The Detention Center
Gallia County Jail
- Operated byGallia County Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
- Jail address535 Second Ave., Gallipolis, OH 45631
- StaffingFacility manager, shift corrections supervisor, 11 corrections officers and support staff including a re-entry specialist
- Deposit fee$4 per transaction at the 24/7 lobby kiosk for deposits to inmate accounts
- VisitationNon-contact video visitation through NCIC; all visits 30 minutes
- MailUS mail is opened and digitally scanned; originals placed in the inmate's property
- TrainingStaff hold Crisis Intervention Team (40 hours) and Mental Health First Aid (8 hours) certifications
- Jail AdministratorLieutenant Brooklyn Waldron — Jail Administrator, Gallia County Jail
Source: Gallia County Sheriff's Office — Jail · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗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
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Matt Champlin
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Corrections Division runs the Gallia County Jail at 535 Second Ave., Gallipolis
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Ohio Rev. Code 311.01)
- Office address537 Second Avenue, Gallipolis, OH 45631
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Gallia 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.
Gallia 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 of County Commissioners under Ohio Rev. Code 305.01. No Gallia County government site was opened, so no board page or minutes are recorded.
- The boardGallia County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's jail and corrections division pages name the jail, its address, its administrator and its staffing, and state a zero-tolerance policy on sexual abuse with several reporting channels including an outside entity — that is the basis for 'prea'.
- 'fees' rests on the published $4 kiosk deposit charge on the jail page; no phone or commissary rates are published.
- 'roster' rests on the sheriff's own inmate search page, which carries a 'CLICK HERE TO VIEW CURRENT INMATES' button; the listing itself is hosted in a Google Drive folder rather than on the sheriff's domain.
- No rated capacity, bed count, year built or construction cost is published on any page we opened, and the 2026 jail handbook PDF the site links returned no machine-readable text.
- What was tried: the ODRC 2023 Gallia County Jail inspection PDF supplied with the prompt (drc.ohio.gov/.../2023_GalliaCoJail_FSJ_AI.pdf) returned 404, so the default state inspection sentence is used and no report year is claimed.
- The state's listing described the facility as at 535 2nd Avenue, which matches the address the sheriff publishes.
- 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 Gallia 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