The Detention Center
Logan County Jail
- Operated byLogan County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address284 County Road 32 South, Bellefontaine, OH 43311
- Rated capacity140
- Size45,000 square feet
- Opened18 November 2000
- Construction cost$8.5 million
- VisitationFrom 8 September 2026 face-to-face visits replaced by free onsite video visitation, 7 days a week
- Programs listedRecreation, commissary, work release, religious services, GED, mental health and drug/alcohol counseling, medical
Source: Logan County Sheriff — Corrections · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 built2000 (opened 18 November 2000)
- Original cost$8.5 million
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds140
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Randall J. Dodds
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office operates the Logan County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Ohio Rev. Code 311.01)
- Office address284 County Road 32 South, Bellefontaine, OH 43311
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Logan County Sheriff's Office (logancountyohio.gov) · 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.
Logan County Circuit Court
- Logan County Common Pleas Court
- Logan County Common Pleas Court — Family Court
- Logan County Domestic Relations Court
- Logan County Juvenile Court
- Logan County Probate Court
- 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; Joe Antram (President), Greg Fitzpatrick (Vice-President), Michael E. Yoder. Offices at 117 E. Columbus Ave, Bellefontaine.
- The boardLogan County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's site logansheriff.com redirects to the county's own page at logancountyohio.gov/sheriff.html; the jail is covered on the county's Corrections page.
- The Corrections page publishes the jail's name, address, 140-bed capacity, opening date and $8.5 million cost — unusually full building detail for a county this size.
- The Corrections page says a free app can be used to view the inmate roster but publishes no roster link, so no roster URL could be opened.
- No bond or bail guidance, fee rates, PREA material, deaths-in-custody record, inspection copy or contract appears anywhere on the county site pages opened.
- Commissioners publish weekly agendas and meeting minutes back through 2025 as PDFs; no budget or appropriation document showing the sheriff or jail line was found on the pages 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 Logan 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