The Detention Center
Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio (CCNO)
- Operated byCCNO, a multicounty corrections centre governed by a board of member-county commissioners and sheriffs (Ohio Rev. Code 307.93)
- Jail address3151 County Road 2425, Stryker, OH 43557-9418
- Rated capacity576 funded beds
- Williams County's share55 beds
- Other bed allocationsLucas 170, Defiance 60, Fulton 47, Henry 37, US Marshals 202, Findlay 5
- Commission formed1987
- 2026 budget$22,246,147; member per diem rate $69.93
- 2025 average population560, or 97.2% of capacity; average stay 35.74 days
Source: Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio — Facility Statistics · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✓PREA audits
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✓Who else it holds, and for how much
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found (the governing commission was formed in 1987)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byMember counties and municipalities pay a per diem rate, $69.93 in the 2026 budget
- Beds576 funded beds, of which 55 are Williams County's
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Tom Kochert
- Runs the jailNo — Williams County is a member of the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio (CCNO) at Stryker, governed by a board
- Sits on the jail boardYes — listed as Williams County's sheriff member of the CCNO board, alongside Commissioner Bart Westfall
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Name spellingListed as Tom Kochert on the CCNO board page; the state association's directory gives Thomas E. Kochert
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio — Board Members · 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.
Williams 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.
- NoteCommissioner Bart Westfall sits on the CCNO board for Williams County. The county's own commissioners page could not be opened.
- The boardWilliams County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Williams County's elected sheriff does not run the jail: the county is one of five members of the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio at Stryker, together with Defiance, Fulton, Henry and Lucas counties and the City of Toledo and member municipalities. The board is made up of each member county's commissioner and sheriff; Williams is represented by Commissioner Bart Westfall and Sheriff Tom Kochert.
- The checks were judged on CCNO's own site, which the brief treats as first-party for its member counties. CCNO publishes considerably more than most county sites in this group.
- CCNO publishes a booking report and a searchable in-custody list, a facility statistics page with the 576-bed funded capacity and a 2025 average population of 560, and a budget page showing a 2026 budget of $22,246,147 and a $69.93 member per diem.
- The budget page also sets out beds contracted to outside agencies — 202 for the US Marshals Service and 5 for Findlay Municipal Court — which is how CCNO publishes its arrangements to hold other agencies' prisoners; the contracts check rests on that page, not on a contract document.
- CCNO's Report Sexual Abuse page carries a zero-tolerance PREA statement, 2024 sexual victimization data and links to its sexual assault policy, annual report and PREA audit report. The site states CCNO is PREA accredited and describes ACA audits every three years and state inspections, but publishes no inspection report copy, so inspections is 'no'.
- Phone and commissary pages set call length limits and a $100-per-week commissary spending cap ($110 for facility workers) but publish no rates, so fees is 'no'. No deaths-in-custody material and no bond guidance were found.
- Williams County's own site, williamscountyoh.gov, answered once with a header fragment and then refused every further fetch, so its sheriff, commissioners and agenda pages could not be judged and the county seat could not be sourced.
- 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 Williams 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