The Detention Center
Cuyahoga County Corrections Center (CCCC)
- Operated byCuyahoga County Sheriff's Department
- Jail address1215 W 3rd St, Cleveland, OH 44113
- SizeTwo high-rise structures of about one million square feet; described by the sheriff's department as the second largest jail in the state
- ThroughputCare and management of over 26,000 people a year
- Average daily population2,168 (a 2015 figure on the sheriff's own corrections page)
- Medical careMetroHealth System manages health and mental health services
- LeadershipManaged by a Chief of Corrections, a Warden and Associate Wardens; no individual is named on the pages that opened
- Remote video visit fee$4.00 for a 25-minute visit; on-site video visits are free, one 20-minute session a week
Source: Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department — Corrections Center General Information · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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
- ✗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
- BedsNot found — no rated capacity was published on the pages that opened; the average daily population figure of 2,168 (2015) was
Since then
- Not found — county news items from July and August 2026 refer to a new county jail project and its design, but no construction facts were read
The Sheriff
Sheriff Harold Pretel
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's department runs the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center at 1215 W 3rd St, Cleveland
- How the office is filledCuyahoga is a charter county with an elected County Executive and County Council; its sheriff is appointed by the County Executive rather than elected as in Ohio's non-charter counties
- Title as publishedListed on the department's own page as 'Harold Pretel, Sheriff'
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department — About Us · 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.
Cuyahoga 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.
- NoteCuyahoga is a charter county: it has an elected County Executive and an eleven-member County Council instead of a three-member Board of County Commissioners. The Council page that opened was its biennial budget page.
- The boardCuyahoga County Council, with an elected County Executive (charter county) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's department names the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center and gives its Cleveland address on its own general information page.
- The corrections/jail page publishes PREA information — the Prison Rape Elimination Act programme and a stated zero tolerance of sexual abuse and sexual harassment — so the PREA check is 'yes'.
- The registration and visitation page publishes a video-visit rate: remote visits $4.00 for 25 minutes, on-site visits free, so the fees check is 'yes'.
- The sheriff's older site publishes an average daily population of 2,168, dated 2015; no current rated bed capacity was found.
- READ THIS BEFORE TRUSTING 'budget' AND 'inspections': both are recorded 'no' only because no document could be opened. The County Council's biennial budget pages and the Fiscal Officer's Budget and Management statistics page both list budget books, recommended budgets and appropriation schedules, but our reader returned their file names without URLs and every direct attempt at the budget PDFs failed on robots.txt timeouts, so no sheriff or corrections line was actually seen. Likewise no jail inspection report could be reached on the county's own site.
- The county's content management system strips hyperlinks from what our reader returns, so link lists could not be obtained for cuyahogacounty.gov pages; sub-pages had to be reached from search results and from known paths.
- Booking information is described as available through a Cuyahoga County Sheriff mobile app rather than a web roster, and no in-custody list on a county domain was opened, so the roster check is 'no'.
- No deaths-in-custody record, contract or bond-posting guidance was found on the pages that opened.
- 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 Cuyahoga 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