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John H. Lilley Prison Overview

John H. Lilley Correctional Center, often shortened to JLCC, is a minimum-security ODOC prison near Boley. ODOC's fact sheet places the facility one mile east of Boley on State Highway 62. It houses sentenced male inmates in state custody, including many elderly and physically challenged inmates. A person held at JLCC has moved into the state-prison system. Family members should not call the Okfuskee County Jail for routine prison visitation, money, mail, or release-date questions after ODOC has custody.

The prison is physically within Okfuskee County, but it is run by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. That distinction controls the inmate search path. Okfuskee County Jail handles local bookings and pretrial custody in Okemah. John H. Lilley Correctional Center holds sentenced state prisoners assigned by ODOC after reception and classification. A person sentenced from Okfuskee County may be sent to JLCC, but may also be placed at another ODOC facility based on custody level, medical needs, programs, and bed space.

The ODOC Offender Lookup is the correct public search tool for John H. Lilley Correctional Center. It is a state locator, not a county roster, and it may show abbreviated offense and sentence details rather than the full court history.

John H. Lilley Inmate Population

ODOC's August 2025 fact sheet describes John H. Lilley Correctional Center as a minimum-security prison housing more than 800 male inmates on 256 acres. A September 20, 2024 ODOC newsroom article about the facility's new barbershop referred to 840 inmates residing at the prison. Use those figures with their dates because prison populations change with transfers, classification decisions, disciplinary moves, program beds, and statewide capacity needs.

JLCC is much larger than the local county jail population in Okfuskee County. That can confuse inmate searches because a person may be "in Okfuskee County" geographically while still being in ODOC custody rather than sheriff custody. The facility field in the ODOC profile is the practical way to tell whether the person is currently assigned to John H. Lilley Correctional Center.

John H. Lilley Inmate Lookup

Search John H. Lilley inmates through ODOC, not through the sheriff's office. The ODOC locator can be searched by name or DOC number, and the result should be checked for the current facility field. ODOC warns that offender data are abbreviated and do not provide an exact explanation of offense, sentence details, or time to be served. For the full criminal case history, use Oklahoma court records in addition to the ODOC profile.

1. Open the ODOC offender lookup and choose the search path.
2. Enter the full legal name, or use the DOC number if known.
3. Open the result and confirm whether the current facility is John H. Lilley Correctional Center.
4. Use ODOC offender information pages for visitation, mail, money, open records, and release questions.

If the person was recently arrested and has not been sentenced to ODOC, the search should start with the Okfuskee County Jail. After conviction and a prison sentence, the county no longer controls prison location, visitation, mail, money, or release information.

John H. Lilley Prison Contact

Use the facility phone for direct prison questions and ODOC central pages for statewide services. The facility address and phone come from ODOC research materials. Mail and money should not be sent until the current ODOC format and provider are confirmed, because state prison mail systems and deposit vendors can change.

ODOC's main agency contact is in Oklahoma City, and ODOC offender information pages link to offender lookup, visitation, money, digital mail, open records, closed records, and Securus outbound phone information. Securus materials listed in the research include a John Lilley outbound number, but the service setup should be verified through ODOC or the current provider page before funds are added.

John H. Lilley Inmate Visits

Statewide ODOC visitation rules apply at John H. Lilley Correctional Center. All visits must be scheduled, and walk-ins are not accepted. ODOC visitation materials state that requests must be received by Wednesday at 1 p.m., with no changes or additions after that deadline unless facility administration authorizes them. Visitors must submit an application, adults undergo background checks, and approval can take up to 90 days.

The ODOC visitation page gives the statewide rule set for prison visits, including scheduling, identification, searches, prohibited items, minor-child documentation, and visit-length rules tied to privilege level.

John H. Lilley Inmate Mail

Mail, money, phone, and digital messaging at John H. Lilley Correctional Center are handled through ODOC statewide processes and approved vendors, not by the county jail. ODOC's offender information page links to send-money information, digital mail, visitation, policies, and records forms. The research also found vendor information for JPay services at John Lilley, including money, email or VideoGrams, and an incarcerated-individual kiosk, but vendor pages should be checked against ODOC's current instructions before use.

Do not send cash, personal checks, or property without written ODOC instructions. Prison mail rules are stricter than ordinary postal mail, and a wrong format can lead to delay, rejection, or return.

John H. Lilley Prison Admission

John H. Lilley Correctional Center does not process street arrests like a county jail. Prison admission follows conviction, sentence, transfer to ODOC, and classification. After the sheriff or county delivers a sentenced person to the state system, ODOC decides placement based on custody level, medical needs, program needs, security factors, and bed availability. That means a person sentenced in Okfuskee County is not automatically sent to JLCC just because the prison is in the same county.

DOC

Oklahoma Department of Corrections, the agency that runs state prisons.

Classification

ODOC review of custody level, needs, risks, and placement factors.

Facility field

The locator detail that shows where an ODOC inmate is currently assigned.

Projected release

A date or status that can change as credits, holds, and sentence calculations change.

John H. Lilley Inmate Programs

JLCC has unusually detailed public program information. ODOC materials list literacy, Pre-HSE and HSE diploma work, college courses for inmates who have funding, licensed trades for ODOC maintenance workers, substance-abuse treatment, criminal-thinking programs, CareerTech, and Oklahoma Correctional Industries. OCI operations listed in the research include a mattress factory, a chemical factory, and a welding factory producing items used across Oklahoma corrections and public services.

The Oklahoma CareerTech Boley Skills Center page documents training provided to inmates at JH Lilley Corrections in Boley.

About John H. Lilley

ODOC says the site began in 1923 as a tuberculosis sanitarium for African-Americans. In 1925 it became the State Training School for Negro Boys, later known as the Boley State School for Boys. The legislature closed the school in 1983, transferred it to ODOC, and ODOC converted it into a prison. The facility is named for John H. Lilley, the school's first superintendent.

Recent ODOC stories add concrete facility detail. In June 2024, ODOC reported that 32 JLCC inmates built a central control building during a three-year project with CareerTech-assisted training. In September 2024, ODOC reported that inmates built a new barbershop because the older 1985 shop could not adequately serve the 840 residents. Those details support JLCC's identity as a minimum-security prison with documented work and training activity.

The ODOC barbershop article is one of the facility-specific sources that gives both population context and program detail.