Mahoning County, Ohio — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Mahoning County Justice Center (MCJC)

Operated byMahoning County Sheriff's Office
Jail address110 Fifth Avenue, Youngstown, OH 44503
Jail administration330-480-4920; inmate commissary 330-480-4955; inmate medical 330-480-4960
VisitationOne free 20-minute video visit per week; additional visits may be purchased
Phone callsLimited to 15 minutes; Securus Technologies is the provider

Source: Mahoning County Sheriff — Inmate Information · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
✓Deaths in custody
✓PREA audits
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Mahoning County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-20. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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 Jerry Greene

Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office operates the Mahoning County Justice Center
How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Ohio Rev. Code 311.01)
BackgroundRe-elected to a third term; deputy from 1991, captain in 2007, FBI National Academy 234th session in 2008

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Mahoning County Sheriff — Meet the Sheriff · 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.

Mahoning 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.
NoteThe county's home page and agenda centre could not be opened in this session (robots.txt fetch timed out), so no minutes or agenda URL was confirmed; only the sheriff's own sections of mahoningcountyoh.gov answered.
The boardBoard of Mahoning County Commissioners
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

mahoningsheriff.com could not be opened in this session (robots.txt fetch timed out); the sheriff's pages were reached instead on the county's own domain at mahoningcountyoh.gov/966/Sheriff and on sheriff.mahoningcountyoh.gov.
The Inmate Information page on the county domain publishes an active inmate roster, recent bookings and recent releases at pii.mahoningcountyoh.gov, a county subdomain; the portal itself redirect-looped between https and http and could not be opened, so the roster is cited to the county page that publishes it.
PREA is published twice over: a PREA document and a PREA year-end report for 2025, both in the county's own document centre.
The MCSO General Orders Manual, published on the sheriff's own document centre, carries section 18.5 'Deputy Involved Shootings – In Custody Deaths – Serious Uses of Force', which is a deaths-in-custody policy; no individual death record is published.
The inmate handbook and visitation policy describe one free 20-minute video visit a week and 15-minute phone calls but publish no rates or amounts, so the fees check stays 'no'.
No bed capacity, bond guidance, county budget line, inspection copy or contract was found on the county or sheriff pages that opened; the county's budget and financial-report documents were behind fetches that were refused.
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 Mahoning 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