The Detention Center
Greene County Jail
- Operated byNot found
- StatusNo Greene County jail page could be opened; nothing recorded
- Jail AdministratorMajor David Jones — Commands the Jail Division; Captains Amy Cook and Tony Buschur also listed
Source: Greene County, Ohio (home page only) · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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
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 Scott Anger
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Ohio Rev. Code 311.01)
- ConfirmationNot confirmed on a county page - every Greene County sheriff and county page we tried was refused by robots.txt
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Buckeye State Sheriffs' Association directory (not a county page; unconfirmed) · 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.
Greene 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.
- NoteBoard page could not be opened; robots.txt refused all paths on the county domain.
- The boardGreene County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- RESCUE PASS: the sheriff's own site is at sheriff.greenecountyohio.gov, a subdomain the group's research never reached; greenecountyohio.gov itself disallows our reader by robots.txt.
- The Jail Division page on the sheriff's own domain names the Greene County Jail and lists the division's command staff.
- The sheriff's own domain publishes a live in-custody list; the copy read on 20 Sep 2026 showed bookings from that same day with charges and custody status.
- Capacity, budget, deaths, PREA, the county's own inspection copy, contracts, bond guidance and fee rates were not found on the sheriff's own domain.
- The office's Corrections Division profile is a PDF on the app vendor's CDN (cdn.myocv.com), not on a county domain, so it was not scored.
- Nobody examined Greene County's own pages, so no checks were scored.
- What was tried: the BSSA start URL http://www.co.greene.oh.us/index.aspx?nid=486 failed DNS resolution. https://www.greenecountyohio.gov/ returned its home page once, but every sub-path afterwards (including /486 and /486/Sheriff) was refused - 'All paths disallowed by robots.txt'. The sheriff's own subdomain https://www.sheriff.greenecountyohio.gov/, its /jailDivision page and its /inmateSearch page were all refused by robots.txt as well.
- Because only a home page opened, the ten checks are left empty rather than recorded as ten 'no's.
- Sheriff name is the Buckeye State Sheriffs' Association directory entry and was not confirmed on a county page.
- The county seat is not recorded from a page we opened, so seat_source is empty.
- 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 Greene 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