Guernsey County Jail Inmate Lookup

Guernsey County Jail Overview

Guernsey County Jail is operated by the Guernsey County Sheriff's Office at 601 Southgate Parkway, Cambridge, Ohio 43725. The sheriff is Jeffrey D. Paden. The jail is part of the Guernsey County Justice Center, and the sheriff's corrections page says the current jail was completed and began housing inmates in 1994. It is described locally as a full-service jail, meaning it is not just a short-term holding cell. It is built for adult detention and is subject to Ohio full-service jail standards.

The facility holds inmates arrested by law-enforcement agencies within Guernsey County. That includes people awaiting first appearance, people held pretrial, local misdemeanor or short-sentence inmates, probation or court holds, and people waiting on transfer to another custody system. It is not an ODRC state prison. Once a Guernsey County felony defendant is sentenced to prison and transferred to Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction custody, the jail roster is no longer the right lookup tool.

Guernsey County Jail Capacity and Population

Capacity and population pressure are major local facts for this facility. The sheriff's corrections page lists the older Bureau of Adult Detention recommended capacity as 66 beds, divided into 54 male beds and 12 female beds. ODRC 2025 annual inspection information reports 78 actual general-housing capacity and 88 inmates on the inspection date. The sheriff's page also reported a 2018 average daily population of 104 inmates and 2,523 total people held that year, including 1,812 men and 711 women.

County planning documents add context. A 2025 jail-addition RFQ described an approximately 8,007-square-foot, 66-bed dormitory addition because increased inmate population and Ohio jail-standards compliance created a need for more beds for all classification levels. That expansion proposal should not be read as a current operating capacity until final construction and official capacity updates are confirmed.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Guernsey County Jail

Use the 365Labs Guernsey County Sheriff inmate list for local jail custody. The sheriff also links the roster through its inmate portal. The roster has Recent, All, and Recent Releases tabs, plus First Name, Last Name, and Booking No. search fields. It can show mugshot availability, booking number, jacket number, date of birth, booking date, release date, charges, statutes, docket numbers, charging agency, and bail amount when populated.

1. Open the sheriff inmate portal or the direct 365Labs inmate list.
2. Choose Recent for bookings in the last 48 hours, All for current inmates, or Recent Releases for the last 48 hours of releases.
3. Search by first name, last name, or booking number, or browse the selected tab without entering a field.
4. Open the profile popup and confirm the person is connected to Guernsey County Jail before relying on charge, bond, visit, or mail details.

If the person is not listed but may have been newly arrested, call the jail at 740-439-4455. If the person has been sentenced to an Ohio prison, use ODRC Offender Search instead. For federal custody use BOP, and for immigration detention use ICE ODLS.

Guernsey County Jail Address and Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the Southgate Parkway contact block. The location is west/southwest of the downtown courthouse area in Cambridge. The Common Pleas Court and Clerk are near Wheeling Avenue, while Cambridge Municipal Court is at 150 Highland Avenue, Suite 1, so custody questions should be routed to the jail rather than the courthouse unless the issue is a court filing or certified docket record.

Visiting Someone at Guernsey County Jail

The current sheriff visitation page uses Securus scheduling and says video visits are scheduled daily from 8:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. A visit must be scheduled 24 hours in advance. Remote visits can be scheduled from a smartphone or computer, and onsite scheduling can be done from the terminal in the sheriff's lobby. The current rules prohibit inappropriate gestures or pictures and vulgar language, and violations can suspend or terminate visitation access.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Guernsey County Jail

Personal mail is handled through the Securus Digital Mail Center, not direct paper delivery to the jail. The sheriff's inmate mail page says this policy began August 10, 2021. Personal mail must include a return name and address or it is returned. Legal mail remains accepted directly at the facility, and publications must come from a publisher, distributor, or authorized retailer under jail procedures.

Calls are collect according to the sheriff's corrections page. Debit phone accounts may be set up by the inmate or by friends and family through Securus at 1-800-844-6591 or securustech.net. Research did not locate an official commissary deposit fee schedule or a confirmed public deposit vendor for Guernsey County Jail, so no deposit fee should be published without a current jail source.

Booking and Intake at Guernsey County Jail

The researched sheriff pages do not publish a full intake manual, but the jail roster and Ohio full-service jail context support a local intake workflow. A person arrested in Guernsey County may be brought to the jail, checked for identity and holds, processed for property, screened for medical or mental-health concerns, photographed and fingerprinted, assigned booking and jacket numbers, classified for housing, and listed in the public roster when the public system updates.

The roster can show a booking before every court detail is complete. Some inspected booking records had core identity, photo, booking, and date fields while BookingCharges was still empty. Court filings, bond orders, indictment, or amended charges may follow in Common Pleas or Municipal Court after the jail intake record appears. That is why the jail roster, court docket, and sheriff public-records request process serve different purposes.

About Guernsey County Jail

The facility's local history and operating details are unusually specific. Sheriff Paden's official biography says he began with the sheriff's office in October 1994 as a deputy working in the county jail, the same year the current jail began housing inmates. The corrections page describes full-service kitchen operations, twice-yearly inspections, a dietitian contract, 2,400-calorie daily intake, and medical service through Premier Physician Services with doctor visits as needed, one full-time nurse, and two part-time nurses.

Research did not locate an ACA accreditation, a public jail handbook, a grievance procedure, a detailed commissary fee schedule, or a published education or religious-services schedule. The safer description is that Guernsey County Jail is an Ohio full-service county jail subject to ODRC Bureau of Adult Detention inspection standards. ODRC inspection reports and county expansion documents should be used for population and conditions-related numbers.