The online list is short and simple, so a few steps will do it:

1. Open the Active Inmates list and give it a moment, since the rows fill in after the page opens.
2. Press Ctrl+F on a computer, or use the phone browser's search-in-page option, and enter the surname.
3. Check the first and middle names too. Two people can share a last name.
4. Note the booking date. It tells you how long the person has been held.
5. Copy the spelling exactly, which helps staff pull the right record.

Charges and bond amounts come by phone from the jail office at 580-548-2429. The jail's website also points visitors to the state court records site and the prison system's offender search.

A name can be absent from the list for several ordinary reasons:

• Intake isn't finished. Fingerprinting, the booking photo and the forms can eat up hours.
• Released. The bond got paid, or a judge signed a release order.
• Transferred. Another county, a state prison or federal agents may now have them.
• A different spelling. Try the person's nickname or birth surname, or put the middle name first.
• A minor. Under-18 arrests are sent to juvenile detention instead.

Oklahoma treats jail registers and booking records as public (51 O.S. § 24A.8(A)(8)), so staff can usually tell you if someone was booked. Call 580-548-2429 to ask.

The South 10th Street jail is the only adult county jail here. Two other kinds of places can cause mix-ups:

• Enid Community Corrections Center, 2020 E. Maine Avenue, Enid, OK 73701, 580-977-3800. This 98-bed state site holds adult men already serving DOC sentences, not new arrests. Approved visitors may come Saturdays, Sundays and state holidays, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• Federal holds may be sent to the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73169, 405-682-4075.

Arrests close to the edge of the county sometimes go to a nearby jail instead:

• Alfalfa County Jail, 300 S. Grand Ave, Suite 1, Cherokee, OK 73728, 580-596-3269
• Grant County Jail, 219 N. First St., Medford, OK 73759, 580-395-2356
• Kingfisher County Jail, 1001 Victory Lane, Kingfisher, OK 73750, 405-375-2789
• Major County Jail, 500 East Broadway, Fairview, OK 73737, 580-227-4471
• Noble County Jail, 721 Cedar Street, Perry, OK 73077, 580-336-3517
• Logan County Detention Center, 216 South Broad Street, Guthrie, OK 73044, 405-282-4100

The online list sticks to names and booking dates. Photos are a separate request. Anyone, a reporter included, may phone the jail office at 580-548-2429 and ask how a photo request is handled.

Oklahoma's Open Records Act opens up arrest facts, such as the person's description and the reason for the arrest, plus jail booking data (51 O.S. § 24A.8). The law doesn't name booking photos, so staff decide how to handle those requests.

• For ICE photos or files, file a request through the agency's FOIA records portal.
• Photos taken by federal agencies usually stay private. One exception: the Marshals may publish a picture while hunting a fugitive.

OK VINE is the state's free custody notice system. The Attorney General's victim services unit runs it, yet anyone may sign up. A search also names the place holding the person and says if they are still locked up.

1. Open VINELink for Oklahoma and enter a name.
2. Choose the correct match, then set up alerts by text, email, call or the app.
3. Prefer the phone? Register at 877-654-8463.

Notices cover transfers, escapes, recaptures, releases and deaths, but not parole. A move into the prison system brings a new ID number, so plan to register again. For help with VINE, call 405-521-3921.

Most people booked here have a right to be released on bail (Okla. Const. art. II § 8). A District Court judge sets the amount. The bond can be paid in full in cash, backed by a licensed bondsman for a fee, secured with property, or replaced by a signed promise to return.

• Anyone held on a repeat DUI waits for a judge to name the bail.
• A hold from another Oklahoma court can be cleared by paying that court's bond there (HB 1991).
• Immigration and federal holds stay in place after a state bond.

The jail office at 580-548-2429 can give the current amount. Our bond and release page walks through each payment option and the offices that take money.

Because the online list shows only names and dates, charges take a call or a records search. Here are three ways:

• Ask jail staff at 580-548-2429. The cause of an arrest and the arresting officer's name are public under state law (51 O.S. § 24A.8(A)(2)).
• After prosecutors file, the case turns up by name on OSCN or ODCR. The Court Clerk at 580-237-0232 can help too.
• City charges filed by Enid police show on the city's municipal case search.

