The Detention Center
Coshocton County Justice Center
- Operated byCoshocton County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address328 Chestnut Street, Coshocton, Ohio 43812
- Design capacityDesigned to house 60 inmates
- Built1973
- Who it holdsPeople held for the county sheriff, West Lafayette Police, probation and parole, and federal agencies
- Jail staff1 jail administrator, 1 jail sergeant, 1 jail corporal and 8 full-time corrections officers across four shifts
- CommissaryOrdered Wednesday, delivered Friday; Keefe Commissary Network
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Charles Udischas — Jail Administrator, Coshocton County Sheriff's Office
Source: Coshocton County Sheriff's Office — Inmate Information · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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 — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1973
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds60 (design capacity)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Christopher Walters
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office runs the Coshocton County Justice Center at 328 Chestnut Street, Coshocton
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Coshocton 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.
Coshocton 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-member board; offices at 401 1/2 Main St, Coshocton. Minutes are posted as an uploads directory on the county's own site.
- The boardCoshocton County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's pages sit on the county's own domain (coshoctoncounty.net) and name the Coshocton County Justice Center, its 1973 construction and its 60-inmate design capacity.
- The county posts a jail roster PDF on its own domain; the copy read was printed 18 September 2026 and listed 48 people with housing area, booking number and booking date.
- The inmate information page gives bond-posting guidance — Common Pleas cash and surety bonds Monday to Friday 8am-4pm, municipal court bonds accepted in person at any time.
- Commissary and telephone arrangements are described but no rates are published, so the fees check is 'no'.
- The page says the jail holds people for West Lafayette Police, probation and parole and federal agencies, but no contract document is published, so the contracts check is 'no'.
- The commissioners' downloads page carries no budget or appropriations document, so the budget check is 'no'.
- No PREA, deaths-in-custody or county-posted inspection report was found.
- 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 Coshocton 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