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Paulding County Jail Overview

Paulding County Jail is an Ohio full-service county jail operated by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office. The facility is part of the sheriff's office complex in the county seat and holds the local jail population for Paulding County. It is not a state prison and it is not a federal detention center. The jail population can include people newly arrested by local law enforcement, people committed by Municipal Court or Common Pleas Court, people serving local jail time, probation violations, warrant arrests, and outside-agency holds when those holds appear in the roster record.

The Paulding County Sheriff's Office is led by Sheriff Jason K. Landers. The corrections division lists Captain Chris Dilling as Jail Administrator, with sergeants, correction officers, a nurse, and kitchen staff supporting daily jail operations. The sheriff's corrections page says jail staff perform pre-book health screening, booking, fingerprinting, photographing, inmate safety and security work, booking-record maintenance, meal delivery, movement escorts, commissary delivery, medical-attention coordination, and visitation operations. Those local duties explain why the county jail roster, jail phone, records request process, and vendor links all matter for one custody question.

The sheriff's home page also points users to jail information tools for current inmates, commissary, prepaid phone services, and visitation scheduling. Sheriff Landers' site notes that jail information features are also available through the Paulding Sheriff's Office mobile app. The app is an added official path for the same jail features, but the county roster remains the main public lookup route for current Paulding County Jail custody.

The Paulding County Sheriff's Office home page is the source for the jail phone, sheriff name, and Jail Information menu.

The sheriff home page supports the contact and menu details used to route current inmates, visitation, phone, and commissary searches.

The sheriff's corrections page is the best local source for the facility's current operating model.

The Paulding County Sheriff's Office corrections page shows the jail capacity, staff roles, and reopening history used for this facility profile.

The corrections page ties the Paulding County Jail roster search to the real facility, staff, and local jail capacity rather than to a third-party directory.

Paulding County Jail Capacity

The sheriff's corrections page states that Paulding County Jail is equipped for 52 inmates. That total is broken into 40 male beds, 8 female beds, and 4 cells available for solitary confinement. Research also found ODRC inspection material treating Paulding County Jail as a full-service jail and confirming the 52-capacity figure in the 2024 inspection snippet. The 2025 inspection landing page was dated December 2, 2025, with search text stating that the jail was inspected on November 25, 2025.

The current inmate roster snapshot in the research returned 20 records for In Custody On June 24, 2026. That is a point-in-time count, not an average daily population and not a yearly booking total. It equals 38.5 percent of the 52-bed equipped capacity when calculated from the official capacity and that one roster snapshot. Annual bookings, average daily population, and average length of stay were not located in the official accessible sources reviewed, so those figures should not be guessed.

Paulding County Jail Roster Lookup

The correct online lookup for current Paulding County Jail inmates is the official current inmates roster. It is a Zuercher/CentralSquare public portal linked from the sheriff's Jail Information menu. The portal is for current county jail custody and custody records tied to the selected in-custody date. It is not the place to search Ohio prison custody after a state sentence, and it is not a BOP or ICE locator.

The roster can return current records without a visible public login. The research found default search controls for name, race, sex, arrest date, held-for agency, and in-custody date, with the default in-custody date set to the current date. A June 24, 2026 query returned 20 records. Inspected records showed mugshots, names, race, sex, age, arrest date, hold reasons, blank release dates for current records, and juvenile flags marked false. Some charge or warrant facts were in hold reason text rather than in a separate case page.

1. Open the sheriff-linked current inmates roster and leave the in-custody date at the current date for the live jail list.
2. Enter a name if known, or use a blank name search to view the current roster when the portal allows it.
3. Narrow by race, sex, arrest date, or held-for agency only when a broad search returns too many records.
4. Read the row for mugshot, name, demographic fields, arrest date, and visible hold or bond language.
5. Call Paulding County Jail at (419) 399-2170 if the result is missing, stale, or unclear.

The Paulding current inmates portal is the county roster source for active Paulding County Jail custody.

The roster screenshot is useful because it shows the official county search environment, not a scraped inmate list or a commercial mugshot page.

Paulding County Jail Contact

Use the jail phone for custody confirmation, visit questions, and practical jail information that is not published online. Use the sheriff main number for records routing, administration, and questions that do not require the jail control desk. The sheriff's records policy says questions and public-records requests may be directed to Lt. Matt McDougall at the sheriff's main number.

Official public lobby hours and visitor parking details were not located in the reviewed sheriff materials. Call before traveling for a visit, records question, bond question, or in-person request. Visitors from Antwerp, Payne, Oakwood, Grover Hill, Cecil, Latty, and other parts of Paulding County should route to the village of Paulding first, then to East Perry Street.

Paulding County Jail Visitation

Paulding County Jail uses ICSolutions/The Visitor for video visitation. The Paulding-specific vendor page says visitors can register at no cost and that visits can occur onsite through video terminals in the facility's visitation center or offsite from a compatible device. The source did not publish a weekly schedule with days and hours, so a schedule should not be invented.

ICSolutions says offsite visits are fee-based and that cost varies by facility. The vendor also warns that internet connectivity issues during offsite visits will not be refunded. Visitors should register first, test the required device or application, and confirm current ID, dress, child-visitor, arrival, and professional-visit rules with the jail before scheduling. Attorney and professional visitors should call the facility because Paulding-specific confidential visit rules were not found in the reviewed public material.