A charge at booking is only the starting point. The prosecutor may file a different charge, or none.

From inside, the person tells a jail officer they want the form for a court-appointed lawyer. The Court Clerk's office keeps it on file. Then a judge weighs the person's earnings, bills and belongings to decide eligibility (22 O.S. § 1355A). There is a $40 fee for the court fund, which may be put off to the end on request.

When the judge approves, the case goes to the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System (OIDS). Its local trial office is at 205 W Maple Ave, Suite 410, Enid, OK 73701, 580-977-2040.

Federal defendants are helped by the Federal Public Defender, 215 Dean A. McGee Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5930.

Yes. The jail offers phone and video visitation for people in custody. Schedules, sign-up steps and ID rules can change, so call the jail office at 580-548-2429 before your first visit.

State jail standards set the floor. Those standards (OAC 310:670-5-9) let a jail trim visit time or group size for safety reasons only. Kids are welcome when their parent, or a legal guardian, comes too.

When you call, ask what ID to bring and what dress rules apply. Our visitation page explains video and in-person visits in more detail.

The jail links two online services for families. One funds phone, video and text accounts. The other handles commissary orders and deposits to the person's account for snacks, hygiene items and other store goods.

• Our deposit guide covers adding money to an account.
• Our commissary page explains store orders and care packages.
• For deposits in person or by mail, ask the jail office at 580-548-2429 what it accepts.

Keep each confirmation number. Never put cash in an envelope.

OAC 310:670-5-1 promises each new arrival two or more calls, collect or local, once intake reaches a fair stopping point. That first call home often comes the same day.

After that, calls, video visits and text messages run on a prepaid account. Families fund it through the online service the jail links.

Treat every jail call as if others can hear it. Save case talk for the lawyer. Learn the details on our jail calling guide and our electronic messages page.

Send letters to the person's full legal name at the jail's street address, 1020 South 10th Street, Enid, OK 73701. Before your first letter, ask the jail office at 580-548-2429 whether a booking or inmate number should go on the envelope, and what items are allowed.

• Oklahoma's jail rules set no cap on the volume of mail. Staff may open mail to check for contraband (OAC 310:670-5-9).
• Court and attorney mail may be opened only while the person watches. Legal mail they send out stays sealed.
• Write a return address on the outside every time.

Our jail mail page lists common do's and don'ts.

What the person carried at arrest is written on an inventory and held in storage. On release day, staff confirm identity and the release paperwork, hand back each listed item and have the person sign for it, as the state's jail standards direct.

Picking up things for someone who is still held? Phone 580-548-2429 during office hours, weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ask whether the person must sign off on the pickup, and which ID staff want to see.

Items taken as evidence by Enid police are a different matter. The department's property and evidence unit is at 401 West Owen K. Garriott Road, Enid, OK 73701, 580-616-1821.

State law requires adequate medical care in Oklahoma jails, covering sickness or injury that starts at arrest or during the jail stay (74 O.S. § 192(A)(9)). Jail standards add these steps:

• Each new arrival is checked for health problems at intake.
• Staff explain the steps for getting seen by medical staff.
• A written request for care starts a clock. Licensed medical staff have 48 hours to see the person, less if it is urgent (OAC 310:670-5-8).

Let the jail office at 580-548-2429 know of any illness, prescription or recent injury you're aware of. For a true emergency involving someone not yet in jail, call 911.

The county Sheriff's Office handles warrant service from 216 W. Oxford Ave., Enid, OK 73701. A phone call to 580-237-0244, asking for Records/warrants, is the quickest check. Three state and federal fugitive pages are worth a look: the Attorney General's 10 Most Wanted, the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted and the DOC Orange Alert escape notices. Pending court cases appear on OSCN. A person with a warrant is wise to talk with a lawyer first. Then they can surrender to the court behind it, or ask that court about posting a bond or picking a new date. The District Court Clerk's counter is at 114 W. Broadway Ave., Enid, OK 73701, 580-237-0232.

