks.
5. Ask for a receipt, and keep it safe.

Some people can't bond out at the jail at all. That covers charges with weapons, violence or threats, injury, domestic abuse or assault, stalking, harassment or a broken protective order. It covers warrants too, except bogus check warrants, and anyone already out on another bond. A DUI with injury, property damage or a reading of .15 or higher also waits for a judge.

On weekdays, ask the Court Clerk's criminal office where a bond should be posted, above all for a felony. It sits at 315 SW 5th Street, Suite 504, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-355-4017, with hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday.

• Lawton Municipal Court, 100 S Railroad Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-581-3265, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A city warrant is paid to the court clerk in cash, or by cashier's check, money order, or credit or debit card. After hours, the city tells people to turn themselves in to the police at that same address, 580-581-3270. The Lawton Municipal Jail sits in that police building and takes after-hours city bonds and fines in exact cash; its line is 580-581-3275.
• Cache Municipal Court, 404 West C Street, Cache, OK 73527, 580-429-3354, open Monday to Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It keeps its own misdemeanor and traffic bond schedules.
• Elgin Municipal Court meets once a month in the City Council Chambers, 8183 State Highway 17, Elgin, OK 73538. Call City Hall at 580-492-5777 for details.

The jail lists three ways to pay a bond: cash, money orders and cashier's checks. If you hope to pay some other way, call 580-250-1902 before leaving home.

The city court in Lawton accepts cards for city warrants, along with cash, cashier's checks and money orders. Its online payment page is built for certain city police tickets. It adds a 3% card fee, at least $0.95, and needs 72 to 96 hours to process. For a bond, call the court at 580-581-3265 first.

Scam calls happen. The Sheriff's Office warns that it never asks for money by phone. Hang up on any caller who demands bail that way, and never put cash in the mail.

Bail bondsmen in Oklahoma answer to the state Insurance Department, which licenses, supervises and disciplines them. Working as a bondsman without a license breaks the law (59 O.S. § 1303). Each one also has to register with a county's court clerk before backing bonds there (59 O.S. § 1320).

• Before the bond is filed, the premium has to be written on it. The bondsman owes you a receipt with its own number (59 O.S. § 1316).
• Once the person is out of custody, the premium is earned. When release never happens, you are owed a prompt return of the premium and of any collateral (59 O.S. § 1327).
• No jailer or police officer may serve as a bondsman (59 O.S. § 1315).
• Bondsmen can be disciplined for chasing clients at the jail or other places where prisoners are kept (59 O.S. § 1310).

Look up a license with the state's bail bondsman license search. The department's bail bond division works from 400 NE 50th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-521-6610.

Each bond is tied to one charge, nothing more. Several other things can hold a person:

• Another Oklahoma agency's hold. If a different county or city also wants the person, a 2025 law lets the family post that bond as well so the hold drops (HB 1991).
• A Lawton city warrant. It needs its own bond at the Municipal Court, 100 S Railroad Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-581-3265.
• Repeat DUI. On a second or later DUI, no officer may free the person until a judge has set bail with written findings (HB 1222).
• Another bond already in place. Someone out on bond in a different case can't use the jail's weekend release.
• A federal, immigration or state prison hold. Each follows its own rules and can outlast a paid bond.

Before you pay anything, ring the jail at 580-250-1902 and have staff list each hold and warrant they show.

Most people charged with a crime in Oklahoma have a right to bail (Okla. Const. art. II § 8). Denial is allowed only for the charges below:

• a capital crime, when the proof is strong
• a violent offense
• a charge whose top sentence is life behind bars
• a new felony after at least two past felony convictions, each from a different incident
• a drug crime with a top sentence of at least 10 years
• a third or later felony DUI, added in 2025 (SB 981)

Except in capital cases, the judge also has to be convinced the case is strong and that no conditions could make release safe for the community or anyone in it. Bail that is set too high is forbidden (Okla. Const. art. II § 9). The District Attorney's office argues these hearings from the courthouse, 315 SW 5th Street, Room 502, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-585-4444.

A bond can be looked at again. The usual path is a written request, called a motion, that the defense lawyer files with the judge on the case. Since the state constitution bans excessive bail, the request explains why the amount is more than needed (Okla. Const. art. II § 9).

1. Line up a lawyer. From inside, ask a jail officer for the form that requests appointed counsel.
2. Gather pay stubs, a lease or other proof of a local address, names of close relatives and a figure the family can actually afford.
3. Offer safeguards the judge might accept, for example check-ins or a monitor.
4. Plan for the alleged victim's voice. Under Marsy's Law, victims may speak at hearings about release (Okla. Const. art. II § 34).

To learn when a bond hearing is on the calendar, call the Court Clerk at 580-355-4017.

A lawyer must be offered in any felony, and in any misdemeanor that might bring jail time. The Court of Criminal Appeals made this clear in 2025 in Spybuck v. State. In this county, most such lawyers are assigned through the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System (OIDS), whose regional office at 1318 SW Lee Blvd, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-595-7990, serves this county plus Cotton, Jefferson and Stephens.

• Forms are handed out by the Court Clerk at 315 SW 5th Street, Suite 504, Lawton, OK 73501. People in jail ask jail staff for the form.
• A district judge decides who qualifies, using a form that lists income, property and debts. Whether the person could post bail is one factor, never the only one (22 O.S. § 1355A).
• The $40 filing charge is paid into the Court Fund. If money is tight, ask to defer it to the end of the case.
• Phoning OIDS won't get a lawyer assigned. The judge appoints OIDS.

