Alfalfa County Jail Roster Status
The central fact for Alfalfa County inmate records is that no official online Alfalfa County Jail roster was found on the county or sheriff website. No daily booking report, recent release list, mugshot gallery, searchable jail register, or confirmed sheriff app roster was located either. That does not mean no record exists. It means the public access path is not a web form. The Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office is the local office tied to current county jail custody, booking questions, bond checks, warrant service, and jail-register requests.
The sheriff's office lists Sheriff Gary Mast and states that the office operates the county jail, preserves the peace, secures people charged with felonies or breaches of peace, serves warrants, and handles District Court process. The local jail path covers people arrested in Cherokee, Helena, Carmen, Burlington, Amorita, or elsewhere in Alfalfa County before release, transfer, bond, court disposition, or sentence placement. Sentenced state prisoners are a different group. They are searched through the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, including people housed at James Crabtree Correctional Center in Helena.
The official sheriff page is the best matching source for jail-record work in Alfalfa County. Its page is shown below so the office name, public contact block, and jail authority statement stay tied to a county source. The official Alfalfa County Sheriff page is the source for the contact chain used throughout this record page.
Because the county does not publish a live jail list, the image confirms the office to contact rather than proving an online roster exists.
Find Alfalfa County Jail Inmates
A current Alfalfa County inmate record search starts with the sheriff rather than an online database. Call 580-596-3269 during the posted 9:30 - 4:30 office hours when possible, or go to the sheriff's public counter at 300 S. Grand Ave, Suite 1, Cherokee, OK 73728. If the need is not urgent, email sheriff@alfalfa.okcounties.org or fax 580-596-2244 and ask what wording the office prefers for a records request. Use the person's full legal name, date of birth or age if known, date of arrest, town or arresting agency, and any court case number already found.
- Call the Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office and ask whether the person is currently booked in the Alfalfa County Jail.
- Give the full name, date of birth or approximate age, arrest date, arresting agency, and town if known.
- Ask whether the person is still in local custody, released, transferred, held for another agency, or moved to ODOC after sentencing.
- If bond is the issue, ask whether bond has been set and whether another hold, warrant, detainer, or court order blocks release.
- If a record copy is needed, ask for the jail register entry, booking information, or arrest report under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
- Search ODCR or OSCN after a case is filed because booking charges can differ from the prosecutor's filed court charges.
Do not treat commercial jail-directory pages as official Alfalfa County inmate records. The county source set did not confirm those listings, and the research found no county-published roster for them to mirror. A person who was arrested near James Crabtree Correctional Center may still be booked locally first, but a sentenced prisoner at that state facility should be searched through ODOC, not through the county jail office.
Alfalfa County Roster Fields
The Alfalfa County jail roster search-field table is short because there is no official roster form to inspect. That absence is useful to know. It prevents wasted time looking for a county search box that the official sheriff materials do not publish. For local custody, replace roster fields with a focused phone or written request that gives the sheriff enough identifying detail to check the jail register or booking record if public release is allowed.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not available | Not available | Not available | No official Alfalfa County jail roster form was found. |
When a state-prison record is the right path, the ODOC locator is more structured. It supports name-based searches, DOC number searches, and facility filters when available. Those records are for sentenced Oklahoma prisoners, fugitives, and state custody. They are not a substitute for Alfalfa County Jail booking records for a new arrest.
| ODOC Field | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | Text | Unspecified | Use for a state prisoner name search. |
| First Name | Text | Unspecified | Helpful when a last name is common. |
| DOC Number | Text | Unspecified | Best exact-match field when known. |
| Facility | Filter | Optional | Use James Crabtree Correctional Center when the person is in ODOC custody there. |
Alfalfa County Inmate Record Fields
Oklahoma law matters because the county does not publish a jail profile page. Under 51 O.S. section 24A.8, law-enforcement agencies must make certain arrest, incident, and jail-register or jail-booking information available if kept, subject to exemptions. Public access is not the same as automatic online publication. The sheriff may withhold or redact juvenile material, protected identifiers, medical or mental-health data, victim information, active investigative detail, and records made confidential by state or federal law.
| Field | What It Shows / Alfalfa County Notes |
|---|---|
| Name | Booked person's legal name if the jail register or booking record is available. |
| Booking number | Not published online by the county; request from the sheriff if needed. |
| Booking date and time | May be part of a booking record or jail register if kept. |
| Mugshot | No official county mugshot gallery was found; ask whether a booking photo exists and is releasable. |
| Demographics | Oklahoma law references arrestee description fields such as date of birth, race, sex, physical description, address, and occupation if kept. |
| Charges | Booking charges are arrest or holding allegations and may differ from District Attorney filings. |
| Bond | May be confirmed through sheriff or court records after a judge or magistrate sets release conditions. |
| Release status | Use sheriff, VINE when available, and court records because no current or released county tab is online. |
For a filed criminal case, ODCR and OSCN carry court records rather than jail records. A docket may show the case number, filed charge, court date, warrant entry, bond order, plea, dismissal, sentencing, or disposition. For the arrest-to-case path, see the page on court records after a jail arrest.
