A phone or a laptop works fine. These steps help:

1. Pull up the active inmate roster run for the Sheriff's Office.
2. Wait a few seconds. The names fill in after the page itself loads.
3. Switch to a bigger page size, up to 1,000 rows, or use your browser's find tool on the surname.
4. Compare the first and middle names and the booking date so you know it's the right person.
5. Note the exact spelling and booking date before you call. Staff locate people quicker with both.

Still no luck? Phone the jail at 580-371-2691.

When a name is not there, one of these is usually why:

• Booking isn't done. Fingerprints and intake forms take time before a name is added.
• Released. Someone may have bonded them out, or the court freed them.
• Transferred. Another county's jail, a DOC prison or the Marshals may now have them.
• Spelled another way. Try the legal first name, a second last name, or the name before a marriage.
• A minor. Teens and children go to juvenile detention.

The jail at 580-371-2691 gives the fastest answer. When that line is busy, the Sheriff's Office takes calls day and night at 580-371-2646.

Adults arrested in the county are normally kept in the Tishomingo jail. When deputies from a neighboring sheriff make the stop, the person may be in that sheriff's lockup instead:

• Atoka County Jail, 201 East Court Street, Atoka, OK 74525, 580-889-2221
• Bryan County Jail, 402 Evergreen Street, Durant, OK 74701, 580-931-0673
• Carter County Jail, 100 South Washington, Ardmore, OK 73401, 580-223-6014
• Coal County Jail, reached through the Sheriff's Office, 4 N. Main, Suite 8, Coalgate, OK 74538, 580-258-2734
• Marshall County Jail, Sheriff's Office at 207 N. 4th Street, Madill, OK 73446, 580-795-2221 (pick the jail option)
• Murray County Jail, 700 West 10th Street, Sulphur, OK 73086, 580-622-5106
• Pontotoc County Jail, Sheriff's Office at 117 West 13th St., Ada, OK 74820, 580-332-4169

The roster is a simple list of names and booking dates. To request a booking photo or a printed booking record, contact the Sheriff's Office records desk at 580-371-2646. It takes records requests Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at $0.25 a page, and its website has an open records form.

• Under state open records law, the jail log, the name and description of the person, and why they were arrested are public (51 O.S. § 24A.8).
• An ICE photo can be sought through the agency's records request page.
• Federal booking photos are rarely shared. An exception: the Marshals may publish a fugitive's photo to help find them.

Yes. The Sheriff's site points to VINE, Oklahoma's custody tracking service. It shows the facility holding a person and sends word when they are transferred, freed, escape or are recaptured.

1. Open VINELink for Oklahoma.
2. Type the name and choose the matching person.
3. Choose how VINE should reach you: phone, text or email.

Phone sign-up runs at 877-654-8463. Prisoners moved to DOC get a fresh ID number, so re-register after a transfer to state prison.

Under Oklahoma's Constitution, nearly everyone can get bail. Denial is allowed only for listed serious charges, like violent crimes, and only after a judge sees strong proof and no safe release plan (Okla. Const. art. II § 8). Bond can be cash, a licensed bondsman's surety, or property, and some people go home on a signed promise alone.

Repeat DUI arrests wait for a judge before bond (HB 1222). Call the jail at 580-371-2691 for the amount and any holds. Our bail guide covers each way to pay.

Start with the jail at 580-371-2691. Oklahoma counts the reason for an arrest and jail booking entries as open records (51 O.S. § 24A.8), so staff can usually share the charge.

When the DA files the case, the formal counts appear on Oklahoma District Court Records, where this county posts its case files. The Court Clerk at 580-371-3281 can read the charge and case number too. The filed charge can differ from the arrest charge, so compare them before the first hearing.

If your person can't pay for a lawyer, they should request the court-appointed counsel application from jail staff. The District Court judge rules on who qualifies. The judge may let them pay the $40 fee at the end.

Here, the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System sends contract counsel: 333 W Main St, Suite 475, Ardmore, OK 73401, 580-223-2599. Completed forms go to the Court Clerk, 403 W. Main, Suite 201, Tishomingo, OK 73460, 580-371-3281. Talks with a lawyer are confidential, so save questions about the case for those talks.

For visit days, hours and sign-up, phone the jail at 580-371-2691. Ask whether visits are face to face or on a screen. Video calls are booked through the account service linked on the Sheriff's website.

Oklahoma jail standards allow limits on how many visitors come and how long visits last when security calls for it, per OAC 310:670-5-9. Visiting children stay with their parent or legal guardian throughout. Carry a photo ID, wear plain clothes, and expect to lock your phone in the car. Our visiting guide lists common rules.

For commissary money and care packages, the Sheriff's website links an online deposit service. The balance pays for snacks, soap, paper and other store items. Keep the full name and booking date close when you send funds.

A second account service, also linked there, covers phone calls, video calls, texts and photo sharing. For deposit limits, fees or a way to pay in person, call the jail at 580-371-2691. Read our money guide and commissary guide to learn more. Keep cash out of the mail.

Under Oklahoma jail rules, every new arrival is allowed a pair of calls, local or collect, after intake (OAC 310:670-5-1). Watch your phone, since that first call could be collect and may come within hours.

Later calls, video chats, texts and shared photos are paid from a prepaid account. You open it through the service the Sheriff's site links. Assume someone may listen, and save talk about the charges for the lawyer. Our jail phone guide covers call accounts, and our inmate messaging page covers texts. For anything else, the jail line is 580-371-2691.

