It's one long web table, readable on any phone. Work through it like this:

1. Open the county's daily inmate list.
2. Glance at the booking dates first. Old dates mean the table is behind, so jump to step 5.
3. On a laptop, Ctrl+F opens a search box. Phones hide the same tool under the browser menu. Type the surname.
4. Compare first and middle names, then copy down the booking time.
5. Phone the 13th Street office at 580-332-4169, or dispatch at 580-332-4466 at night, and have staff confirm your person is at the Broadway jail.

While you have someone on the line, request the booking or inmate number. Deposits, letters and visit sign-ups tend to go faster with it.

Plenty of everyday reasons explain a blank result:

• Booking is still going. Prints, photos and forms can take hours after the cruiser arrives.
• They already left. Someone paid the bond, or the judge granted release.
• The table is behind. Web lists on the county site may not match tonight's head count.
• Spelling. Try a former surname, a nickname such as Bill for William, or just one half of a double last name.
• Another jail. Arrests on Allen's Hughes County side, or a warrant from a neighbor county, can send someone elsewhere.
• A minor. Under-18s go to juvenile detention instead.

A live voice beats any table. Dispatch picks up 580-332-4466 around the clock and can check with the jail.

Ada's Justice Center is home base for every adult arrest here. When the stop happened near a border, or a neighboring county issued the warrant, these are worth a call:

• Coal County Jail, Sheriff's Office at 4 N. Main, Suite 8, Coalgate, OK 74538, 580-258-2734
• Johnston County Jail, 110 N Capital Ave, Tishomingo, OK 73460, 580-371-2691
• Garvin County Detention Center, 201 W Grant, Pauls Valley, OK 73075, 405-238-7591
• McClain County Jail, 121 N. 2nd Ave., Purcell, OK 73080, 405-527-1961
• Murray County Jail; phone the Sulphur sheriff's office, 700 W. 10th St., Sulphur, OK 73086, 580-622-5106
• Pottawatomie County Jail; phone the Shawnee sheriff's office, 14101 Acme Road, Shawnee, OK 74804, 405-275-2526

Part of Allen sits in Hughes County. For an arrest on that side, ask the Hughes County 911 center, 405-379-6627, where the person went. See our Hughes County Jail page too.

No photos appear on the daily list, just names and booking times. In Oklahoma, jail registers and booking details such as name, physical description and cause of arrest are open records (51 O.S. § 24A.8). That statute is silent on mugshots, though.

• To request a booking picture, reporters and the public can call the 13th Street office at 580-332-4169 or write to sheriff@pontotoccountysheriff.com.
• An immigration booking photo means filing an ICE records request.
• Federal booking photos are kept private. Marshals sometimes break that pattern by releasing a wanted person's picture, so the public can phone in tips.

OK VINE can. It's the state's free custody tracker, and the Sheriff's county page links to it. Look the person up on VINELink and choose a phone, text or email alert, or enroll by calling 877-654-8463.

• VINE reports custody changes: release, transfer, escape or death.
• Once DOC takes over from the Broadway jail, the person carries a new ID, and the old VINE alert may stop. Sign up again under the DOC number.
• No VINE record for your person? Ask dispatch at 580-332-4466 to check with the jail.

Under Okla. Const. art. II § 8, most people arrested here can bond out. Only a narrow group of grave charges can be held without bail. Locally it works roughly like this:

• State charges get a bond from a District 22 judge. Ask the Court Clerk at 580-332-5763 for the figure.
• City charges use the municipal court's printed schedule. After business hours, those city bonds are paid on North Broadway by cashier's check or money order.
• A state-licensed bondsman can post it, for a premium that you pay.
• A second or later DUI arrest means waiting for a judge.

Prices, pay windows and bondsman rules are spelled out on our bail page.

Oklahoma treats the cause of arrest as open booking information. When you reach the jail through dispatch at 580-332-4466, ask for the booking charges. Those can still change.

