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Osage County Jail Roster Overview

The Osage County Sheriff's Office books and holds people at the county jail at 900 Saint Paul Ave in Pawhuska. Sheriff Bart Perrier leads the agency, and Captain Matt Clark runs the jail. The current inmate roster is published on the Sheriff's website and updates throughout the day as people are booked in and released. It is a current-custody list, so a name drops off once that person leaves the jail.

The roster reflects who is in the building right now, not a person's full history. It can include holds for other counties or states, fugitive-from-justice charges, and weekend sentence entries. On Sunday, June 14, 2026, the page showed 129 people in custody, which gives a sense of the jail's daily size. That count is a snapshot and shifts hour to hour.

The county is large, so the trip to Pawhuska can be long. Osage County is the biggest county in Oklahoma by area, covering 2,304 square miles, and residents may be driving in from Skiatook, Hominy, Fairfax, Barnsdall, or Shidler. Checking the roster online first spares a wasted drive.

The Sheriff's homepage is the front door to all of these tools. You can reach the roster and the inmate services links from the Osage County Sheriff's Office website.

From that homepage the current inmate list, warrant search, and inmate services pages are all one click away.

How to Use the Osage County Inmate Roster

The roster uses one simple search box, so looking someone up takes only a moment. There is no login and no fee. The steps below walk through a typical lookup from start to finish.

1. Open the Sheriff's current inmates page in any web browser.
2. Type a name, a booking date, a charge, or a city into the single search field.
3. Read the matching entries that the list filters down to.
4. Check the photo, the booked date and time, and the listed charges to confirm the right person.
5. Use the VINELink link under that person to set up custody alerts if you want them.

The live tool sits on the Osage County Jail current inmates page, which shows the running custody count at the top.

Each result on that page pairs a booking photo with the basic details a search would match against.

Osage County Roster Search Fields

Unlike many jail systems that ask for a last name in one box and a first name in another, the Osage County roster uses a single free-text field. The prompt invites you to type anything, and the list narrows as it matches your text against the visible entries. That means a charge, a city, or a date works just as well as a name.

Because everything runs through one field, a broad search returns more results and a longer, more exact entry narrows the list. Start broad if you are not sure of the spelling.

What an Osage County Inmate Entry Shows

Each public roster entry carries a set of plain details meant to identify the person and explain the hold. The fields below come from the live Osage County roster, where a typical line reads as a name in capitals, a mugshot, a booked time, and a list of charges.

The charges line can mix local offenses with holds from elsewhere. Real entries have shown domestic assault and battery, resisting an officer, DUI, no valid driver's license, failure to maintain security, fugitive from justice, and a Rogers County hold tied to case number CF-23-77.

Note: the public list does not show a booking number, date of birth, height, weight, race, sex, bond amount, pod or tank, court date, or release date, so do not assume those details are public.

VINELink Custody Alerts

VINELink is a free national service that sends an alert when a person's custody status changes. The Sheriff links it under every roster entry and in the site's quick links, so a victim, witness, or family member does not have to keep refreshing the page. After you register, the system can notify you by phone, text, or email if the person is released or transferred.

This matters most for safety planning. Someone who needs to know the moment a person leaves the Osage County jail can let VINELink watch the record instead of checking it by hand. The alert is only as current as the data the jail feeds it, so it is wise to confirm anything urgent by calling the Sheriff's Office directly.

Osage County Sheriff's Office and Jail

The Sheriff's Office and the county jail share an address in Pawhuska, the county seat. Both the main line and a second posted number reach staff who can answer custody questions when the website is not enough. The contact card below gathers the details for a call or a visit.

Calling ahead is smart before any trip, since the jail grants visits based on time, space, and availability. A short call also confirms that the person is still in county custody and not already moved to another agency.

Booking and Charges Versus the Court Case

Booking is the intake step that follows an arrest. Staff record the person's information, take a photo, and list the charges that brought them in. Once that is done, the person appears on the current inmate roster. The jail also holds people for other agencies, so a booking can reflect a warrant, a fugitive hold, or a short weekend sentence rather than a fresh local arrest.

The charges shown on the roster are not the same as a court conviction. They reflect what the arrest or hold is based on at intake. The District Attorney, Mike Fisher, decides which formal charges to file in District Court, and a judge sets bond and hears the case from there. A charge can be amended, reduced, or dropped after the booking, and the roster will not track that court history.

