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

The Detention Center

Not found

Operated byNot found
What the sheriff publishesNo jail, corrections, inmate or visitation page appears anywhere on meigssheriff.org
Where prisoners goNot stated on any first-party page opened

Source: Meigs County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

0/10Closed

✗The jail is named — not published
✗Who is in custody — not published
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Meigs 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 Scott Fitch

Runs the jailNot stated on any first-party page opened; the sheriff's site has no jail or corrections page
How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Ohio Rev. Code 311.01)
Office address104 E. Second Street, Pomeroy, OH 45769

Still needed

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

Source: Meigs 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.

Meigs County Circuit Court

Meigs County Court
Meigs County Probate & Juvenile Court

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.
NoteThree-member board: Shannon Miller, Jimmy Will and Zach Manuel; offices at 100 East Second St., Pomeroy. Meeting minutes are published on the commissioners' own site.
The boardMeigs County Board of Commissioners →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

Meigs County was examined, not skipped: every page on the sheriff's own site was opened — home, About the Sheriff, Staff, 911 Staff, Report a Crime, Sheriff Sales, Concealed Carry, Information/FAQ and Pay Online — and the commissioners' own site as well.
The sheriff's site is small and publishes nothing at all about a jail: no jail name, no inmate or visitation page, no corrections staff, and no statement of where county prisoners are held.
The commissioners' links page lists the sheriff's office but no jail link.
A county-government domain for Meigs could not be reached; the commissioners' own site at meigscountycommissioners.com served as the county's first-party page.
All ten checks are therefore genuine 'no' findings on first-party pages that were opened, not a failure to examine the county.
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 Meigs 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