The final charges are up to the District 22 District Attorney, whose local office sits at 105 W. 13th Street, Ada, OK 74820, 580-332-0341. After filing, the counts appear in Oklahoma District Court Records (ODCR), the court record service named on the county website. Prefer a person? The Court Clerk's staff, 580-332-5763, can read them out.

Your relative can request the lawyer form from any detention officer at the Broadway jail. A judge looks it over, usually near the first hearing. When the judge finds the person can't pay, the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System (OIDS) sends a contract lawyer.

• OIDS contract counsel: 215 N. Walnut Street, Pauls Valley, OK 73075, 405-238-4460
• OIDS main office: 111 N. Peters Ave, Suite 500, Norman, OK 73069, 405-801-2601
• A $40 application fee is owed, and the judge can let it ride until the case ends.

Families who would rather pay a private lawyer may do so whenever they like. Lawyers usually call the jail first to book a private talk.

Call before making the trip. The Sheriff's Office at 580-332-4169 can give you this week's visit days, how to get on the list, which ID works, and whether a screen visit from home is possible.

Oklahoma's jail standards set a few ground rules. Head counts and time limits for visitors can be capped only for security reasons. A minor needs a parent or guardian along (OAC 310:670-5-9). Visitors may be searched, and cell phones and purses are best left locked in your vehicle.

Our visiting guide covers dress and what to bring.

Deposits let your person buy snacks, soap and phone minutes. Check with the Sheriff's Office at 580-332-4169 first. Ask which deposit methods run right now, what fees or caps apply, and which number goes with the deposit.

Never tuck cash in an envelope. Read our money guide for the usual deposit routes. What a balance buys is listed in our commissary guide.

Oklahoma's health department, in OAC 310:670-5-1, promises everyone booked on Broadway two or more calls once intake wraps up, either local or collect. Expect a ring within hours, and don't be surprised by a collect charge or a strange number.

Later calls usually run through a prepaid jail phone account. The 13th Street office, 580-332-4169, can explain account setup and whether tablets or messages are available. For general background, read our phone guide and messaging guide.

Mail goes to the jail's street address, 1814 N. Broadway Ave., Ada, OK 74820. Call the Sheriff's Office at 580-332-4169 before sending, and ask how to write the name line, where any booking number goes, and what the mailroom turns away.

• Oklahoma's jail rules don't cap the number of letters, in or out. Staff do check envelopes for contraband.
• Envelopes from a court or defense attorney get unsealed only while the person watches, and outbound legal letters leave sealed (jail rule OAC 310:670-5-9).
• Add your name and address up top on the left of the envelope.

Our mail guide has more pointers.

At booking, staff inventory and bag everything the person had. When the person walks out, staff check each item off that list and get a signature (Oklahoma jail standard OAC 310:670-5-1).

Family can sometimes pick things up during the stay. Ring the 13th Street office at 580-332-4169 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Ask whether your relative must sign first, which belongings may leave, and the best hour. Carry photo ID to the Justice Center, 1814 N. Broadway Ave., Ada, OK 74820.

Under 74 O.S. § 192, an Oklahoma jail owes adequate care for sickness or injuries that happen from arrest on. State health inspectors look at each jail at least yearly. Jail rules spell out three basics:

• A health check the moment someone is booked.
• Posted steps for asking to see a nurse or doctor.
• OAC 310:670-5-8 sets the clock: after your relative hands in a written sick call, licensed staff must see them within 48 hours, or quicker for something urgent.

The county pays a contract clinic for jail health care. Tell the Sheriff's Office, 580-332-4169, about any condition or prescription, give the doctor's name, and ask how medicine can be dropped off. After hours, emergencies go to dispatch at 580-332-4466.

The Sheriff's Office, 117 W. 13th Street, Ada, OK 74820, 580-332-4169, serves warrants for the county. State fugitives: the Oklahoma Attorney General's 10 Most Wanted. For federal ones, use the U.S. Marshals' 15 Most Wanted page. A state court warrant also shows up in the case file on ODCR. City warrants belong to the municipal court on Townsend, 580-436-8024.