Alfalfa County Custody Lookup Paths
Alfalfa County has a small local jail path and a large state-prison presence. The Alfalfa County Jail is the county facility for local arrestees, warrant arrests, pretrial detainees, and short local custody. James Crabtree Correctional Center is an ODOC state prison in Helena for sentenced male state prisoners. The two should not be mixed. Federal and immigration systems are separate as well. No BOP or ICE detention facility was identified inside Alfalfa County, but people arrested locally can still be moved into those systems if federal or immigration authority takes custody.
| Custody Type | Where to Look | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| County jail | Alfalfa County Sheriff's Office, 580-596-3269 | Recent local arrests, booking status, bond questions, warrant holds, local release status. |
| State prison | ODOC offender lookup | Sentenced Oklahoma prisoners, including JCCC when assigned there. |
| Custody alerts | Oklahoma VINE | Notifications and custody-status alerts where a participating record is available. |
| Federal prison | BOP inmate locator | Sentenced federal prisoners and some former federal inmates since 1982. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | ICE detainee searches by A-number/country of birth or biographical details. |
Important: A county jail booking, an ODOC inmate profile, and a federal custody record are separate records. Use the agency that holds the person now.
Alfalfa County Jail Facilities
The county facility list has two different roles. The primary local jail is Alfalfa County Jail, operated by the sheriff from the courthouse complex in Cherokee. The other major detention facility physically in the county is James Crabtree Correctional Center, operated by ODOC in Helena. JCCC dominates the count of incarcerated people located in Alfalfa County, but it does not act as the county jail roster for new local arrests.
Alfalfa County Jail
300 S. Grand Ave, Suite 1
Cherokee, OK 73728
580-596-3269
Published sheriff office hours: 9:30 - 4:30
James Crabtree Correctional Center
216 N. Murray Street
Helena, OK 73741
572-568-6000
State prison. Use ODOC visitation and offender lookup rules.
The Alfalfa County Jail capacity is not published on the county site. Prison Policy Initiative's 2022 phone-rate appendix lists the jail at 15 beds with Prodigy phone service and $0.21 phone rates. Treat that as a dated secondary statistic, not as a current county-posted capacity statement.
Alfalfa County Booking Process
No local booking-process page was found for Alfalfa County, so the safest way to describe intake is to stay with normal county custody steps and the sheriff's published role. An arrest may be made by a sheriff's deputy, city officer, state trooper, ODOC investigator, OSBI agent, or another officer serving a warrant or court process. Booking can include identity checks, property inventory, a search, medical and safety screening, fingerprints, a booking photo, review of charges and warrants, and a decision on release, hold, transfer, or first appearance.
- Booking
- Administrative intake after arrest, often including identity, photo, fingerprints, property, and charge information.
- Jail register
- A jail or blotter record of people incarcerated, public if kept unless an exemption applies.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency that may block release even after bond is set.
- Personal recognizance
- Release based on a promise to appear and follow court conditions, without paying the full cash bond.
Booking charges are not the final word on a criminal case. The District Attorney reviews reports and decides what charges, if any, to file. The Alfalfa County Court Clerk then maintains the District Court record. That is why a person can appear in jail custody before a court case appears online, or a jail booking allegation can differ from the complaint or information filed later.
Alfalfa County Jail Visitation
The county website does not publish local jail visitation days, ID rules, dress code, video visitation policy, attorney-visit procedure, mail format, commissary vendor, or money-deposit rules. Call the sheriff before going to the courthouse complex, mailing anything, or sending funds. For JCCC, use ODOC rules instead. ODOC visitation requires scheduling, visitor applications, adult background checks, and approval that can take up to 90 days.
| Item | Published Alfalfa County Jail Information |
|---|---|
| Schedule | Not published on official county pages. |
| Visitor ID | Not published; call the sheriff before arrival. |
| Video visitation | Not published by the county source set. |
| Mail format | Not published; confirm current rules before mailing. |
| Money deposits | Not published by county pages. |
| Phone provider | PPI 2022 lists Prodigy, but the county site does not confirm a current provider. |
Note: Bring only what the sheriff says is allowed because the county website does not publish a jail visitor-entry policy.
Alfalfa County Records Requests
A written request should identify the record with care. Ask for a jail register entry, booking information, arrest report, warrant service record, incident report, bond status, or booking photo if kept. Include the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, arresting agency, and case number if one exists. Ask for the fee estimate, redaction policy, and whether inspection is available before copies are prepared.
Use the Oklahoma Open Records Act wording when the request is about a public law-enforcement record. The sheriff's published contact channels are phone 580-596-3269, email sheriff@alfalfa.okcounties.org, fax 580-596-2244, and in person at Suite 1. The Court Clerk, Tammi Miller, can help with filed District Court records at 580-596-3523 or tammi.miller@oscn.net, but that office is not the jail custodian. For booking photos specifically, the Alfalfa County jail mugshots page separates county photos from ODOC and federal images.