The Detention Center
Trumbull County Adult Justice Center
- Operated byTrumbull County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
- Jail address150 High Street NW, Warren, OH 44481
- Built1997, replacing a facility built in 1966
- LayoutA seven-story full-service jail and a two-story minimum-security jail
- Earlier historyA temporary county jail dates to 1800; the present site was selected in 1815
- Jail AdministratorLt. Tracy Wix — Corrections Division Director
Source: Trumbull County Sheriff — Justice Center · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1997
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- The 1997 justice center replaced a 1966 jail; the complex holds a seven-story full-service jail and a two-story minimum-security jail
The Sheriff
Sheriff Michael G. Wilson
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Corrections Division runs the Trumbull County Adult Justice Center
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office150 High St. NW, Warren
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Trumbull County, Ohio — Meet the 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.
Trumbull County Circuit Court
- Not found
- 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 commissioners — Tony Bernard (president), Rick Hernandez and Denny Malloy. The commissioners' page has no dedicated agendas-and-minutes page; meetings are recorded to the county's YouTube channel.
- The boardTrumbull County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's website listed in the state association directory (sheriff.co.trumbull.oh.us) is closed to our reader; the sheriff's pages live inside the county site at co.trumbull.oh.us/Sheriff.
- The county runs its own inmate search on a county subdomain (corrections.co.trumbull.oh.us/PublicView/) linked from the sheriff's inmate-search page, so the roster check passes.
- Bond guidance is published on the Inmate Information page: surety bonds carry a 10 percent fee, 10 percent bonds must be paid by money order and carry a $25 fee, and personal or signature bonds are set by the judge.
- That $25 is a bond fee, not a phone, visit, commissary or booking rate, so the fees check is no — no such rates are published.
- No rated capacity, PREA material, deaths-in-custody information, inspection report or jail contract was found on the county's domain.
- The commissioners' page points county spending questions to the state's checkbook.ohio.gov site rather than posting a county budget, so the budget check is no.
- The Justice Center history page refers to a Sheriff Monroe in describing past upgrades; the current sheriff on the county's own Meet the Sheriff page is Michael G. Wilson.
- 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 Trumbull 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