The Detention Center
Auglaize County Correctional Center
- Operated byAuglaize County Sheriff
- Jail address1051 Dearbaugh Avenue, Wapakoneta, Ohio 45895
- Rated capacity101
- Beds by categoryMale maximum 6, medium 23, minimum 12; work release 16; administrative segregation 2; medical 8 male / 5 female; female 11 violent, 20 non-violent
- VisitsOff-site video daily 8am-10pm; on-site kiosk visits Saturday and Sunday 6-9pm
- Communication rates$0.21 a minute for US calls, $0.30 a minute for remote video, $0.25 a message
Source: Auglaize County Sheriff — Correctional Center · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds101
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Michael L. Vorhees
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff operates the Auglaize County Correctional Center
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Ohio Rev. Code 311.01)
- Office1051 Dearbaugh Avenue / P.O. Box 26, Wapakoneta, Ohio 45895
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Auglaize County Ohio — Sheriff · checked 2026-09-20
The Judges
Ohio common pleas judges are elected to six-year terms; municipal and county court judges also set bail for people arrested in their areas. They are state judicial officers, not county officials.
Auglaize County Circuit Court
- Not found
- 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 County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe jail budget, the building itself, and the agreements that send prisoners to a regional jail or rent beds to other agencies. In Cuyahoga and Summit, the elected County Executive and County Council.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and has charge of the county jail by state law (Ohio Rev. Code 341.01) — unless the county uses a regional jail run by a multicounty board.
- NoteThree elected commissioners: David Bambauer, Doug Spencer, John Bergman.
- The boardAuglaize County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county's own site carries the sheriff's pages. The Correctional Center page names the jail, publishes a rated capacity of 101 with a bed breakdown by category, visitation hours and the vendor's call, video and messaging rates.
- The county publishes its PREA policy on its own site, and that policy says the PREA policy and PREA audits are to be published on the jail's website.
- The inmate lookup is on a county subdomain (countyjail.auglaizecounty.org) behind a terms-of-use gate; the county's own lookup page describing it was opened and is cited.
- No deaths-in-custody record, county-posted inspection report, housing/food/medical contract or bond-posting guidance was found. The commissioners publish minutes and resolutions but no budget document was reachable.
- The 2023 ODRC inspection report PDF supplied with this kit returned a 404 at drc.ohio.gov, so the default state-inspection sentence is used; the state's listing for it named the facility as the Auglaize County Correction Center and Sheriff Michael Vorhees.
- State inspection/oversight: Ohio's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, through its Bureau of Adult Detention, inspects full-service county jails each year against the Minimum Standards for Jails in Ohio (Ohio Adm. Code 5120:1-8) and publishes the reports on its own website.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Auglaize 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 who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-20 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered