Search Kay County Detention Center Inmates

Kay County Detention Center Overview

Kay County Detention Center is located in Newkirk and is operated through the Kay County Sheriff's Office and the Kay County Justice Facilities Authority. County officials identify Steve Kelley as Kay County Sheriff and Don Jones as the Kay County Detention Center Director. ICE records refer to the same location as Kay County Justice Facility, so the facility has two overlapping roles: it is the local jail for Kay County custody and an immigration detention site used under federal contract. That dual role matters when looking up someone held there. A person arrested by a city police department, the sheriff, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, or another local agency may be in the county jail side, while an immigration detainee may need the ICE locator and ICE help line.

The local jail population includes pretrial detainees waiting for court, county-sentenced inmates serving short jail terms, municipal arrestees transferred from Kay County cities, contract detainees, and possible holds from other agencies. Pretrial means the case has not been resolved by conviction or sentencing. A detainer is a hold or request from another agency, such as ICE, another county, parole, or a federal authority. Those labels affect which office can confirm custody, who controls release, and which search tool is most useful.

The Kay County Sheriff's Office contact page is the local source that lists the detention facility phone number for custody questions.

Use the sheriff page to separate the sheriff's main administrative phone from the direct detention line, since the detention line is the better starting point for a live custody check.

Kay County Detention Capacity

Kay County's modern jail project changed the size of local detention. The Vera jail construction dataset records a Kay County new-jail project in 2008 that increased bed capacity from 108 to 322. The sheriff staff page says the Kay County Sheriff's Department and Kay County Detention facility opened for service in December 2010. Those two records fit together as a project year followed by a later service opening. For current custody work, the key point is that Kay County Detention Center is the single full detention facility documented in the county's facility map, not one of several county jail buildings.

Population figures must be date-labeled. The October 8, 2021 Justice Facilities Authority minutes reported an average daily count of 234 and a high count of 275. Vera's county trend data reported a Kay County total jail population of 254 in 2019, plus 185 in pretrial custody and 69 in sentenced custody. Later Vera rows show sparse total figures, including 310 in 2021 and 313 in 2023, but many breakdown fields are blank. Those numbers are useful for trend context. They are not a current roster.

The Kay County Justice Facilities Authority page is important because its agendas and minutes track jail operations, reports, and authority business.

Justice Facilities Authority records are not a live inmate list, but they can identify dated jail reports, housing statistics, contract-bed issues, and public-record paths for deeper operations data.

Lookup Kay County Detention Inmates

No official public Kay County jail roster, recent-booking report, or sheriff-hosted mugshot gallery was located on the county website in the research file. Do not rely on private websites that look like jail roster pages unless the originating agency confirms the information. For Kay County Detention Center, the local search starts with the detention phone line. The wider lookup chain depends on custody type: VINE can help with notification, ODCR and OSCN show court cases after charges are filed, ODOC covers state prisoners after transfer, BOP covers federal sentenced custody, and ICE tools cover immigration detention.

1. Call Kay County Detention Center at 580-362-3393 with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest date.
2. Ask whether the person is held as a local county inmate, a municipal transfer, an ICE detainee, or under another agency hold.
3. Search Oklahoma VINE for custody and release notifications if the person is in a participating jail or case system.
4. Check ODCR and OSCN docket search for Kay County court records after a jail arrest.
5. If the person has been sentenced to state prison, use the Oklahoma Department of Corrections offender lookup instead of the county jail phone path.
6. For federal sentenced custody, search the BOP inmate locator. For ICE custody, search the ICE Online Detainee Locator System and use ICE DRIL if needed.

Kay County Detention Contact

The detention facility and sheriff's office share the official W Dry Road address in Newkirk. The sheriff's main office number is useful for records, administration, and general routing, but the direct detention number is the practical first call for custody confirmation. The county did not publish detention lobby hours in the source material. Call before travel, especially for visits, property issues, bond questions, attorney access, mail rules, or in-person records requests.

