Adams County Jail Overview
Adams County Jail is a county full-service jail at 110 W. Main Street in West Union, Ohio. It is operated by the Adams County Sheriff's Office. Adams County Government lists Sheriff Kenny Dick as the sheriff contact, with the office at the same Main Street address and phone number 937-544-2314. The facility is the only confirmed detention facility in Adams County in the official source review. No state prison, Bureau of Prisons facility, ICE detention center, regional jail, work-release center, or separate annex was confirmed through the official research sources.
The custody population is local jail custody, not state-prison custody. The jail holds adult arrestees, pretrial detainees, people serving local jail sentences, and people held pending court action or transfer. A person sentenced to Ohio prison after an Adams County felony case should be searched through the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Offender Search at https://appgateway.drc.ohio.gov/OffenderSearch. Federal sentenced prisoners are searched through the BOP locator, and immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS. Those systems do not replace the Adams County JailTracker lookup for a recent local arrest.
The Adams County Government sheriff page is the official county contact source for the sheriff's office, address, phone, and public office hours.
That county page is important because it anchors the facility contact information to Adams County, Ohio rather than to similarly named jails in other states.
Adams County Jail Capacity and Population
ODRC's 2025 Full Service Jail Annual Inspection Report identifies Adams County Jail as a full-service jail and gives the most useful sourced population snapshot. The inspection took place July 9, 2025, with a letter dated July 28, 2025. The report lists 38 actual general housing capacity, 21 ODRC recommended housing capacity, and 56 inmates incarcerated on the inspection date. These are inspection-date figures, not average daily population, annual bookings, or a live count.
The 2025 report also says the jail met the overall compliant-jail threshold, with 169 compliant standards and 7 noncompliant important standards. The noncompliance notes are still meaningful. ODRC documented population above recommended capacity, some inmates not assigned a bed, limitations on housing female inmates according to classification because of age and layout, space and dayroom limits, lighting deficiencies, major repair needs, and a booking cell that lacked natural light.
| Year | Inspection-Date Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | ODRC snippet also reported 38 capacity. |
| 2022 | 44 | Above the 38-capacity figure in the snippet. |
| 2023 | 37 | Near actual capacity. |
| 2024 | 48 | Above actual capacity. |
| 2025 | 56 | Above 38 actual capacity and 21 recommended capacity. |
How to Look Up an Inmate at Adams County Jail
Current Adams County Jail inmates are searched through the sheriff-linked JailTracker/Public Safety Cloud roster. The official court pages link "Jail/Inmate Information" to http://www.adamscountyso.com/AdamsCoSO_Inmatelist.html, an inmate-list frame that routes to the Public Safety Cloud JailTracker interface at https://omsweb.public-safety-cloud.com/jtclientweb/jailtracker/index/Adams_County_Oh. The older official interface was titled "Adams Co. Sheriff Dept, OH." If the roster does not load, call the jail because the public interface can depend on the vendor app, browser behavior, captcha, and facility data updates.
- Open the court-linked inmate information frame or the direct Public Safety Cloud JailTracker route.
- Use the roster's name search. Start with last name, then add first name if needed. Try alternate spellings, hyphenated names, or middle initials if the first search fails.
- Choose current inmates for a person believed to be in custody now. Use recent-release options only if that control appears and the person may already have been released.
- Open any matching profile or detail row and verify the booking date, charge description, bond fields, warrant number, case number, hold fields, and release status.
- Call Adams County Jail at 937-544-2314 before relying on custody, bond, transport, or release information.
The official court-linked inmate-list frame is the local route documented for Adams County Jail inmate information.
The frame matters because users may see an older sheriff page before the modern JailTracker roster finishes loading.
Adams County Jail Address and Contact
The sheriff's office is the practical phone and in-person fallback for current custody questions, newly booked people who do not appear online yet, release timing, transport, bond confirmation, and records requests not answered by the roster. Adams County Government lists public office hours for the sheriff's office as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Booking and custody operations should be treated separately from front-office hours because jail operations continue beyond public counter hours.
Adams County Jail
110 W. Main Street
West Union, OH 45693
937-544-2314
Sheriff office public hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
For public-record requests, Ohio's Public Records Act, ORC 149.43, is the fallback source when a specific Adams County sheriff request form is not published. ORC 341.02 also requires the sheriff to keep a jail register showing each prisoner's name, date and cause of commitment, and date and manner of discharge. Requests can still be limited by exemptions, redactions, sealed records, juvenile records, investigatory records, medical details, victim information, and jail security concerns.
