Locate Morrow County Correctional Facility Inmates

Morrow County Correctional Facility Overview

Morrow County Correctional Facility is a full-service county jail operated by the Morrow County Sheriff's Office. Official local sources place the jail and sheriff's office in the same building at 101 Home Road in Mt. Gilead. The sheriff's facility page states that the sheriff and corrections staff manage the jail, maintain security, provide approved living conditions, and ensure fair treatment of prisoners. The facility is not an Ohio state prison, a federal prison, or a separate municipal lockup.

The sheriff describes the jail as a 126-bed facility. It houses felony and misdemeanor male prisoners and misdemeanor female prisoners. That scope covers local pretrial detention, misdemeanor sentences, felony defendants awaiting court action or transfer, probation violations, failures to appear, out-of-county warrants, bond revocations, and similar holds. The public roster itself has male and female sections rather than named pods or housing units, and the research did not locate public housing-unit labels.

The official facility screenshot in the project image inventory matches the sheriff page that links the roster, money, visitation, phone, and package channels. Source: Morrow County Sheriff's Office Correctional Facility page.

The page is the official local starting point because it connects the jail roster with the service vendors used for visits, calls, deposits, and packages.

Morrow County Jail Capacity

Capacity and population figures for Morrow County Correctional Facility should be treated with care. The stable figure in the research is the 126-bed rated capacity from the sheriff's jail page and ODRC inspection references. ODRC inspection snippets found for 2024, 2022, 2021, and 2018 reported different inspection-date populations. Those are point-in-time counts, not annual averages, and they should not be used as a live roster count.

The research file did not locate official annual bookings, average daily population, average length of stay, race or age breakdowns, or a live dashboard. The best current count is the roster at the time it is checked, while inspection reports provide conditions snapshots.

Morrow County Facility Custody

Morrow County Correctional Facility holds people tied to the local criminal process. The public roster examples included sentenced and unsentenced people, Municipal Court and Common Pleas cases, probation violations, failure-to-appear holds, 48-hour holds, domestic violence, burglary, theft, OVI, bond revocations, and out-of-county warrants. Arresting agencies observed on the roster included Morrow County, Probation, Ohio State Patrol, Knox County SO, and Shelby PD.

That mix means the facility is broader than a short-term police cell. At the same time, it is still a county jail. Sentenced felony prisoners who transfer to Ohio prison move to ODRC custody. Sentenced federal prisoners use the Bureau of Prisons locator. Immigration detention uses ICE tools. Official ICE FOIA records show Morrow County Correctional Facility had ICE inspection records in 2019 and 2020, so immigration checks should not rely only on the local roster.

Lookup Morrow County Facility Inmates

The correct roster for Morrow County Correctional Facility is the public Morrow County JDS jail roster, reached from the sheriff's Correctional Facility page. The roster is free and does not require an account. It displays current entries by male and female section with a run date and time. It did not show a public search box during research, so the practical method is to open the list and use browser find for a last name.

1. Open the sheriff's Correctional Facility page and select the roster button.
2. Confirm the JDS roster run date and time before reading a result.
3. Use browser find to search the last name in both roster sections.
4. Read across the row for Jail ID, photo column, charges, court, current disposition, total bail, SID, book date, attorney, next court date, arresting agency, and release date.
5. If the person is not shown, call the jail at 419-947-1151 or records and administration at 419-947-4845.

A county roster result is a booking and custody record, not the final court case record. Charges can later be amended, dismissed, indicted, or replaced by filings in Municipal Court or Common Pleas Court. For a broader explanation of roster fields and fallback searches, use the Morrow County inmate records page.

Morrow County Facility Contact

The jail, records, administration, and dispatch numbers serve different needs. Use the jail line for custody and facility questions. Use records or administration for report requests, public-records questions, and archived material that is not available through the roster. Dispatch is listed by the sheriff for law-enforcement contact, not routine roster research.

Public-records requests can be made through the sheriff's Records page. The policy says public records are available at the sheriff's office from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday, except county holidays. Reports may be withheld when they are incomplete, under investigation, or contain exempt material.

Visit Morrow County Facility

All visitation at Morrow County Correctional Facility is by video visitation. The sheriff's policy says visits must be scheduled at least 12 hours in advance. If a visitor does not log in online, the visit may be terminated 10 minutes after the scheduled time. Non-contact visits can occur in the public lobby visitation area or online via internet. The ICSolutions Morrow County Jail page says visitors must register at no cost for video visitation.

The ICSolutions screenshot in the project image set matches the jail's video-visitation channel. Source: ICSolutions Morrow County Jail visitation.

Registration and scheduling are separate from custody lookup, so confirm the person is still held before setting a video visit.

Morrow County Facility Money

The sheriff's facility page links several service channels. Access Corrections is linked for inmate money deposits. ICSolutions is linked for phone and video services. Ohio Counties Packages is linked for packages. Local fee schedules for vendor payments were not found in the official sheriff content, so vendor fees should be checked before paying.

Effective July 19, 2012, the jail accepts only cash at the jail window for inmate accounts. The sheriff page states that checks and money orders sent through the mail will not be accepted for inmate accounts. Ohio jail mail standards in OAC 5120:1-8-06 allow incoming mail, correspondence, and packages to be opened and inspected for contraband or nonpermitted items. The sheriff page did not publish a detailed local mail-address format, so call the jail before mailing important items.

The Access Corrections screenshot in the manifest is matched to the county jail money-deposit channel. Source: Access Corrections.

Money services should be used only after custody is confirmed because a release or transfer can affect whether funds can be applied.

Morrow County Jail Booking

Booking at Morrow County Correctional Facility produces the public fields seen on the roster. The public record can include Jail ID, photo column, name, charge labels, court, disposition, bail, SID, book date, attorney, next court date, arresting agency, and release date. The public roster did not show date of birth, address, exact housing unit, medical screening, fingerprints, property inventory, race, height, weight, or detailed physical description in the text captured for research.

Ohio full-service jail rules supply the state standards around intake and release. OAC Chapter 5120:1-8 covers full-service jail security, reception and release, mail, visitation, medical and mental-health care, food, discipline, and training. Rule 5120:1-8-09 requires arrangements for health care, mental-health care, and dental care. These rules support the intake framework, but they do not publish a Morrow County booking timeline. If a new arrest is expected but not visible, call the jail.

Morrow County Facility Conditions

The sheriff's facility page reports that Morrow County Correctional Facility has received a 100% passing score on the Bureau of Adult Detention Inspection. ODRC inspection search results also support the 126-bed capacity and provide inspection-date population snapshots. No official recent consent decree, DOJ investigation, new jail construction plan, closure, or county-published overcrowding litigation page was found in the research file.

Local program information was limited. The sheriff page did not publish a full inmate handbook, GED schedule, substance-abuse program list, work-release detail, grievance form, or local reentry calendar. The documented support systems are visitation, phone service, VINE notification, inmate money, packages, public records, and court portals. Conditions claims should therefore stay tied to ODRC standards, inspection references, and the sheriff's own facility page.