The Detention Center
Summit County Jail
- Operated bySummit County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address205 East Crosier Street, Akron, OH
- Rated capacity671
- OpenedAugust 1990; an addition opened May 1995
- ClassificationClassified by the State of Ohio as a full service detention center
- DesignThe first large county jail in Ohio to use direct supervision management
Source: Summit County Sheriff's Office — About Corrections · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
5/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1990
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds671
Since then
- An addition opened in May 1995
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kandy Fatheree
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Corrections Division runs the Summit County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office53 University Ave., Akron
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Summit 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.
Summit County Circuit Court
- Summit County Court of Common Pleas
- Summit County Domestic Relations Court
- Summit County Juvenile Court
- Summit 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.
- NoteSummit is a charter county: it has an elected County Executive (Ilene Shapiro) and an eleven-member County Council (eight district seats and three at-large) instead of a three-member board of county commissioners.
- The boardSummit County Council (charter county, with an elected County Executive) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's own site names the jail, gives its address, its rated capacity of 671 and the dates it opened and was expanded.
- The corrections section publishes a "Current Inmate Roster" of its own; the roster page itself is a redirect wrapper that returned no readable body to our fetcher, so the list was not read, but the roster is plainly the sheriff's own and is counted.
- Bond guidance is clear on the Corrections FAQs: "All bonds must be paid at the Clerk of Courts Office of the court jurisdiction that is hearing the case. The Summit County Jail does not accept money for any bonds."
- The county's 2026 operating budget, published on the county's own site, carries General Fund departments 31010-Sheriff General Office and 31030-Sheriff Jail, so the budget check passes.
- Fees are acknowledged but never priced — the FAQs say only that for kiosk deposits "fees do apply" — so the fees check is no.
- No PREA material, deaths-in-custody information or inspection report appears on the sheriff's or the county's site, and no jail contract is posted.
- The sheriff's website listed in the state association directory (co.summit.oh.us/sheriff/) returns 404; the county root redirects to co.summitoh.net and the sheriff lives at sheriff.summitoh.net.
- What was tried and refused: fiscaloffice.summitoh.net redirects https down to http and dead-ends for our reader.
- 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 Summit 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