The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byPike County Sheriff's Office (by statute)
- Why no nameThe county's own site never names or mentions a jail. The sheriff's own site, wp2.pikecosheriff.com, could not be opened (its certificate does not match the hostname), so nothing there could be read.
- Rated capacityNot found
Source: Pike County Ohio Commissioners — Pike County Sheriff · checked 2026-09-20
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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 Tracy D. Evans
- Runs the jailYes — Ohio Rev. Code 341.01 puts the sheriff in charge of the county jail. No regional jail arrangement was found for Pike County.
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term (Ohio Rev. Code 311.01)
- Office address14050 US-23, Waverly, Ohio 45690
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pike County Ohio Commissioners — Pike County 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.
Pike County Circuit Court
- Pike County Court
- Pike County Juvenile Court
- Pike County Probate 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.
- NoteThe county site's Meeting Minutes and Documents pages both read 'This page is coming soon...' — no minutes or documents are actually published there. An agendas page is linked.
- The boardPike County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Pike County's public website is run by the county commissioners at pikecountyohcommissioners.gov. Its sheriff page is a one-paragraph mission statement and contact block; it says nothing at all about a jail, corrections, inmates, bond or capacity. We quoted the page in full to be sure.
- The sheriff's own website (wp2.pikecosheriff.com, linked from the county page) could not be opened: the site's TLS certificate does not match its hostname, so our reader refused it. http://www.pikecosheriff.com failed the same way. That site was not examined and nothing about it is scored here.
- The county's Documents page and Meeting Minutes page both say 'This page is coming soon...' and publish nothing.
- The one budget-looking document on the county site, 'Public Notice - Tax Budget.pdf', is a scan with no machine-readable text, so we could not see whether it carries a sheriff or jail line. It is recorded as a no rather than a yes.
- Sheriff's name confirmed on the county's own sheriff page and spelled there as Tracy D. Evans; the Buckeye State Sheriffs' Association directory gives the shorter 'Tracy Evans'.
- Pike County has no entry in the ODRC report list supplied with this work, and no search was spent hunting one.
- Not scored: The sheriff's own site was refused on a certificate mismatch and never examined; the only page read was a one-paragraph county sheriff blurb with nothing about the jail. Marking the rest 'not published' would claim more than was checked.
- 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 Pike 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