The Detention Center
Lucas County Corrections Center (county) and Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, CCNO (regional)
- Operated byLucas County Sheriff's Office (LCCC); Corrections Commission of Northwest Ohio (CCNO)
- LCCC address1622 Spielbusch Avenue, Toledo, OH 43604
- LCCC rated capacity403 across six inmate housing floors
- LCCC built1977; nine levels; mainly a pre-trial facility for serious felony charges
- CCNO address3151 County Road 2425, Stryker, OH 43557
- CCNO member countiesDefiance, Fulton, Henry, Lucas and Williams
- CCNO beds576 funded beds; 170 of them Lucas County's
- CCNO opened1990 — described as Ohio's first regional jail, under Ohio Rev. Code 307.93
- CCNO 2026 budget$22,246,147; member per diem rate $69.93
- CCNO 2025 average daily population560 (97.2% of capacity)
- Lucas County's CCNO board membersCommissioner Pete Gerken and Sheriff Mike Navarre
- Jail AdministratorMajor David Friddell — Corrections Administrator, Lucas County Sheriff's Office
Source: Lucas County Sheriff — Corrections Center · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✓Who else it holds, and for how much
- ✗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 built1977 (Lucas County Corrections Center); CCNO opened 1990
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds403 at the Lucas County Corrections Center; 576 funded beds at CCNO, 170 of them Lucas County's
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Michael J. Navarre
- Runs the jailYes for the Lucas County Corrections Center; Lucas County is also one of five member counties of CCNO, a regional jail run by the Corrections Commission of Northwest Ohio, on whose board the sheriff sits
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Ohio Rev. Code 311.01)
- Office address1622 Spielbusch Avenue, Toledo, OH 43604
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lucas 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.
Lucas County Circuit Court
- Not found
Still needed
- 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.
- NoteCommissioner Pete Gerken sits on the CCNO board for Lucas County. The county's own site co.lucas.oh.us answered only at its root in this session; its commissioners, budget and document-centre pages were refused, so no minutes URL was confirmed.
- The boardLucas County Board of County Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Lucas County runs two jails and both were examined: the Lucas County Corrections Center on the sheriff's own domain, and CCNO, the five-county regional jail, on ccnoregionaljail.org, which is first-party for its member counties.
- Named, capacity, roster and PREA were judged on the sheriff's own domain; budget and contracts on CCNO's own site.
- The sheriff's PREA page publishes a zero-tolerance policy, the full PREA policy document and annual reports for 2016 through 2025.
- The roster counted is the LCCC booking summary PDF published on the county's own lucapps.co.lucas.oh.us server and linked from the sheriff's home page; the copy opened was dated 20 September 2026 and covered bookings from 17 September.
- CCNO's 2026 budget of $22,246,147 and its $69.93 member per diem are published on its Operations/Budget page; its annual report records 369 funded member beds and 207 contracted beds, the contracts being with the US Marshals and the City of Findlay.
- CCNO's annual report states full compliance with ODRC Minimum Jail Standards, ACA re-accreditation in 2023 and PREA re-accreditation in 2024, but does not post a copy of the state inspection report itself, so the inspections check stays 'no'.
- CCNO's phone page names a $25 three-way-call fee but publishes no call rates, and its commissary page gives weekly spending caps ($100, or $110 for working inmates) rather than prices, so the fees check stays 'no'.
- No page opened on either domain gave bail or bond posting guidance, or a death in custody record or policy.
- No opened page explicitly calls Toledo the county seat; the seat source cited is the sheriff's corrections page giving the jail's Toledo address.
- 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 Lucas 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