Absentee Shawnee Tribal Police Jail

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The Absentee Shawnee Tribal Police Jail is a low-security police department jail in the city of Shawnee, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. It houses adult detainees (over the age of 18) who have been apprehended as tribal law offenders and are awaiting trial, a pending plea, or sentencing. The majority of these prisoners are spending time at the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Police Jail for less serious offences for less than a year. Some tribal inmates may be transferred to the Pottawatomie County Jail.
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Tribe: Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma

Phone: 405-275-3200

Physical Address:
 Absentee Shawnee Tribal Police Jail
2025 Gordon Cooper Drive
Shawnee, OK 74801

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Absentee Shawnee Tribal Police Jail
2025 Gordon Cooper Drive
Shawnee, OK 74801

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Understanding US Bureau of Indian Affairs

Because the legal system in ‘Indian Country’ operates outside of the legal jurisdiction of the cities, counties and states where the individual Indian Reservations are located, and the land is wholly owned and governed by the Tribes, the jails and detention centers on those lands are maintained and run by the individual Tribes. The police that provide the security and enforce the laws and the courts that mete out justice are also controlled by the individual Tribes.

There are over 90 jails and detention centers throughout Indian Country, of which, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Office of Justice Services (OJS) staffs and operates a quarter of these facilities. The remainder are operated by Tribes through the PL 93-638, Self-Governance Compacts and a few are fully funded and operated by a tribe. Each jail is unique in operation and location.

Indian Reservation and Tribal laws also fall under the legal jurisdiction of the federal government. If a federal law has been broken, the Department of Justice may get involved. In that case, a convicted person from a crime committed on Indian Lands may be required to serve their time within the BOP (Federal Bureau of Prisons).

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