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Clinton County Jail Overview

Clinton County Jail is operated by the Clinton County Sheriff's Office at 1645 Davids Drive in Wilmington, Ohio. The sheriff's Corrections and Court Services page describes it as a full-service jail that opened in 2001. It is the primary local custody point for people arrested in Clinton County, people sentenced to serve jail time locally, and people waiting for transport to other Ohio jails or state prison.

The facility is not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. Its public roster is for current county jail custody. Once a person is sentenced to Ohio prison, the search normally shifts to ODRC. If federal or immigration custody is involved, BOP or ICE systems may become the better search path. For broader county search context, use the Clinton County inmate records page or the county inmate population overview.

The jail has general population housing areas for male and female inmates, plus disciplinary, administrative, and medical segregation areas. The sheriff's page also identifies a kitchen, medical staff, mental-health staff, corrections officers, and Court Services deputies connected to jail transport and courtroom security.

Clinton County Jail Capacity and Population

The strongest current facility numbers found in the project research are the sheriff's 92-bed capacity figure and two dated population snapshots. The ODRC 2025 inspection snippet showed 58 inmates against a 92-bed capacity. The Active Inmates roster snapshot showed 60 active inmates at 06-24-2026 10:36:43. Those snapshots place the jail below rated capacity, but they are not annual average daily population figures.

Who Is Held at Clinton County Jail

The jail holds pre-trial detainees awaiting court action, people sentenced to local jail time, and people awaiting movement to another facility. Arrests by the Sheriff's Office, Wilmington Police, village police, or other local agencies may flow to the county jail unless a person is cited and released or sent to a different jurisdiction. The research did not locate a separate adult city jail, regional detention center, work-release annex, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility inside Clinton County.

Housing is more detailed than a basic lockup. The sheriff's corrections page describes male and female general population areas, disciplinary segregation, administrative segregation, and medical segregation. Those distinctions matter when asking about visits, mail, phone access, or court timing because housing status and medical or disciplinary needs can affect access and movement.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Clinton County Jail

Current Clinton County Jail custody is searched through the sheriff's Active Inmates portal. The roster is free and does not require login, but the web version inspected did not show a visible text-search box. It provides sort controls and list or thumbnail views. The sheriff's Mobile Patrol app page says the app supports searching by first and last name, age, gender, alphabetical order, and recent bookings.

1. Open the Active Inmates portal and review the current roster.
2. Use List View for row-by-row comparison or Thumbnail View for mugshot cards.
3. Sort by Booking No, Jail ID, Booked date, or Name when scanning a long list.
4. Compare the name, booking number, booking date, age, sex, race, and physical description fields.
5. Call (937) 383-4813 or (937) 383-3292 if the match is unclear or an official custody answer is needed.

The roster's visible fields include name, mugshot, booking number, redacted Jail ID, booked date, redacted DOB, booked age, race, sex, height, weight, hair, and eye color. Charges, bond, housing unit, arresting agency, court date, release status, and holds were not visible in the inspected list or thumbnail views.

Clinton County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail phone numbers for custody confirmation, official inmate-list questions, records routing, visit planning, and mail or money questions. The sheriff main phone and email are broader Sheriff's Office contact channels, while the jail voice lines are the better starting point for jail-specific inmate information.

The sheriff's homepage states the office serves the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with emergencies routed through 911. The research did not locate a jail lobby public-records schedule, so visitors should call before making an in-person trip for records, official lists, or visit access details.

Visiting Someone at Clinton County Jail

Visits are handled by Securus video visitation through www.videovisitanywhere.com. The sheriff's jail-information page publishes on-site video times, remote video hours, two daily block-out windows, and a limit of two 20-minute visits per week. Visitors should schedule in advance and confirm current requirements before traveling to Davids Drive.

The sheriff's jail information page is the source for the published video visitation schedule and mail rules.

The jail information source is especially important because it separates on-site video visits, remote video visits, mail processing, and jail phone numbers.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Clinton County Jail

Personal mail is routed through the Securus Digital Mail Center rather than accepted directly at the jail. After receipt, personal mail is scanned and made available on tablets, kiosks, printed delivery, or the facility's internal process. Legal mail and publications from authorized sources go directly to the jail at Clinton County Jail, Inmate Name & Inmate ID#, 1645 Davids Drive, Wilmington, OH 45177.

Non-scannable items, packages, and certified mail are returned. Mail for released inmates is marked Return to Sender, Inmate No Longer in Custody. Because the public roster redacts the Jail ID, call the facility before sending legal mail or publications if the inmate ID is not known.

Booking, Intake, and Current Custody

Booking at a full-service jail generally includes identity confirmation, property handling, a booking photograph, demographic entry, classification, health screening, and housing assignment. The Clinton County research supports that outline through the sheriff's facility description and Ohio jail standards, but the sheriff does not publish a step-by-step booking manual. The roster may show a person after booking is processed, but it is not a guaranteed real-time legal record.

Current versus released status can be difficult on the day of arrest or release. The Active Inmates portal is current-custody oriented, and no public retention rule was located. A person may leave the roster after bond, release, court order, transfer, or sentence movement. For official status, use the jail phone lines and ask whether any local, probation, parole, state, federal, or immigration hold affects release.

Court Transport and ODRC Transfer

Clinton County Sheriff's Court Services deputies provide courtroom security and transport inmates to local court proceedings, medical appointments, prisons, and jails throughout Ohio. That means movement from the jail to court or to another custody system may happen through the sheriff's court-services function rather than a separate local agency.

After a felony sentence to Ohio prison, the person may no longer appear on the Clinton County Active Inmates page. The better search tool then becomes ODRC Offender Search. ODRC fields include name, county of commitment, residential county, zip, status, parole hearing date, inmate number, and sort controls. County of commitment can show Clinton as the sentencing county, but it does not mean the person remains physically in Clinton County.

Medical and Mental-Health Standards

The sheriff's corrections page states the jail has medical and mental-health staff. Ohio Administrative Code 5120:1-8-09 requires full-service jails to provide a daily procedure for inmates to report medical and mental-health requests, with urgent matters communicated immediately to the appropriate medical or mental-health department. The same rule requires a grievance system for medical and mental-health treatment established by the health authority.

Other Ohio full-service jail standards cover security, classification, sanitation, clothing, bedding, showers, fire safety, inspections, maintenance, and physical-plant conditions. Those standards do not make the public roster a medical or classification record. Family members with urgent medical concerns should call the jail directly rather than trying to infer need or placement from the online roster.

Directions and Visitor Planning

The jail and Sheriff's Office share the Davids Drive address in Wilmington. Visitors should not confuse 1645 Davids Drive with other county offices on Davids Drive or court-related offices associated with South Street. The sheriff's pages reviewed did not publish official turn-by-turn directions, parking rules, public-transit instructions, ADA entrance details, or a list of lobby-prohibited items.

Because visits are video-based, planning should begin online through Securus and then be confirmed with the jail if an on-site visit is intended. Bring valid identification if required by the facility or Securus process, verify visit availability, and do not travel based only on a roster entry. Release, housing status, discipline, medical needs, and transport can affect access.