Find Blaine County Inmates

Blaine County Jail Roster Overview

The Blaine County Sheriff's Office runs the county jail and publishes its inmate roster online. The agency sits at 220 N. Burford in Watonga, the county seat. Its roster lists people booked into the Blaine County Jail and still in custody. Each entry carries a name, a booking date, and a booking time. A View Details link opens a fuller profile. Deputies patrol 928 square miles, so arrests can come from across the county. The roster reflects current bookings and refreshes as people are booked in and let out.

The official starting point is the Blaine County Sheriff's Office homepage.

From that homepage, the inmate search link leads straight to the live Blaine County jail roster.

One roster cannot cover every form of custody. The county list shows people held in the Blaine County Jail, not those moved to state prison. Inmates sentenced to long terms transfer to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Federal detainees and immigration holds appear in separate federal systems. For sentenced state inmates, the state offender lookup is the right tool. The county roster is best for fresh, local bookings.

How to Use the Blaine County Roster

Using the roster takes only a minute. The search runs against people currently held in the Blaine County Jail. A name is the only thing needed to start. Booking numbers and other details show up once a profile opens.

The live booking list appears on the sheriff's inmate search page.

That page shows each current inmate with a booking date and a link into the full record.

1. Open the Blaine County Sheriff's inmate search page in any web browser.
2. Type the inmate's name into the Search by Name box to filter the roster.
3. Scan the booking list, which shows each name with a booking date and time.
4. Use the pagination controls to move through long result sets, such as Results 1 to 12 of 36.
5. Click View Details next to the right person to open the full booking profile.

Note: The online roster covers people in custody now, so a released inmate may drop off the list within hours of leaving the Blaine County Jail.

Roster Search Fields

The roster keeps its search simple. One field does the filtering, and the result cards carry the rest. The table below maps what the Blaine County jail portal accepts and returns. Nothing here asks for a login or a fee.

What a Blaine County Inmate Profile Shows

Each View Details link opens one inmate's booking page. The Blaine County profile leads with a header that reads the person's name and "Booking Information." A booking photo sits near the top. Basic descriptors and the charges that drove the arrest follow.

A sample profile, such as the booking record for inmate 13603, shows the standard layout.

That Blaine County inmate page lists the name, sex, race, residing city, an inmate ID, and the booking charges.

Some fields stay private. The public Blaine County profile does not post a bond amount, a court date, a warrant number, a housing pod, or a release date. Those details, when releasable, come from the sheriff by request.

Blaine County Jail Address and Phone

The county runs one jail, attached to the sheriff's office in Watonga. It is a medium-to-maximum-security facility. The jail holds men and women awaiting trial. It also holds people sentenced in the Blaine County court system to one year or less, plus inmates arrested by the county's municipal police departments. Jail Administrator Stacey Walters oversees daily operations.

Facility details appear on the sheriff's jail information page.

That page sets out the Blaine County Jail address, phone numbers, and the rules for visits and mail.

Capacity figures for the Blaine County Jail are not published in official sources. Because the county's municipal police departments book arrests here, the population mixes pretrial detainees, short-sentence inmates, and people held for nearby towns. A single booking desk serves the whole county, from Okeene and Canton to Geary and Watonga.

Note: The jail shares its building with the Blaine County Sheriff's Office, so booking and records questions reach the same Watonga address.

Who Runs the Blaine County Jail

Sheriff Travis Daugherty leads the agency that operates the jail. He was raised in Blaine County and graduated from Watonga High School in 1996. He started as a jailer and dispatcher, then served as a reserve deputy, a city police officer, a federal tribal police officer, a deputy, and undersheriff. He took office with more than 1,200 hours of law-enforcement training. His office handles bookings, warrant service, and work with local police.

His full background sits on the sheriff's biography page.

Knowing who runs the Blaine County jail helps when a records request or a custody question needs a name to reach.

The sheriff's office traces its history to 1901, six years before statehood. Deputies cover communities from Canton and Geary to Okeene and Watonga. That reach explains why a city police arrest can still land in the county jail.