Visiting Someone at Adams County Jail
No official Adams County Jail visitation schedule, video-visit vendor, visitor-list procedure, dress code, child-visitor rule, or published visitor handbook was located in accessible official sources. That gap should be treated carefully. Do not use visitation rules from other Adams Counties, third-party jail pages, or unrelated Ohio facilities. Call 937-544-2314 before arrival to confirm whether visits are available, the approved days and times, identification requirements, visitor-list rules, dress expectations, attorney visit procedures, and whether a lockdown or court transport will affect the visit.
| Topic | Published Adams County Source | Practical Action |
|---|---|---|
| In-person schedule | Not located in official web research. | Call the jail before traveling. |
| Video visits | No verified vendor or schedule located. | Do not create an account with a vendor unless the jail confirms it. |
| Visitor ID | No Adams County rule page located. | Expect to confirm government photo ID requirements directly. |
| Attorney visits | No public schedule located. | Arrange through the jail or court process. |
| Emergency changes | No public alert system for visit changes located. | Call ahead because visits can change for security, medical, court, or staffing reasons. |
Mail, Phone, and Money at Adams County Jail
Official Adams County sources available in research did not publish a jail mail policy, commissary vendor, phone vendor, tablet provider, money-deposit method, deposit fee table, or inmate-number mail format. The confirmed physical address is 110 W. Main Street, West Union, OH 45693, but mail should not be sent until the jail confirms the correct addressing format, whether the inmate name, booking number, or jacket number is required, and what items are prohibited. JailTracker exposes booking number and jacket fields, but that does not prove a required mail format.
| Service | Provider or Detail | Status From Research |
|---|---|---|
| Mail Address | Physical jail address is confirmed, but inmate-mail format was not published. | Confirm with 937-544-2314 before sending. |
| Phone / Video | No official provider located. | Do not assume Securus, GTL, ICSolutions, or another vendor. |
| Money Deposit | No official kiosk, online, mail, or phone deposit process located. | Call the jail for accepted methods and fees. |
| Commissary | No official commissary vendor or price list located. | Ask the jail whether deposits are available for commissary and how restrictions work. |
Ohio jail standards still require full-service jails to maintain inmate rules that cover mail, telephone access, visitation, correspondence, medical care, hygiene, laundry, programs, conduct, discipline, and grievances. Those standards support asking the jail for the current rules even where the rules are not posted publicly online.
Booking and Intake at Adams County Jail
A person arrested in Adams County is normally brought to Adams County Jail for local booking unless a medical, security, court, or outside-agency issue changes the route. Booking creates the custody record that may later appear in JailTracker and the jail register. Ohio standards require full-service jails to maintain reception and release procedures, and OAC 5120:1-10 addresses reception rules, inmate rules, and communication categories. The research did not locate an Adams County public booking handbook, so public information should avoid inventing property-release forms, booking fees, or exact processing times.
Typical intake includes identity recording, commitment information, property handling, search procedures, booking photograph, fingerprints, medical and mental-health screening, classification, housing assignment, and later court routing. Adams County's 2025 ODRC inspection makes classification and space particularly local issues because it noted difficulty housing female inmates according to classification due to the jail's age and layout, population above recommended capacity, and some inmates not assigned a bed.
About Adams County Jail
Adams County Jail is an older West Union jail with official capacity pressure documented in recent ODRC inspection material. A state/county jail-age source lists the jail as opened in 1973. The 2025 inspection found the facility compliant overall under Ohio's jail-inspection framework, but also described age, layout, bed, space, natural-light, lighting, and repair concerns. Those conditions connect directly to the county's new-jail planning record.
In May 2024, Ohio announced a $21,611,312 jail construction award for Adams County through the Ohio Jail Safety and Security Program. The stated purpose was to increase the number of beds and provide additional beds for males and females with special needs. In September 2025, Adams County posted a request for qualifications for architectural design services for the Adams County Correctional Facility, with submissions due September 22, 2025.
The Adams County RFQ for architectural design services shows the county's new correctional-facility planning process after the state construction award.
The RFQ supports describing the current jail as part of a documented replacement or new-facility planning process, not simply as a generic county jail.
Note: Confirm custody, bond, visitation, mail, and money rules with Adams County Jail before traveling or sending funds.
Directions to Adams County Jail
Adams County Jail is in West Union, the county seat, near the county government and court offices on Main Street. Official research confirmed the address but did not locate visitor parking rates, public transit directions, ADA entrance details, or a separate visitor entrance description. Use the address below for mapping, then call the jail to confirm where visitors should enter and whether parking or entry rules have changed.