The Detention Center
Licking County Justice Center
- Operated byLicking County Sheriff's Office — Jail Division
- Jail address155 E Main St., Newark, OH 43055
- Justice Center phone(740) 670-5501
- Vendors namedICSolutions (phone and video visitation), Keefe Commissary Network, MailGuard Tracker
- Services describedMedical, dental and mental health services, programming and educational classes
- Jail AdministratorGreg Cook — Captain, Jail Division, on the sheriff's organizational list
Source: Licking County — Jail Inmate Information · 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 Randy Thorp
- Runs the jailYes — the Jail Division runs the Licking County Justice Center
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address155 E. Main St., Newark, OH 43055
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Licking County Sheriff's Department · 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.
Licking 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 20 S 2nd St., Newark. Members listed: Timothy E. Bubb (President), Duane H. Flowers (Vice-President), Rick Black. No agendas, minutes or budget documents are linked from the board page.
- The boardLicking County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The BSSA URL lcounty.com redirects to lickingcounty.gov/depts/sheriff, the county's own domain.
- Roster: the county's own application subdomain publishes an 'Active Inmate Listing - Licking County Jail' showing booking numbers, housing, charges, bonds and case dispositions; the copy read was current to 17 Sept 2026.
- The Jail Inmate Information page names the Licking County Justice Center and names the phone, video-visit and commissary vendors, but publishes no rates, so fees scored 'no'.
- The per-module pages (MOD A, MOD K and the rest) linked from the jail section all return 'This page is not active', so no capacity or classification information could be read.
- No rated capacity, jail budget line, deaths record, PREA material, county-posted inspection report, housing contract or bond-posting guidance found on lickingcounty.gov. The sheriff's organizational list names a Budget Administrator (Captain Mike Crider) but publishes no figures.
- Phone and web checks credited to the office.
- 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 Licking 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