Carroll County, Ohio — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Carroll County Jail

Operated byCarroll County Sheriff's Office
Jail address43 Second Street S.E., Carrollton, Ohio 44615
Beds5 female beds and 30 male beds, plus 4 holding cells, 1 receiving cell and 1 padded cell
OperationDescribed as a full-service facility operating 365 days a year, 24/7
Jail phone330-627-2170
CommissaryCommissary day is Friday; orders capped at $70.00 per week
Phone providerIC Solutions; one free 30-minute call on booking, prepaid phone cards sold through commissary

Source: Carroll County Sheriff's Office — Jail / Inmate Information · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✓Beds and daily population
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Carroll County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-20. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds35 (5 female, 30 male), plus 4 holding cells, 1 receiving cell and 1 padded cell

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Calvin Graham

Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office runs the Carroll County Jail at 43 Second Street S.E., Carrollton
How the office is filledElected, four-year term
Office address43 Second St. SE, Carrollton, OH 44615

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Carroll County Sheriff's Office · 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.

Carroll County Circuit Court

Not found

Still needed

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.
NoteNo commissioners' page was reached; the sheriff's site carries no link to a Carroll County government site.
The boardCarroll County Board of Commissioners
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

The sheriff's own site names the Carroll County Jail and publishes its bed count and visiting, commissary and phone rules.
No public in-custody roster is published on the sheriff's site.
The jail rules PDF (Jail-Rules-Revised-07-2023.pdf) sets a $5.00-a-day administration fee for court-ordered work release, but publishes no phone, commissary or booking fee rates, so the fees check is 'no'.
No PREA, deaths-in-custody, inspection-report, contract or bond-posting material was found on the sheriff's site.
The sheriff's site links to no Carroll County government site, so no commissioners' page or county budget was reached.
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 Carroll 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