Phone the jail at 580-371-2691 before you send a letter. Ask how to write the address, and if they want a booking number added. The street address is 110 N. Capital Ave, Tishomingo, OK 73460.

• Under OAC 310:670-5-9, nobody may cap how many letters an inmate sends or gets.
• Staff can open everyday letters to look for anything banned.
• Court and attorney envelopes are unsealed only in front of the inmate, and outgoing legal mail leaves sealed.
• Address it to their legal name, and add a return address.

See our mail guide for items jails often turn away. Never tuck cash inside.

Belongings fall under OAC 310:670-5-1. Anything on the person at booking gets listed and stored. At release, items are handed over by that list, and your loved one initials the sheet. Tell them to look over each item first.

Need to collect property while they are still inside? Call 580-371-2691 and ask whether your person must sign a release form first, and what time works. Bring photo ID to 110 N. Capital Ave, Tishomingo, OK 73460.

By state law, every Oklahoma jail owes its inmates adequate medical care (74 O.S. § 192). State jail rules spell out a few steps (OAC 310:670-5-8):

• A health screening happens the moment someone is booked in.
• Each person learns how to ask for treatment.
• Once they ask in writing, an appointment with licensed medical staff follows within 48 hours, or sooner if urgent.

Worried about a medicine or a health problem? Call the jail at 580-371-2691 now. Give staff the drug, its dose and the prescriber's phone. In an emergency, dial 911, and speak up clearly about any fear of a mental health crisis.

In this county, the Sheriff's deputies handle warrant arrests. To ask about one, dial 580-371-2646, request Records/warrants, and give the name and birth date. Wanted lists: Oklahoma 10 Most Wanted, run by the Attorney General; the Corrections Orange Alert list of escaped prisoners; plus the U.S. Marshals' top 15. ODCR shows filed cases. With a lawyer's help, the person can turn in to the issuing court, or the lawyer can request a bond or later date there. Locally, the District Court Clerk is at 403 W. Main, Suite 201, Tishomingo, OK 73460, 580-371-3281.

State hearings are set by the District Court. Two ways to get the date:

• Phone the Court Clerk, 403 W. Main, Suite 201, Tishomingo, OK 73460, 580-371-3281, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
• Type the name or case number into ODCR, the statewide docket site.

Tribal cases are scheduled at the Chickasaw Nation District Court, Judicial Building, 821 N. Mississippi, Ada, OK 74820, 580-235-0281. Since McGirt v. Oklahoma, that is often where a tribal citizen's case goes when the crime was on reservation land. For how a state case unfolds, see our court guide.

A U.S. charge out of this county belongs to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, 101 North 5th Street, Room 208, Muskogee, OK 74401, 918-684-7920.

1. A federal judge decides at an early hearing whether they wait for trial in custody (18 U.S.C. 3142).
2. The U.S. Marshals Service keeps them until trial. To learn the jail, phone its Muskogee office at 539-239-5500.
3. Some are housed for a time at the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73169, 405-682-4075.
4. Once sentenced, they appear on the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, by name or register number.

If ICE puts a hold on someone in the Tishomingo jail, events usually run like this:

1. ICE files a detainer at the jail, on the form called I-247A.
2. Staff may keep them up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE officers collect them. ICE's Oklahoma City office is at 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108, 405-219-3199.
4. They could end up at the Cimarron Correctional Facility, 3200 S. Kings Hwy., Cushing, OK 74023. Its information line, 918-225-3336, runs 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
5. Search the A-number, or else name plus native country, in the ICE Online Detainee Locator.

HB 4156, the 2024 statute aimed at undocumented residents, sits under a federal court block while the state's appeal plays out.

Once a prison sentence is handed down, the wait in the Tishomingo jail lasts until the Department of Corrections moves them, which DOC says normally takes 6 to 9 months. At a DOC reception center they are tested and given a custody level, then sent on to a prison.

• The DOC Offender Lookup shows their location.
• Visiting and mail rules for every prison sit in our Oklahoma prisons directory.
• Call DOC at 405-425-2500. Every letter to a state prisoner must carry their name and DOC number.

A teen won't show up on the adult roster. A jail may hold a juvenile for six hours at most, for processing, kept separate from adults, until a juvenile center takes them (OAC 310:670-5-5). To find out where a youth is and when the hearing will be, call the local Office of Juvenile Affairs, 305 West Main Street, Tishomingo, OK 73460, 580-371-3586.

Ask the jailer who arrested your person; the booking record names the agency. Agencies working in the county include:

• Johnston County Sheriff's Office, 110 N. Capital Ave, Tishomingo, OK 73460, 580-371-2646. This same number is the county's 24-hour 911 line for every town.
• Tishomingo Police Department (city of 3,123 in 2025): ring the Sheriff's line at the top of this list and ask to be connected.
• Mannsville, Ravia, Wapanucka, Mill Creek, Milburn and the county's part of Bromide: police calls from these towns route through the county 911 center on the Sheriff's line. Ask there which agency answered.
• Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police, Ada precinct, 1130 W. Main, Ada, OK 74820, 580-436-1166
• Murray State College Police Department, first floor of Patton Hall on the main campus, 580-387-7311, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Oklahoma Highway Patrol, closest troop offices: Troop F in Ardmore, 580-223-8800, and Troop E in Durant, 580-916-4810