Kay County ICE Detention

Kay County Detention Center must be treated as both a county jail and an ICE contract detention facility. ICE's Kay County listing identifies the facility and states that detainee information may be requested by calling the facility phone number. ICE's Online Detainee Locator can search for a person currently in ICE custody or in CBP custody for more than 48 hours. ICE DRIL, the Detention Reporting and Information Line, is another route for detainee-location questions and detention concerns.

ICE custody is not the same as a Kay County criminal case. A person may have local charges, immigration detention, both, or a transfer from one system to the other. If the person is not found by phone through the jail, search the ICE locator by A-Number and country of birth if available, or by biographical information. If the person has only a Kay County criminal case, ODCR and OSCN may show court filings, but those court portals do not prove current immigration custody.

The ICE Kay County Detention Center listing is the facility-specific federal source for immigration detention contact and visitation details.

The ICE listing is especially useful when a search involves an immigration detainee rather than a local Kay County jail inmate.

Kay County Detention Visits

Kay County-specific county-jail visiting days and hours were not published on the sheriff page in the research file. For local jail inmates, call 580-362-3393 before traveling and ask about approval, ID, dress rules, minors, property limits, attorney visits, and whether visits are in person or video. ICE does publish a facility rule for ICE detainees: one hour of visitation per week, which may be split into two 30-minute visits. Adult visitors should be prepared to show government-issued photo identification.

Note: Confirm visit status by phone on the same day because custody, lockdowns, staffing, court transport, and ICE rules can change access.

Kay County Commissary Money

Kay County local mail format, phone vendor, and video-visit vendor were not located in official county sources. The safest route is to call the detention center before sending mail, money, books, publications, or photos. ICE detainee mail and legal mail should follow the ICE facility instructions and the current rules confirmed by the facility. For sentenced state prisoners who have left Kay County, ODOC uses separate digital mail, money, phone, visitation, and facility rules. Do not send ODOC money to the county jail unless the facility confirms the person is still there.

The Tiger Commissary Kay OK page is the documented vendor page for web deposits and commissary ordering tied to Kay County.

The vendor page supports the money and commissary workflow, but it does not replace a custody check with the detention center.

Kay County Booking Intake

Kay County does not publish a detailed local booking workflow, so the intake process should be described in general county-jail terms. A person may arrive after arrest by the Kay County Sheriff's Office, Ponca City Police, Blackwell, Newkirk, Tonkawa, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, tribal officers, federal officers, or another agency. Booking normally includes identity checks, warrant checks, property inventory, search under jail policy, photo and fingerprints, medical screening, classification, and housing assignment. Classification means the jail sorts a person by safety, health, security, and custody needs.

Booking information and court information are different records. Jail intake may begin before the prosecutor files formal charges. The Kay County Court Clerk says felony and misdemeanor case progress can be tracked at ODCR, and court records may later show charges that differ from the arrest allegation. For custody status, use the detention phone line and VINE. For court filings, use ODCR, OSCN, or the Court Clerk. For a broad jail record explanation, the local Kay County jail inmate records page covers the full fallback chain.

Kay County Facility Records

The facility has a local operations trail because the Kay County Justice Facilities Authority reviews detention reports. February 2025 minutes list operational materials such as the Jail/Inmate Daily Report, KCDC Housing Stats, Vehicle Roster Mileage, Monthly Food Service Report, Loss of Revenue Report, Sales Tax Disbursement, and Monthly Health Services Report. The same minutes discuss contract-bed revenue issues and pending federal litigation involving the authority, a health provider, several named defendants, and Director Don Jones. Those records show that jail operations extend beyond a simple booking list.

ICE inspection documents add another layer. A 2020 ICE Office of Detention Oversight inspection reviewed detention standards affecting life, health, safety, and well-being, and it identified dated deficiencies involving topics such as special management, staff-detainee communication, force/restraints training, food service, medical care, suicide prevention, disability accommodation, recreation, phone logs, visitation logs, and grievance logs. A 2025 ICE ODO inspection and a 2022 PREA audit also exist for the Kay County facility. Treat inspection findings by date. They are oversight records, not a current daily roster.