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

The Detention Center

Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office Jail

Operated byTuscarawas County Sheriff's Office
Jail address2295 Reiser Ave SE, New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Jail phone330-339-7783
ProgramsEducational, addiction recovery, life skills, community reentry and religious services

Source: Tuscarawas County Sheriff — Jail Overview · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓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 — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Tuscarawas 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
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Orvis L. Campbell

Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Jail Division runs the county jail
How the office is filledElected, four-year term
Office2295 Reiser Ave. SE, New Philadelphia

Still needed

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

Source: Tuscarawas 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.

Tuscarawas 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.
NoteThree commissioners — Mitch Pace, Greg Ress and Kristin Zemis; office at 125 East High Avenue, New Philadelphia.
The boardTuscarawas 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 (co.tuscarawas.oh.us/tcso/) still answers but is an old shell whose links our reader could not resolve; the live sheriff pages are under co.tuscarawas.oh.us/government/sheriff.
The county publishes a "Currently Housed Inmates" roster as a PDF on its own domain, so the roster check passes.
The Jail Overview page names the jail and lists its programs but publishes no rated capacity, year built, cost, PREA material, inspection report, deaths-in-custody information or contract.
Commissary funding (accesscorrections.com) and video visitation (ICSolutions) are linked, but no fee rates are published, so the fees check is no.
The county auditor publishes annual financial reports on the county's own site; the 2024 report was opened and shows a combined "Public Safety" figure of $15,178,501 with the sheriff discussed only in narrative, not a separate sheriff or jail line, so the budget check is no.
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 Tuscarawas 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