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

The Detention Center

Morrow County Correctional Facility

Operated byMorrow County Sheriff's Office
Jail address101 Home Road, Mt. Gilead, OH 43338
Rated capacity126 beds, full-service facility (sheriff's own site)
Who is heldFelony and misdemeanour male inmates; misdemeanour female inmates
VisitsVideo visitation only; two hours a week in 30-minute blocks
Vendors namedAccess Corrections (deposits), ICSolutions (phones and video visits), ohcountiespackages.com (packages)

Source: Morrow County Sheriff — Correctional Facility · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✓Beds and daily population
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Morrow 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
Beds126 beds published by the sheriff; the 2025 state inspection report gives a general housing capacity of 104 beds and a recommended capacity of 96

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff John L. Hinton

Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's office operates the Morrow County Correctional Facility
How the office is filledElected, four-year term
Office address101 Home Road, Mt. Gilead, OH 43338

Still needed

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

Source: Morrow 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.

Morrow 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 sheriff's county-offices page links a commissioners page at morrowcounty.info, but that domain refused our reader (self-signed certificate), so no board page could be opened.
The boardMorrow County Board of Commissioners →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

Sheriff John L. Hinton is named on the sheriff's own site, matching the state association directory; the 2025 state inspection report names 'John Hinton'.
The sheriff's correctional facility page publishes the jail's rated capacity (126 beds), a detailed sexual-assault awareness and prevention policy (PREA), and the current roster link.
The roster at jdsinc.net/ohmorrow is headed 'New Inmate Roster MORROW COUNTY' with a run date of 09/20/2026, so it is the county's own current in-custody list.
The sheriff's page says 'We have received a 100% passing score on the Bureau of Adult Detention Inspection' but does not post a copy of the report, so inspections is 'no'.
The county's bed figures differ from the state's: the sheriff publishes 126 beds; the 2025 state report gives 104 general housing beds and a recommended capacity of 96. Both are recorded as published.
No bond guidance, fee rates, contract, budget document or death-in-custody record was found on the sheriff's site.
What was tried and refused: http://www.morrowcounty.info/morrow_commissioners.htm and http://www.morrowcounty.info/morrowoff.htm (certificate/robots failure); the ICSolutions phone-service PDF opened but had no machine-readable text.
State inspection/oversight: Ohio's Bureau of Adult Detention inspected the Morrow County Correctional Facility on 12 August 2025 under the Minimum Standards for Jails in Ohio (Ohio Adm. Code 5120:1-8); the report, published on the state's site and dated 25 September 2025, says the facility 'was found to be in compliance with the onsite jail inspection for the 2025 calendar year.'

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Morrow 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