State cases are on OSCN and ODCR, both free. Search by last name and look for the docket, which lists each hearing. Ask the Court Clerk at 580-237-0232 if a date seems missing or wrong.

City tickets and charges are on the municipal case search. That court is at 401 West Owen K. Garriott Road, Enid, OK 73701, 580-234-0400.

A person in jail is brought to court by the Sheriff's Office, which handles transports to court. Our court guide explains each hearing type.

A federal case from the county belongs to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, 200 NW 4th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, 405-609-5000. A judge there holds a detention hearing to rule on release before trial (18 U.S.C. 3142).

• From arrest until trial, custody of a federal defendant belongs to the U.S. Marshals Service. To learn which facility has the person, call 405-231-4206. The office is at 200 Northwest 4th Street, Room 2022, Oklahoma City, OK 73102.
• Many people pass through the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73169. Visits there are Saturdays, Sundays and federal holidays, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with no entry after 2:00 p.m.
• Mail for someone held there goes to Federal Transfer Center, P.O. Box 898801, Oklahoma City, OK 73189.
• After sentencing, look them up on the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

A federal immigration hold follows a set order:

1. An ICE officer files Form I-247A, the detainer.
2. The jail may keep them up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE officers collect them. The Dallas Field Office of ICE is responsible for Oklahoma: 8101 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200.
4. A common next stop is the Cimarron Correctional Facility, 3200 S. Kings Hwy., Cushing, OK 74023. Its detainee information line, 918-225-3336, answers 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Callers should know the full name, any other names used, the birth date and birth country, and the A-number.
5. Look the person up on the ICE Online Detainee Locator. The A-number gives the surest match.

ICE's Oklahoma City office, 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108, 405-219-3199, is open Tuesday to Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Oklahoma's state immigration crime (21 O.S. § 1795, HB 4156) is on ice for now under a federal court order, and the state's appeal continues.

Use the DOC Offender Lookup, entering either a name or the person's DOC number. Keep in mind that the move from the county jail to prison often takes 6 to 9 months after sentencing. During that wait, the person still shows on the jail list.

• Each prison is profiled on our Oklahoma prison guide.
• The best contact for a prisoner's questions is their case manager. Not sure who that is? Phone the facility and request its records officer.
• DOC's family pages cover money transfers, visiting and digital mail. Every letter needs the prisoner's name plus the ODOC number.
• DOC's main office is at 4345 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-425-2500.

Arrested teens go to juvenile detention instead of the adult jail. Under state jail rules, a youth can spend six hours at most in an adult facility, kept fully apart from adults, while paperwork or a transfer is handled (OAC 310:670-5-5).

The state Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA) oversees youth cases here. Its list of centers includes the county juvenile detention center in Enid. OJA, at 2501 N. Lincoln Blvd., Suite 500, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-530-2800, can say which center has the youth. Youth names don't appear on the adult jail list, and a detention hearing usually follows by the next court day.

Whichever agency made the arrest, adults from all of them are booked into the South 10th Street jail. Census estimates for July 1, 2025 put the county seat near 50,297 residents. Call 911 for emergencies.

• County Sheriff's Office, 216 W. Oxford Ave., Enid, OK 73701, non-emergency 580-237-0244. Deputies cover the countryside outside town limits and help the small towns.
• Enid Police Department, 401 West Owen K. Garriott Road, Enid, OK 73701. Non-emergency dispatch 580-242-7000 (option 1), records 580-616-1820. The same dispatch center takes 911 calls for the county and Major County.
• Covington Police Department, 224 W Main St, Covington, OK 73730, 580-864-7428. Office hours are weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., closed from noon to 1:00 p.m.
• Waukomis Police Department, 580-758-3242.
• Garber, Lahoma and North Enid each have a town police department. For help reaching one, call the Sheriff's Office.
• Drummond relies on the Sheriff's Office as its police, as its town website says.
• Breckenridge, Carrier, Douglas, Fairmont, Hillsdale, Hunter and Kremlin: start with the Sheriff's Office, which serves the county's small communities.
• Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troop J, 580-234-6431, works highway crashes and traffic stops.
• Campus police: the city's public school district has its own campus police department. School arrests go through the same jail.