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Le Flore County Inmate Population Overview

The adult local jail population in Le Flore County centers on the Le Flore County Detention Center in Poteau. The sheriff's official contact page places the sheriff's office and detention access point behind the county courthouse, and the research found the detention center direct phone line as the county's clearest current-custody channel. That local jail population is different from the sentenced state-prison population at Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center in Hodgen. It is also different from juveniles held through the LeFlore County juvenile detention context, and from any federal or immigration detainee searched through national systems.

The Vera Institute county file gives the strongest sourced population series for the Le Flore County inmate population. Its 2023 county row reports 162 people in the jail population and a rated jail capacity of 186. The same row reports 146 in pretrial custody and 16 in sentenced custody. Those figures show why local custody searches should begin with the county detention center for recent arrests, bond questions, and booking records, while sentenced prison searches should move to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections offender lookup.

Le Flore County Inmate Population Statistics

Population numbers for Le Flore County are best read as sourced snapshots. The Vera county file reports jail population, rated capacity, admissions, and custody categories for county jail data. The Prison Policy Initiative Oklahoma profile supplies statewide context, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics gives national jail population context. The local sheriff pages reviewed did not publish a current daily jail dashboard, so the table below avoids presenting any number as today's live count.

The Vera Incarceration Trends repository is the source used here for Le Flore County jail capacity, population, admissions, and custody-category figures.

The screenshot is included because the home page's main task is to separate sourced county jail population figures from live custody lookup steps.

Le Flore County Inmate Population Trends

The Vera trend line shows a sharp rise from 2020 through 2022, then a drop in 2023 and 2024. The 2022 figure is notable because it exceeded the rated capacity listed in the same dataset. The research file does not identify one local policy change that explains the movement, so the safer reading is practical: arrests, bond decisions, court timing, transfers, holds, and jail bed use can move the Le Flore County inmate population year to year.

The county also sits in a broad southeastern Oklahoma geography. Census Reporter lists Le Flore County at about 49,053 residents across 1,589.4 square miles in the 2024 ACS profile. A jail population between 128 and 210 is a significant local custody load in that setting, especially when most of the recorded 2023 jail population was tied to pretrial custody rather than long-term sentence service.

Le Flore County Jail Population Makeup

The 2023 Vera row helps explain who is counted in the Le Flore County jail population. It reports 128 male inmates and 36 female inmates, along with racial and ethnic fields that include 5 Black, 14 Latinx, 127 White, and 18 Native people. Vera also reports custody-source fields for people held from federal, state-prison, other-jail, ICE, marshals, and other federal categories. These are annual data fields from the county file, not a substitute for current custody confirmation.

• Pretrial custody: Vera reports 146 of 162 people in the 2023 jail population as pretrial custody.
• Sentenced custody: Vera reports 16 people in sentenced custody in the 2023 county jail row.
• Other agency holds: Vera lists federal, state-prison, other-jail, ICE, marshal, and other federal custody categories in the 2023 data.
• State prison inmates: JEHCC holds more than 700 sentenced male Oklahoma prisoners, separate from the county jail count.

Le Flore County Jail Capacity Rules

Oklahoma law and state rules shape how jail data is made public and how detention facilities are inspected. The Oklahoma Open Records Act makes government records open unless a statute allows or requires withholding. Section 24A.8 of Title 51 covers law-enforcement records that must be available if kept, including arrestee descriptions, facts about arrests, jail registers, and jail booking information.

Jail operation is also tied to Oklahoma detention standards. The Oklahoma Jail Standards Act requires detention facilities to comply with jail standards and be inspected by the State Department of Health. The OAC 310:670 detention facility standards provide the inspection and standards framework. Title 57 also includes county-jail capacity notification language and establishes Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center at Hodgen.

Search Le Flore County Current Custody

No official Le Flore County online current-inmate roster, booking report, or jail search portal was located on the sheriff's official site, the legacy sheriff site, the contact page, the divisions page, the open-record page, the links page, the most-wanted page, or the news page. That finding controls the search process. A current Le Flore County inmate search should begin with custody confirmation through the detention center, then move to written records requests and court records as needed.

1. Confirm the arresting agency and custody stage, especially for arrests from Poteau, Heavener, Spiro, Pocola, Talihina, Arkoma, Wister, or other local towns.
2. Call the Le Flore County Detention Center at 918-647-5013 for current custody, bond, charge, hold, and release questions.
3. If full details are not released by phone, submit a written request through the sheriff's open-record process.
4. Search OSCN Docket Search and ODCR for formal charges after the arrest.
5. Use ODOC, VINE, BOP, or ICE locators when the person has moved beyond county jail custody.

The sheriff's communications division is also relevant because the divisions page says communications conducts warrant checks and criminal-record checks. For a warrant-related booking, the jail, dispatch, and court clerk may each answer a different part of the question.

Le Flore County Search Channels

Because the county did not publish a searchable roster in the reviewed sources, the search-field table for Le Flore County is really an access-channel table. It shows the practical path for current jail information, older booking records, court charges, state prisoners, and federal or immigration custody.

What Le Flore County Inmate Records Show

An official online Le Flore County jail profile was not found, so a web-roster sample cannot be described as if it exists. Oklahoma's law-enforcement records statute is the better source for the categories that may be available when kept. Under 51 O.S. 24A.8, public law-enforcement records can include arrestee descriptions, facts about an arrest, incident lists, radio logs, conviction information, and jail register or booking information.

County Jail vs State Prison

Le Flore County has both a local adult detention center and a state prison. This is where many searches go wrong. The Le Flore County Detention Center is the local path for adult arrests, pretrial custody, short local sentences, and some agency holds. Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center is an ODOC state prison for sentenced adult male inmates from across Oklahoma. It is not searched through a county jail roster.

ODOC also notes that transfer from county jail to state custody after sentencing normally takes six to nine months. That means a sentenced person may still be physically in a county jail while waiting for ODOC reception or classification.

Le Flore County Detention Facilities

The facility map for the Le Flore County inmate population includes one primary adult county jail, one state prison, and one juvenile detention entry. These should not be merged into a single roster. Each has a different operator, custody population, and lookup route.

• Le Flore County Detention Center - the adult local jail in Poteau for pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, court holds, and other agency holds.
• Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center - an ODOC minimum-custody state prison in Hodgen for sentenced adult male prisoners.
• LeFlore County Juvenile Detention Center - a juvenile detention operation noted in OJA materials, not an adult jail roster source.

Le Flore County Jail Records Requests

The sheriff's open-record request page is the best documented path for older, released, or non-online booking information. The page says requests must be made in writing at the sheriff's office or through the web form. It asks the requester to identify records as specifically as possible. For jail records, that means names, dates, arresting agencies, requested booking sheets, jail register entries, mugshots, bond information, discharge dates, and arrest reports when those records are held by the sheriff.

The page also says outside devices are not accepted for security. That is useful for anyone requesting video or audio, but it should not be stretched into a still-photo fee rule because the research did not find a separate fee for a booking photograph.

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