The ICSolutions Paulding County Jail page is the published vendor source for video visitation options.

The visitation source supports a type-and-registration table, but it does not support listing daily visit times.

Paulding County Jail Mail Money

Published Paulding-specific inmate mail rules were not located in the reviewed sheriff or visitation sources. Do not assume that books, photos, envelopes, packages, money orders, or a particular postcard rule are accepted. Before mailing anything, call the jail and ask for the current mailing format, banned items, legal mail rules, and whether an inmate number or housing detail is required. At a minimum, use the inmate's full name and the jail's official address only after the facility confirms the format.

The sheriff site links Access Corrections for commissary or bond and links ICSolutions for prepaid phone services. Those channels are not the same. Commissary money supports inmate account spending, phone or video funds support communication, and bond relates to a court-set release condition. If a roster entry says no bond, sentenced, probation or parole hold, or holding for another facility, paying money through a vendor may not produce release.

Access Corrections is the sheriff-linked route for commissary or bond questions, while the jail should confirm the account type before any payment is made.

The Access Corrections image fits the money section because Paulding County routes commissary and bond users to that vendor from the jail information menu.

Paulding County Jail Booking

Booking at Paulding County Jail begins when a person is brought in by the sheriff's office, a village police department, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a court commitment, probation authority, or another agency reflected by the roster controls. The sheriff's corrections page specifically lists pre-book health screenings, booking, fingerprints, photographs, and safety and security duties. Staff also maintain inmate files and booking records.

Research found roster hold reasons for bench warrants, arrest warrants, indictment warrants, misdemeanor and felony charges, probation violations, no-bond holds, sentenced holds, cash or credit card bond amounts, judge-set bond notes, and outside-facility holds. Those labels are custody and hold details, not final court outcomes. Court filings, charge status, plea, sentence, and conviction details come from the court record after filing, not from the jail row alone. Ohio law also requires a jail register with the prisoner's name, commitment date and cause, and discharge date and manner.

Booking

The jail intake process that creates the custody record, photo, fingerprints, and initial hold information.

Hold reason

The roster text that explains why the person is held, such as a warrant, charge, sentence, or outside-agency hold.

Classification

The jail's internal process for housing and supervision decisions. Paulding's public system includes PCSO cell-block labels.

Detainer

A request or hold from another agency that can keep a person in custody even after one local issue is resolved.

Paulding County Jail Records

If the current roster does not answer the question, use the sheriff's records request policy. The policy is tied to the Ohio Public Records Act, ORC 149.43. It says a request does not have to be written, the requester does not have to provide identity, and the requester does not have to disclose intended use. The office may ask for those items only after explaining that they are optional and may help identify, locate, or deliver records.

The policy also says the office may deny an ambiguous or overly broad request, but must give the requester a chance to revise it and explain how records are maintained or accessed. Fees for copies or delivery may be required in advance. If all or part of a request is denied, the office must give reasons and legal authority, and a written request receives a written explanation. Redactions may apply to restricted material, including protected law-enforcement, juvenile, victim, trial-preparation, or confidential content.

1. Start with the current inmates roster for active Paulding County Jail custody.
2. Call the jail if the person may be newly booked, released, transported, or held for another agency.
3. Ask the sheriff's office for a booking record, jail register entry, booking photo, hold reason, bond information, or date-based jail record when needed.
4. Use Municipal Court or Common Pleas Court records for formal charges and outcomes after filing.

The sheriff's records policy page is the official source for how Paulding County Sheriff's Office handles public records requests.

The policy source is the right fallback when a current roster search does not show an older or more detailed jail record.

Paulding Jail Search Distinctions

A Paulding County Jail search covers local county jail custody. Once a person is sentenced to Ohio prison or placed under ODRC supervision, the Paulding roster may no longer be the right system. Use the ODRC Offender Search for Ohio prison, APA supervision, judicial release, or violator-at-large status. ODRC can search by name, offender number, county of commitment, residential county for supervision searches, status, and next parole board hearing month.

Federal and immigration custody are different again. Use the BOP inmate locator for sentenced federal prisoners from 1982 forward. Federal pretrial detainees may be in U.S. Marshals custody and may not appear in BOP until sentenced or committed. Use ICE ODLS for current ICE custody or CBP custody over 48 hours. Use Ohio VINELink for custody and release notifications, not as a substitute for the roster or court docket.

Paulding County Jail History

The Paulding County Jail has a specific recent history. The sheriff's corrections page says the county closed the jail as a full-service facility on November 20, 2008. After that closure, county inmates were housed outside Paulding County, and the local jail operated only as a six-hour temporary holding facility. That history can affect older custody questions because an older Paulding arrest may have involved out-of-county housing rather than a long stay in the local jail.

In November 2016, voters passed a five-year 1.35 mill levy to reopen the jail as a full-service facility. In June 2017, inmates were gradually transported back from out-housing in the Putnam County Jail. ODRC inspection materials later treated Paulding County Jail as a full-service jail, with the 2024 inspection snippet confirming capacity and the 2025 inspection landing page dated December 2, 2025. Research did not locate recent official consent decrees, DOJ investigations, major jail litigation, death-in-custody findings, or overcrowding release orders in the reviewed sources, so the record should be described as not located rather than denied.