Lookup Scioto County Correction Center Inmates

Scioto Correction Center Overview

The Scioto County Sheriff's Office operates the Scioto County Correction Center, commonly called the Scioto County Jail. It is a full-service Ohio county jail for adult local custody. Sheriff David Thoroughman's office lists the corrections division as one of the sheriff's four divisions, and the public jail information line is routed through the Corrections/Jail number. The jail is the correct place to begin for recent arrests made by Scioto County agencies, Portsmouth Police, or other local officers who book a person into county custody.

People held at the jail can include pretrial defendants awaiting court action, people serving local jail sentences, people held on local warrants, people waiting for transport, and work-release or trustee populations under jail rules. The public roster does not cover prisoners sentenced to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. If a person has already been transferred into state prison, use the ODRC locator instead of the county roster.

Scioto Jail Capacity

Ohio DRC annual jail inspection snippets cited in the research identify 190 general-housing capacity for the Scioto County Correction Center in 2019 and 2022 records. The live county roster showed 173 people on June 24, 2026. That is a snapshot, not an average daily population. Earlier inspection snippets listed 207 people on a 2018 inspection date and 194 people on a 2019 inspection date, which shows why dates matter when comparing jail count and capacity.

The sheriff's February 15, 2022 release says the Ohio DRC Bureau of Adult Detention certified the jail as a compliant jail on January 25, 2022, after a November 29, 2021 inspection. The same release explains that compliant status requires all essential standards and at least 90 percent of important standards. The jail had previously been a status jail, according to the sheriff's release.

Search Scioto Jail Roster

The jail roster path starts at the sheriff inmate information page and then opens the Department-Online current inmate listing. The page title inspected during research was "Scioto County Jail," and the roster heading was "Current Inmate Listing Search." It showed pagination, a search box, and public rows with booking photos and identifiers.

1. Open the sheriff inmate information page and select the Inmate Roster link.
2. Search by last name first, since the roster does not publish advanced search rules.
3. Compare first name, middle initial, booking date, physical descriptors, sex, race, and inmate ID.
4. If no match appears, call Corrections/Jail at (740) 355-8277 or make a public-records request for the booking record.

The roster is for current county jail custody. Formal charges, bond changes, dismissals, and sentencing should be checked through court records after a jail arrest, because the jail roster and court record answer different questions.

Scioto Jail Contact

Use the jail contact details for custody confirmation, visitation questions, and records routing. The sheriff's public-records policy also says inspection is during regular business hours except holidays, but the research did not locate separate jail lobby hours for every type of request. Call before traveling if the visit depends on a counter service, refund, or scheduled video visit.

Scioto Jail Visitation

The sheriff's official visitation page says Scioto County uses video visitation. Onsite video visits at the facility are no cost, while offsite remote video visits are fee-based and can be done from a compatible computer or mobile device. Visitors must register before visits, arrive and check in 15 minutes early for onsite visits, and bring state-issued photo identification. Most visits are scheduled by first initial of the inmate's last name or by the jail's housing labels.

The ICSolutions jail information page for Scioto County is the vendor-hosted source tied to video visitation scheduling.

The schedule is detailed by pod and last-name ranges, so confirm the inmate's current housing or visit group before selecting a visit time.

Scioto Jail Money

The sheriff's inmate information page states that jail commissary items must be ordered from the Scioto County Jail Commissary Kiosk. Public drop-off items are not permitted, accepted, or allowed inside the jail. Inmates may order twice weekly, on Monday and Thursday, if money is available by the cutoff. Family and friends can use in-person deposits, certified money orders by mail, Access Corrections, and Access Securepak care packages under the published rules.

Scioto Jail Booking

Booking starts after arrest by a local agency or on a warrant. The person is taken to the county jail unless medical care or another agency process comes first. Intake can include identity checks, paperwork, fingerprinting, a booking photo, property handling, screening, and classification. Ohio full-service jail standards require reception and release policies, housing standards, sanitation rules, and inmate services, but the sheriff's public pages did not publish a detailed medical or classification manual.

After a new arrest, Portsmouth Municipal Court may handle the first appearance or arraignment, especially for municipal, traffic, misdemeanor, and early felony proceedings. The prosecutor's official criminal-justice explainer says bond is set at initial arraignment and that felony cases can move through preliminary hearing, grand jury, indictment, Common Pleas arraignment, pretrial, trial, and sentencing. The roster can show a booking event before court records fully catch up.

Scioto Jail Certification

The sheriff's certification release is a key local facility record. It says the Ohio DRC Bureau of Adult Detention certified the jail as compliant in January 2022. The release says the jail had to comply with 52 essential standards and 119 important standards, 171 standards total. That certification should not be stretched into a current population report, but it is a useful source for the facility's standards status at that time.

For current custody, always use the live roster or the jail line. Certification, capacity, and inspection data are facility context, while the roster answers who is currently listed.