Oklahoma Inmate Search: The OK Offender Lookup and the Department's Rules

Written by SearchSystems.net from Oklahoma's own systems: the Oklahoma Department of Corrections OK Offender Lookup, the department's Offender Info page, the department's Digital Mail page, the department's Send Money to an Inmate page, the department's Visitation page, the department's Facilities page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.

The facilities

The facilities page lists the state institutions, the contract facilities, a weekly count and the scheduled receptions. New inmates come through the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center at 15151 State Highway 39, Lexington, 405-527-5676, beside the Joseph Harp Correctional Center at 16161 Moffat Road, 405-527-5593. The Allen Gamble Correctional Center at 6888 E 133 Road, Holdenville, 405-698-5900, is a men's medium security facility of 1,723 beds, renamed on October 1, 2023 from the Davis Correctional Facility when the state took over its operation from CoreCivic, for Sergeant Joe Allen Gamble Jr., killed at the Oklahoma State Reformatory on June 5, 2000 answering a fellow officer's distress call.

The Charles E. Bill Johnson Correctional Center at 1856 E. Flynn Street, Alva, 580-327-8000, opened in 1995 as a minimum security substance abuse and mental health treatment facility of 584 beds, most serving drug sentences, with its Regimented Treatment Program of nearly 350 inmates, a Delayed Sentencing Program for about 110 people aged 18 to 22 and an Intermediate Revocation Program for probation violators. The Clara Waters Community Corrections Center at 9901 N.

I-35 Service Road, Oklahoma City, 405-254-3200, opened in March 1978 as a women's facility, went co-ed in 1983 and all male in 1992, and provides work release, public works and substance abuse treatment before release; the Jim E. Hamilton Correctional Center is at 53468 Mineral Springs Road, Hodgen, 918-653-7831, and the Lawton Community Corrections Center at 605 Southwest Coombs Road, Lawton, 580-248-6703.

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Mail: the Securus Digital Mail Center

Digital mail is the sender's original postal mail, scanned and delivered to the inmate's Securus account to read on a tablet or kiosk, with community tablets or free printouts for anyone without one; it covers state run facilities only, not the Red Rock Correctional Center, whose inmates get mail at the facility and messages through ViaPath. General mail arrives at the processing center, is scanned, goes to the agency portal where the facility approves or denies it, and lands in the account at no charge with a notification on the tablet, showing the envelope, pictures and letter.

The envelope reads Inmate's Full Name and ODOC Number, Securus Digital Mail Center, Okla. Dept. of Corrections, PO Box 223566, Dallas, TX 75222-3566, legibly, or it is returned or delayed; letters for different inmates never share an envelope, and all non privileged mail may be inspected and read. Written correspondence, greeting cards, drawings and photos are accepted; legal and privileged mail, newspaper and magazine clippings unless scanned onto 8.5 by 11 paper, Post-it notes, anything taped, glued, stapled or paper clipped, die cut cards, glitter, certified mail, which is returned, and items smaller than 4 by 6 or larger than 8.5 by 11 are not, and felt tip pens, markers and crayons bleed through, so the department asks for one side of the sheet and trimmed spiral notebook edges.

Documents requiring a signature, legal mail and business correspondence go to the facility, as do books, except at the Mack Alford Correctional Center, and approved publications; trust fund monies such as inheritances, royalties and government or tribal payments go to ODOC Offender Banking, PO Box 11400, Oklahoma City, OK 73136-0400, under policy OP-120230.

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Money: JPay and nothing else

Inmate Banking runs restitution accounting, which collects supervision fees and victim restitution, the trust fund with its available balance, mandatory savings and interest bearing savings, and the canteen, where purchases are made within limits when the account can cover them. The department states in capitals that JPay is the only acceptable way to send money and that third party apps such as Cash App and Venmo must not be used.

Deposits go to the trust fund account at JPay.com by credit or debit card, in the free JPay app, by phone with a live agent at 800-574-5729 around the clock, in cash at MoneyGram locations including CVS and Walmart with receive code 6365, or by money order or cashier's check payable to JPay, mailed to P.O. Box 278320, Miramar, FL 33027 with the printable deposit slip attached by paper clip rather than staple, written legibly with the sender's name; a deposit missing any of it is returned.

The inmate's ODOC number is required for JPay and for the Securus phone system, and the department posts JPay's money transfer fees by deposit amount and method. Clothing and property are ordered through oklahomapackages.com.

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Visiting: the application, the 90 days and the Wednesday deadline

Every visitor submits a Visitor Application Form, online or on paper mailed to the Visitation Unit, never to the inmate, at Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Attn: Visitation Unit, P.O. Box 11400, Oklahoma City, OK 73136-0400; a background check is run on everyone 18 and older, approval can take up to 90 days, and the inmate tells the visitor both the outcome and the scheduled date and time. A visitor bringing a minor shows a birth certificate or court or adoption papers to prove guardianship, and a child who turns 18 applies alone.

Every visit is scheduled, through a call or the schedule request form, with no walk ins, and all requests must be in by Wednesday at 1 p.m., after which no changes or additions are made without the facility administration; hours vary by facility and security level, staff pat search every inmate and visitor beforehand, and the Visitation Unit answers at 405-768-3269. Only identification, a car key and coins for the vending machines come in, electronics stay out, and a brief hug and kiss open and close the visit, with excessive contact prohibited under policy OP-030118.

A special visit, anything outside the assigned times, is approved only by the facility head and happens on Mondays and Thursdays with attorney visits: for visitors from far away, approved volunteers and reentry partners, hospitalized inmates, attorney and clergy visits to inmates on disciplinary status, and clergy and social service meetings; ministerial visits under OP-030112 are scheduled ahead, and visits to the terminally ill follow the palliative care policy OP-140146.

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Reading an Oklahoma result

A lookup result is the department's abbreviated record, enough for the ODOC number and the facility and, by the department's own notice, not an explanation of the sentence or the time left. The number carries the letter to Dallas and the JPay deposit, the facility's Securus number carries the calls, and a visit waits on an application, a background check of up to 90 days and a request filed by Wednesday.

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Questions about finding an inmate in Oklahoma

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Related Oklahoma records

The lookup is one of the Oklahoma records this site covers: the Oklahoma arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers OSCN and ODCR, the sex offender registry guide covers the department's registry, and the Oklahoma county pages list each sheriff and jail.