Clearing one usually means a defense lawyer setting up a surrender to the issuing court. The Court Clerk can also talk about a bond or a reset: 100 W. 13th Street, Ada, OK 74820, 580-332-5763.

State court settings post to ODCR after filing. Choose Pontotoc, search the last name, then open the case for the next hearing. OSCN, the state courts network, is a second public site.

• District Court: the Court Clerk, 580-332-5763, weekdays 8 to 4.
• City ticket or charge: municipal court, 580-436-8024.
• Drug court and other programs: specialty courts office, 580-332-9587.

Every courthouse and each stage of a case are laid out in our court guide.

Federal charges filed in this part of the state are Eastern District of Oklahoma cases, and that court's clerk is at 101 North 5th Street, Room 208, Muskogee, OK 74401, 918-684-7920. Whether the accused waits at home is a call made at a federal detention hearing (18 U.S.C. 3142).

• Pretrial prisoners answer to the U.S. Marshals. Their Muskogee office, 101 North 5th Street, Suite 136, Muskogee, OK 74401, 539-239-5500, can say where someone is held.
• Moves often route through the Federal Transfer Center, 7410 S. MacArthur Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73169, 405-682-4075.
• Once sentenced, the person appears in the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can ask the Broadway jail to hang on to a noncitizen past the point the state case would free them. The usual order of events:

1. ICE files Form I-247A, its detainer, with the Broadway jail.
2. The hold can run up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE comes for them. Oklahoma is handled by the Dallas Field Office, 8101 N. Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, TX 75247, 972-367-2200, and its Oklahoma City office, 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108, 405-219-3199.
4. ICE holds many Oklahoma detainees in Cushing, 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. Callers should know the full name, other names used, the birthday, the birth country, and the alien registration (A) number.
5. Online, the ICE Online Detainee Locator searches by A-number. It also works with the name and the birth country together.

A 2024 Oklahoma law that made unlawful presence a state crime (HB 4156) can't be enforced right now. A federal judge's injunction stopped it, and the appeal remains undecided.

A prison sentence usually means more weeks at the Justice Center until the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) sends transport. DOC calls 6 to 9 months the norm. Reception and assessment come before the prison assignment.

• Once the transfer from Ada happens, the DOC Offender Lookup should list them.
• Prison letters need the person's name plus their ODOC number.
• Each prisoner has a case manager for family questions. No name for that person? The records office at the prison can point you to them.
• DOC main line: 4345 N. Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-425-2500.
• Our Oklahoma state prisons page gives addresses and visit rules prison by prison.

Kids under 18 are kept out of the adult cellblocks. Police or deputies may keep a youth roughly six hours for processing, fully separated from grown inmates (jail rule OAC 310:670-5-5). Then the teen is released to family or placed in a youth detention center overseen by the Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA).

• Parents can learn the youth's location from OJA's local office, 1628 E. Beverly, Suite 113, Ada, OK 74820, 580-436-4102.
• OJA headquarters: 2501 N. Lincoln Blvd, Suite 500, Oklahoma City, OK 73105, 405-530-2800.
• Youth cases are filed in District Court. Hearing dates come from the Court Clerk, 580-332-5763.

Several agencies patrol here, and most bring adults to the Justice Center. Not sure who arrested your person? County dispatch at 580-332-4466 answers for most of them.

• Sheriff's Office (rural roads and towns with no police force): 117 W. 13th Street, Ada, OK 74820, 580-332-4169.
• Ada Police Department: 301 S. Townsend Road, Ada, OK 74820, 580-436-6300. County dispatch doubles as its 24-hour non-emergency line.
• Stonewall Police Department: 201 West Main Street, Stonewall, OK 74871. Reach an officer through county dispatch.
• Allen, Byng, Fitzhugh, Francis and Roff: the Sheriff's Office covers calls, through county dispatch.
• Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police, Ada precinct: 1130 W. Main Street, Ada, OK 74820, 580-436-1166.
• East Central University Police: 830 East Main Street, Ada, OK 74820, 580-559-5555, staffed 24 hours.
• Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers cover the highways. Dispatch can tell you whether a trooper made the stop.