Blaine County Jail Versus State Custody

Custody can shift from the county to the state. People held before trial usually stay in the Blaine County Jail. Once a court sends someone to prison for a longer term, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections takes over. At that point the county roster no longer tracks them. A different lookup carries sentenced state offenders.

Sentenced inmates appear in the state's Oklahoma DOC offender lookup.

That state tool fills the gap when a person leaves the Blaine County Jail for prison.

More than one channel can answer a custody question. Each one covers a different stage:

• The county roster for people currently in the Blaine County Jail.
• The Oklahoma DOC offender lookup for sentenced state inmates.
• Oklahoma VINE, online or by phone, for custody-status alerts.
• A call to the sheriff's office or the jail for live status.
• An in-person visit to the office at 220 N. Burford in Watonga.
• An open-records request for booking details the website does not post.

Oklahoma VINE Custody Notifications

Custody status can change without warning. VINE lets people track it without calling the jail all day. The sheriff's roster page explains the service and posts its toll-free line. Registration is free and works around the clock.

VINE stands for Victim Information and Notification Everyday. A registered user gets an automated alert when an inmate's status changes. Sign up at the Oklahoma VINE site or call 877-654-8463. The same number appears on the Blaine County roster page. Alerts can reach a phone, an email, or both.

Note: VINE alerts depend on accurate jail data, so victims should still confirm a release through the Blaine County Sheriff's Office when safety is at stake.

Booking Charges Versus Court Charges

A booking charge is not a conviction. The charges on a jail profile reflect what an officer listed at arrest. Prosecutors review those charges and decide what to file. A district attorney can add, reduce, drop, or replace them. The final picture lives in the court file, not the jail roster.

Blaine County is served by Oklahoma District Attorney District 4, led by District Attorney Tommy Humphries. That office files the formal charges that move a case forward. To follow the charges a prosecutor actually files, see the county's arrest and court charge records. For pleas, hearings, and the final outcome, the full criminal court records hold the complete case file.

Note: A booking charge can change or vanish before a Blaine County case is ever filed, so it should never be read as a finding of guilt.

Visiting Blaine County Inmates by Video

All personal visits run through video. Blaine County uses NCIC Inmate Communication Systems for inmate phone and video visitation. There is no in-person visiting room for family and friends. Attorneys and counsel arrange their visits with the jail administrator instead. Visitors must be at least 18 or bring a parent or legal guardian.

Setting up a video visit follows a short path. Every visit is monitored and recorded, and the jail can end any session at once.

A few rules keep visits running. Visitation is a privilege, and it can be revoked for rule violations or improper behavior. No nudity and no illegal activity are allowed on camera.

Blaine County Jail Mail Rules

Mail is the simplest way to reach an inmate. Inmates may write to family and friends. Staff open and check every letter for contraband before delivery. A letter needs the sender's first and last name and a return address, or it goes back. Inmates may not write to other inmates in any facility.

Letters should be addressed to the inmate in care of the jail. Use this format:

Inmate Name
c/o Blaine County Jail
220 N. Burford
Watonga, OK 73772

Some items never make it past intake. The Blaine County Jail returns or rejects anything on this list:

• Newspapers and magazines.
• Polaroid pictures.
• More than three to five photos per letter.
• Pens, pencils, stamps, envelopes, or blank paper.
• Cards with musical devices.
• Anything that cannot be scanned.

Commissary and Inmate Funds

Inmates buy snacks and basics through a commissary account. Blaine County uses Tiger Commissary for those accounts. Family members can add money online. They can also place an inmate's weekly order from the same system. The setup keeps cash out of the jail.

Orders follow a weekly clock. Money posts to the inmate's account for use on approved items.

1. Set up or add money to the inmate's Tiger Commissary account online.
2. Place the weekly order through the same online system.
3. Call in any order no later than 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, the weekly order day.

Tiger Commissary handles both deposits and orders through one online account. The official jail information does not publish transaction fees, kiosk options, or tablet programs. A quick call to the jail confirms current costs and limits. Money sent this way lands in the inmate's account, not in the inmate's hands.