Nearly every criminal case from this county is heard in the county seat. Use the room numbers to reach the right office:

• District Court (felonies, misdemeanors, traffic and wildlife cases), 4th and 5th floors, 315 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501. The Court Clerk's criminal office is in Suite 504, 580-355-4017, weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Lawton Municipal Court (city ordinance and traffic cases), 100 S Railroad Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-581-3265.
• Cache Municipal Court, 404 West C Street, Cache, OK 73527, 580-429-3354.
• Elgin Municipal Court, City Council Chambers, 8183 State Highway 17, Elgin, OK 73538, reached through City Hall at 580-492-5777.
• Federal courthouse, part of the Western District of Oklahoma (federal charges), 410 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-355-6340. Few staff work there, so call before you go.

A ticket written in some other town may sit with that town's own judge. Ask its town office, or phone the Court Clerk, to find out where it is filed.

Money posted as cash bail goes back to the payer when the case is finished or the person is surrendered (59 O.S. § 1328). Save every receipt. Call the Court Clerk at 580-355-4017 to ask how refunds are paid and whether fines or costs come out first.

Skipping court sets off a forfeiture under 59 O.S. § 1332:

• Within 10 days of declaring the bond forfeited, the court must put out a warrant for the person's arrest.
• A written judgment of forfeiture is due within 15 days. The clerk's notice follows no more than 30 days later.
• Ninety days from that order is the bondsman's deadline to produce the person. Meeting it erases the forfeiture and frees the bond.
• Miss that window, and the bondsman must pay the bond's face amount to the clerk in cash or securities.

Municipal bonds are lost faster. A city judge forfeits the bond on the same day as the missed date, and the court may take its costs from that money (11 O.S. § 27-118).

Items a person can't keep inside are locked in a secure area of the jail for the length of the stay. When release comes, staff must confirm the person's identity, match the belongings to the intake inventory and have the person sign for them (OAC 310:670-5-1).

Collecting property or leftover account money for someone else? Call the Detention Center first at 580-250-1902. Ask what the person must sign, which hours to come and what ID to carry to 315 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501. For deposits and refunds in general, see our page on jail account money.

Federal cases from southwest Oklahoma belong to the Western District of Oklahoma's federal court. Its clerk keeps an office at 410 SW 5th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-355-6340, open weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The district's main courthouse stands at 200 NW 4th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5000.

1. Early in the case, a federal judge weighs whether the accused can wait for trial at home (18 U.S.C. 3142).
2. The pretrial side is handled by U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services, at 410 SW 5th Street, Room 101, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-353-0387.
3. Until the trial, deputy marshals keep the person in their charge. The U.S. Marshals Service district office is at 200 Northwest 4th Street, Room 2022, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-231-4206. The county Detention Center houses people for federal agencies as well.
4. Transfers between federal sites can route through the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73169, 405-682-4075.
5. Once a prison term is imposed, use the BOP's online prisoner search.

No. Bond money settles the state side only, and the immigration hold stays. Here is the usual order:

1. Federal immigration agents (ICE) send the jail a written request on Form I-247A. People call it a detainer.
2. The hold runs, at most, up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). ICE uses that time to arrange a pickup.
3. Oklahoma cases are run by ICE's Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200. ICE's Oklahoma City office is at 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108, 405-219-3199.
4. People in ICE custody may be housed at Cimarron Correctional Facility, 3200 S. Kings Hwy., Cushing, OK 74023, information line 918-225-3336.
5. Type the person's details into ICE's Online Detainee Locator.

State law adds HB 4156 (21 O.S. § 1795), which created a crime called impermissible occupation for people here without legal authorization. A federal judge has barred the state from enforcing it, and that order stays in place while Oklahoma's appeal is pending.

Prison terms for Oklahoma felonies are carried out by the Department of Corrections (DOC). The move takes a while. DOC says people normally wait 6 to 9 months after sentencing before they are moved from the county jail. Those with very short sentences often go first.

DOC's reception center comes next. There, a score based on the crime and the sentence decides the custody level and the right prison.

• Enter a name in DOC's Offender Lookup to see the current prison.
• Addresses and phones for every lockup sit on our Oklahoma state prisons list.
• DOC's main office is at 4345 North Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-425-2500.

Minors do not stay in the adult jail. Intake and probation here are handled by a county Juvenile Bureau. Just four Oklahoma counties have one, while the rest rely on the state Office of Juvenile Affairs. An adult jail may hold a minor for six hours at most, for identifying, processing or moving them, with no sustained sight or sound contact with adults (OAC 310:670-5-5).

• Youth who must be detained go to the county's Regional Juvenile Detention Center, 701 SW 17th Street, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-357-2250. It takes boys and girls ages 12 to 18, on a judge's order only.
• Reach the Juvenile Bureau at 315 SW 5th Street, Room 200, Lawton, OK 73501, 580-357-4881, to find out where your child is held and the hearing date.
• A detention screening takes place in the first two days, ahead of the initial detention hearing.
• The Youthful Offender Act covers 15, 16 and 17 year olds charged with serious crimes. Through certification, a judge may also move a case to adult court.