The Detention Center
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- Operated byOhio County Sheriff's Office
- Jail detailsCounty Sheriff's Office page lists a matron as a contact but gives no jail name, capacity or housing arrangement
Source: Ohio County — Sheriff's Office page · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
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The Sheriff
Sheriff Tom Baxter
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff keeps the county jail (IC 36-2-13-5)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address123 S. Mulberry Street (county Sheriff's Office page)
- Phone(812) 438-3636
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Ohio County — Sheriff's Office page · checked 2026-09-20
The Judges
Indiana circuit and superior court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. In most counties they are elected to six-year terms; a few counties choose some judges through a nominating commission followed by retention votes.
Ohio County Circuit Court
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- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-20
The Commissioners and County Council
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe three county commissioners own and maintain the jail building and sign its contracts; the seven-member county council adopts the budget and appropriates the jail's money.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and keeps the jail by state law (IC 36-2-13-5).
- NoteCommissioners meet 1st Monday 9:00 AM and 3rd Tuesday 6:00 PM; agendas/minutes posted by year. Seven-member County Council (fiscal body): Charles R. Cleary Jr, Myron Dennis, Chris Flood, Stephen Foote, Don Grace, Deborah Thomason, Yvonne Walton; 2025 budget hearing/adoption PDFs posted but are scanned images that could not be read.
- The boardOhio County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- County site ohiocountyin.gov confirmed Indiana; its Sheriff's Office page names Sheriff Tom Baxter and lists a matron contact, address 123 S. Mulberry Street.
- No jail name, capacity, roster, bond, fee, PREA, inspection or contract information on the county pages opened; sheriff routes other services to Facebook.
- Council page links 2025 budget hearing/adoption PDFs; the two opened were scanned images with no readable text, so the budget check is no.
- No separate sheriff website found; search results otherwise were Facebook and aggregator sites, not used.
- State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail Services inspects annually (IC 11-12-4); reports are public record on request but not posted by the state. None found on the county's own site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ohio County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners and council members who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-20 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered