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The Osage County Jail is the local jail facility for Osage County, Oklahoma. The Osage County Jail is located in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, near the County Fairgrounds. The Osage County Jail replaced the old jail building, which was located next to the County Courthouse.
The Osage County Jail was built to hold up to 140 inmates, but its daily inmate population has been near 100 inmates since it was opened in 1997. The Osage County Jail holds inmates that have been detained by the Osage County Sheriff’s Office as well as by other local law enforcement agencies, who use the facility to hold and transport prisoners.
Osage County is Oklahoma’s largest county, by area. It is home to the Osage Nation and is coextensive with the Osage Nation Reservation. The county seat is Pawhuska, Oklahoma. While physically large, the county has a small population of less than 50,000 people.
The Osage County Jail uses the Offender Data Information System (ODIS). This system is handled by the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Resource Center, and allows the Osage County Jail to easily share warrants and inmate information with other agencies in Oklahoma. The booking reports used by the Osage County Jail are generated by the ODIS system.
The Osage County Jail uses Tiger Correctional Services for its jail services, including commissary and inmate trust accounts. Tiger Correctional Services provides commissary services to almost 200 jails in the United States, and prides itself on providing exceptional services and responsiveness. The inmates at Osage County Jail may not have access to the same services as inmates at other facilities serviced by Tiger Correctional Services, so click on an inmate’s name to find out what services are available for that inmate.
The Osage County Jail is under the auspices of the Osage County Sheriff’s Office. The Osage County Sheriff is Eddie Virden. Sheriff Virden appointed a long-time Osage County Sheriff’s Office veteran, Captain Charlie Cartwright, as jail administrator.
Osage County Jail
900 S St. Paul Ave
Pawhuska, OK 74056
Attn: Jail
Osage County Sheriff’s Office
900 S St. Paul Ave
Pawhuska, OK 74056
Inmate Name
Osage County Jail
900 S St. Paul Ave
Pawhuska, OK 74056
The Osage County Jail does not provide additional instructions for inmate mail on its website. Therefore, before sending inmate mail to the facility, you may want to contact the jail to ensure that the inmate can receive the mail that you want to send. The phone number for the jail is 918-287-4395.
We are providing a list of general rules for inmate mail. These rules may or may not apply to inmates at the Osage County Jail; some jails are more lenient, while others have stricter mail rules. However, following these guidelines would put you in compliance with most jail mail rules.
While you cannot send envelopes, stamps, writing utensils, or writing materials directly to inmates through the mail services, you can use Tiger Correctional Services’ website to purchase these items for inmates on the commissary list. Through commissary you can purchase writing pads, pens, stamps, envelopes, and even some seasonal greeting cards for inmates to use in their correspondence.
In addition, while inmates cannot receive packages in the mail, you can send a number of items to them through commissary services. These items include clothing, hygiene items, sodas, medical items, and some recreational items.
The Osage County Jail’s Phone Number is: 918-287-4395. The Osage County Jail’s fax number is 918-287-4068. The phone number for jail billing is 918-287-9528.
Osage County Jail has a daily booking list that gives the names of all inmates in the jail on the current date. The list is an alphabetized list of all inmates in custody. When you click on the list, you pull up the entire roster of all inmates in jail on that date. Although there is no search function for the list, using the CNTL + F “find” feature on your computer, you could search for an inmate by name, sex, date of birth, booking date, or booking number. In addition to seeing the inmate name on the list, you also see the inmate’s sex, date of birth, booking date, and booking number. For additional information on an inmate, you can click on the inmate’s name. This takes you to the VINE information for the inmate. That information includes custody status, age, and race in addition to the other information. It does not include a booking photo for recently booked inmates, but may include a booking photo if the inmate has been booked for a substantial period of time. The Oklahoma VINE system is a statewide system that allows victims of crime to use the phone or internet to search for information on the custody status of an offender. Victims can register at VINE to receive both telephone and e-mail notifications of any custody status changes for an offender. To contact the Oklahoma VINE system, you may call 877-654-8463.
The Osage County Jail does not provide a list of recent arrests, but its daily booking list provides information on all inmates booked in the jail on a certain dates. By searching that list by booking date, you can compile a list of inmates booked on dates. In addition, Osage County Jail provides historical booking reports, which allow you to find historical inmate booking information, even for inmates that may not be currently incarcerated in the Osage County Jail. These booking reports provide additional inmate information that may not be available in the daily population report, including mugshots of the offenders, where an offender resides, and the charges against the offender.
The Osage County Jail does not maintain a mugshot database. You cannot find booking photos/mugshots of inmates on its daily population list, but they are available in the historical inmate booking reports.
The Osage County Jail does not provide any specific visitation information online, nor is specific visitation information, such as housing pod or other inmate location identifier, available on its booking rosters or daily population lists. Therefore, you need to contact the jail directly to ask about specific visiting information for each inmate. The jail phone number is 918-287-4395.
