The Detention Center
Monroe County Correctional Facility
- Operated byMonroe County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address47129 Moore Ridge Road, Woodsfield, OH 43793
- VisitsOne 30-minute visit per week, scheduled 48 hours in advance, up to three visitors
- Inmate accountsDeposits by lobby kiosk, phone or accesscorrections.com
Source: Monroe County Sheriff — Jail · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
- ✗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 Derek Norman
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office operates the Monroe County Correctional Facility
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Chief deputyJason Rinard
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Monroe 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.
Monroe County Circuit Court
- Monroe County Court of Common Pleas
- Monroe County Probate and Juvenile Court
- Monroe County 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 of County Commissioners (Mick Schumacher, Bill Bolon, Diane Burkhart); meets Mondays at 9:00 AM.
- The boardMonroe County Board of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff Derek Norman is named on the county's own sheriff page and on the sheriff's own site, matching the state association directory.
- The jail page states the facility 'enforces a zero-tolerance policy for sexual assault, abuse, and staff misconduct' and gives a reporting line, which we counted as PREA information.
- No bed count, roster, bond guidance, fee schedule, inspection report or contract is published on either the sheriff's site or the county site.
- The vendor page linked for video visits (thevisitor.icsenforcer.com) is not first-party and carries no rates; it was not scored.
- No county budget document was found on the county site; the auditor's page points to a separate auditor portal with no budget links.
- 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 Monroe 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