The Detention Center
Holmes County Jail
- Operated byHolmes County Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
- Jail address8105 Township Road 574, Holmesville, Ohio 44633
- Rated capacity60 inmates (50 male beds, 10 female beds)
- Opened at this location1994
- Out-of-county housing rate$50.00 per day, which does not include medical costs
- Inmate phone rate$0.20 per minute plus taxes
- Jail AdministratorInez Strouse — Captain, Jail Administrator
Source: Holmes County Sheriff's Office — Jail and Corrections · 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 — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✓Who else it holds, and for how much
- ✗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 built1994 (jail opened at its present location)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds60 (50 male, 10 female)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Richard L. Haun, Jr.
- Runs the jailYes — the Corrections Division, also known as the Holmes County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address8105 Township Rd 574, Holmesville, OH 44633
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Holmes County Sheriff's Office — Our Staff · 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.
Holmes 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 at 2 Court St. Suite 14, Millersburg. Members listed: Joe D. Miller, Rob Ault, Eric Strouse.
- The boardHolmes County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff runs the jail. The Divisions page says 'The Corrections Division also known as the Holmes County Jail, is charged with care, custody and control of adult male and female inmates.'
- Capacity and fees both come from the Jail and Corrections page: 60 beds, and inmate calls at $0.20 per minute plus taxes.
- Contracts scored on the Divisions page, which publishes the terms on which the county holds other agencies' prisoners — 'out-of-county housing is $50.00 per day, which does not include medical costs'. No signed contract document is posted.
- No in-custody roster on the county or sheriff domain; the site's 'Ohio VINE' link is a vendor notification service and does not count.
- No deaths-in-custody record or policy, no PREA material, no county-posted inspection report and no bond-posting guidance found on either domain.
- The county's document library shows only folder categories; no budget or appropriations document was visible, so the sheriff/jail budget line was not found.
- Phone and web checks credited to the office.
- State inspection/oversight: Ohio's Bureau of Adult Detention inspected the Holmes County Jail in 2025 under the Minimum Standards for Jails in Ohio (Ohio Adm. Code 5120:1-8); the report, dated 16 October 2025, is published on the state's site.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Holmes 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