To follow the case itself, the court file is the right source. The charges a prosecutor actually files show up in the Osage County court charge records, while the full case with pleas and sentencing lives in the Osage County criminal court records. The roster answers where a person is; the court file answers what is happening with the case.

Osage County Jail Visitation Schedule

The jail allows in-person visits on weekdays during set hours, and it limits how often each inmate can be seen. Weekends and holidays are not visiting days. The schedule below lays out the basic window.

Each inmate may have one facility visit every seven days, and visits are granted as time and space allow. The rules also set clear standards for who may come and how to dress.

• Adult visitors must be at least 18 and carry a state-issued photo ID.
• Visitors 17 and under must come with an adult 18 or older who has a state photo ID.
• Dress fully in conventional clothing; nothing revealing, provocative, or suggestive.
• No gang, obscene, or distracting messages or designs on clothing.
• No camouflage or clothing that resembles a security uniform.
• Contraband can lead to arrest; profanity, threats, or disruptive conduct can end the visit.

Note: bring a valid state photo ID every time, since a visitor without proper identification can be turned away at the door.

Commissary and Inmate Money

Family and friends can put money on an inmate's account and order commissary items through JailATM. After creating an account, the "Add Money" option lets a person deposit funds, which become available right after the payment clears. The "Place Web Order" option lets someone order commissary goods that ship on the next scheduled delivery date once payment is finalized.

The inmate services page collects these money and ordering tools in one place. JailATM's help link points to Benchmark Government Solutions for account questions. You can review the deposit and ordering steps on the Sheriff's inmate services page.

That same page links the phone, video, and email services described next, so one stop covers most ways to support someone in custody.

Phone, Video, and Email Through City Tele Coin

The jail uses City Tele Coin, also called CTC, for inmate phone service and for video calls, messages, and pictures. To set up a direct-pay account, call 318-746-1114 or visit the City Tele Coin website. Once the account exists, users can download the City Tele Coin app from the Apple or Google store, pick the facility, and set up a remote account to video chat and send email.

The app is a communications tool, not a lookup tool. It does not search the roster, list warrants, or handle records requests, so the Sheriff's current inmates page is still the place to confirm custody. The app page is on the City Tele Coin listing in the App Store.

Registering before the first call usually goes faster than trying to set everything up during a rushed first contact.

Inmate Mail Rules and NCIC Messaging

The jail changed how it handles mail to keep contraband out. Messages, documents, and photos can be sent electronically through NCIC.com after an account is set up, with a posted price of $0.25 per message and $0.35 per picture or document. Inmates then read the scanned mail on kiosks inside the facility.

The processing rules are strict, and mail sent to the Longview address will not be returned or released. Once it is scanned and received electronically, the physical item is destroyed, including pictures. Mail must fit within 8.5 inches wide by 11 inches tall, run no more than 5 pages, and include the inmate name, booking or identifying number, and a return address. Only the front side is scanned, so writing on the back causes a return to sender, and only one photo per mailing is allowed.

The full policy, the address, and the size limits are spelled out on the Sheriff's inmate mail update page.

Reading the update before sending anything avoids mail that gets returned or destroyed instead of reaching the inmate.

Records Requests for Booking Information

When the roster does not answer a question, the Sheriff's Records Division handles open-record requests for Sheriff's Office records. A staff associate processes each request, and posted fees cover report copies, certified pages, and email or scan charges. This is the official path for a booking record or an incident report, not the court case file.

The Records Division covers Sheriff's Office records only. Court case files, dockets, and sentencing belong to the Osage County Court Clerk and the state court systems, while county land and recording records sit with the County Clerk. The request form and the fee list are on the Sheriff's Records Division page.

For a formal copy of a booking record, that page is the right starting point rather than a phone call alone.

Finding Someone Not in the County Jail

The county roster only covers people held in the Osage County jail. Once a person is sentenced to state prison or moved into federal custody, they leave the county list and appear in a different system. Two state and federal locators pick up where the roster stops.

• For someone sentenced to state prison, use the Oklahoma Department of Corrections inmate system, not the county roster.
• For a sentenced federal prisoner, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator at bop.gov/inmateloc.
• For a custody-status alert across systems, VINELink can track a person even after a transfer.

Osage County also sits in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, based in Tulsa, so anyone facing federal charges is handled through that court and federal law enforcement rather than the county jail. Checking the right system the first time avoids a dead-end search on a list that no longer holds the person.