If you are able to secure visitation with an inmate, it is important to follow rules for jail visitation. Visitors must be able to provide government-issued photo ID with a current address in order to visit. Codefendants, felons, or people who were recently incarcerated in the Osage County Jail will be unable to visit. The number of visitors is limited. Children who are visiting must be accompanied by an adult, and the adult may need to be a parent or legal guardian. No unattended children can be left in the lobby or the visitation room, so only bring the number of children that can be permitted to visit. Do not bring contraband into the jail; doing so not only means that you will not be permitted to visit, but could also subject you to prosecution. Contraband includes: drugs, alcohol, and weapons, but may also include other lists. Check with the jail to find out what items are prohibited. Generally, visitors will not be permitted to bring electronics, including cell phones, into visitation. Visitors must comply with all rules and directions issued by jail staff, or the visit will be terminated and the right to future visits may be removed. Finally, visitors must dress modestly to visit the jail. Generally, clothing must not reveal cleavage, should not bare midriffs, must include all gender-appropriate undergarments, should not be too short, cannot show bare upper arms, cannot be see-through, cannot be too tight, and cannot be otherwise sexually suggestive.
The Osage County Jail does not allow inmates to accept incoming calls. Instead, inmates can place outgoing phone calls. These phone calls are collect calls, though you may be able to set up a billing service that provides a small break on collect call prices. To ensure that you can get a phone call from an inmate, make sure your phone is set up to accept collect phone calls.
In rare cases of emergency, such as a death or serious illness in the family, the jail will relay a message to an inmate to call home. To contact the Osage County Jail in an emergency scenario, you can call the jail at 918-287-4395. Be prepared to provide proof of the emergency.
The Osage County Jail uses Tiger Services to provide commissary services to the inmates at the jail. You can handle deposits online at: Tiger Commissary. Once you arrive at the website, you click on the first letter of the inmate’s last name in order to locate the inmate. Once you have selected an inmate, you are given options. You may purchase items for that inmate from the commissary list. Inmate commissary lists may vary, based on an inmate’s security level and whether the inmate is facing any type of disciplinary action. Some products that are available include: shampoo, soap, deodorant, feminine hygiene products, lip balm, cola soft drinks, crew socks, stamped envelopes, writing pads, t-shirts, boxers, conditioner, lotion, bras, panties, batteries, chess sets, checkers sets, pillows, ear plugs, cards, playing cards, reading glasses, crossword puzzle books, and word find books. The Osage County Jail does not make candy and snack products available through commissary. You can order commissary items directly for an inmate at the website.
At the website, you can also choose to make a web deposit into an inmate’s commissary account. By depositing into the commissary account, you give the inmate the ability to use the money to pick what he or she wants to order from the commissary. To make a deposit, you need the inmate’s name, and your credit card information. All deposits are subject to a 12% processing fee.
It can be difficult to find bail/bond information on inmates in the Osage County Jail. The limited information in the daily population report does not list the charges against the inmates or the bail/bond that may have been ordered. However, you can find that information in some of the historical reports. Unfortunately, that may not be helpful if you wish to bail or bond out an inmate shortly after his or her arrest. The best way to find out information about an inmate’s bail or bond situation is to contact the jail at 918-287-4395.
Like most states, Oklahoma uses a cash bail system. The judge orders an amount of bail that must be paid in order to secure a defendant’s release from jail. If you can pay the full amount in cash, then the full amount is refundable to you as long as the defendant appears at any scheduled court dates, regardless of the outcome of the criminal case against the defendant. However, many bail amounts are high enough that friends and family cannot pay the full amount of the bail. In those circumstances, you can use the services of a bail bondsman. A bail bondsman charges a fee, usually ten percent of the total bail, and, in return, guarantees the court that the defendant will appear. The fee is non-refundable. In addition, you may need to secure the promise by pledging something to the bail bondsman in the event that the defendant does not appear at court.
The Osage County Jail will not recommend any specific bondsmen, but you can find them by looking online or in the Yellow Pages. A criminal defense attorney may also be able to help you find a reputable bondsman.
The local jail facility for Osage County, Oklahoma is the Osage County Jail, which is located in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, near the County Fairgrounds. Although it was built to hold 140 inmates, it is one of the rare county jails that is not experiencing overcrowding and has a daily inmate population that is consistently near 100 inmates. The jail holds people detained by local law enforcement agencies throughout Osage County, including the Osage County Sheriff’s Office.
The Osage County Jail uses both the Oklahoma VINE and the Oklahoma statewide Offender Data Information System (ODIS). Both of these systems are handled by the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Resource Center, so that Osage County can quickly and effectively communicate with other agencies and get offender status information to victims.
The Osage County Jail uses Tiger Services to provide both commissary and inmate trust account services. To utilize those services, you visit Tiger Services’ website, select the Osage County Jail, and then select the inmate by last name.
The jail administrator is Captain Charlie Cartwright and the Osage County Sheriff is Eddie Virden. The Osage County Jail is located at 900 S St. Paul Ave, Pawhuska, OK 74056. The Osage County Jail’s Phone Number is 918-287-4395.
Year Built or Opened: 1997 Warden or Supervisor: Jail Administrator Charlie Cartwright Daily Inmate Count: 121 Total Capacity: 140 Security Level(s): medium
900 South Saint Paul Avenue
Pawhuska, OK 74056-5860
Phone Number(s):
918-287-4295
Fax Number:
918-287-6012
Email Address:
[email protected]
900 South Saint Paul Avenue
Pawhuska, OK 74056-5860
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