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

The Detention Center

Washington County Jail

Operated byWashington County Sheriff's Office, Corrections Division
Jail address101 Westview Avenue, Marietta, OH (off Gilman Avenue)
Rated capacity124 inmates in 62 cells
OpenedCompleted 2004; began accepting inmates July 9, 2004
Average daily population111 (90 male, 21 female) in the 2024 annual report

Source: Washington County Sheriff — Corrections · 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 Washington 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 built2004
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
Beds124 inmates in 62 cells

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Mark A. Warden

Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's Corrections Division operates the Washington County Jail
How the office is filledElected, four-year term

Still needed

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

Source: Washington 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.

Washington 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.
NoteNo Washington County commissioners page could be opened; the county domain wcgov.org refused the fetch.
The boardWashington County Board of Commissioners
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

This is the strongest-publishing county in the group on PREA. The Corrections page hosts a 2024 PREA audit report, a Prison Rape Elimination Act policy, several years of sexual victimization surveys and reports, and a PREA press release — all PDFs on the sheriff's own domain.
The jail's rated capacity (124 inmates, 62 cells) and its 2004 opening are published on the Corrections page; the sheriff's 2024 annual report repeats the capacity and gives an average daily population of 111.
A daily inmate roster PDF is published on the sheriff's own domain alongside a name search at jailroster.wcgov.org.
The 2024 annual report was read in full: it carries operational counts but no sheriff or corrections budget figures, no deaths-in-custody data and no contracts to house other agencies' inmates, so those checks are 'no'.
Video visitation is scheduled through a vendor and visitation rules are published, but no phone, video or commissary rates appear, so fees is 'no'.
The county government domain wcgov.org refused the fetch, so no county budget document or commissioners' page could be examined.
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 Washington 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