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Cuyahoga County Jail Roster

Cuyahoga County does not publish a normal browser-based jail roster search with a last-name box on the sheriff website. The official Cuyahoga County inmate information page directs the public to the Cuyahoga County Sheriff OH app for daily jail rosters, push alerts, news, and commissary information. That makes the app the county's public roster channel for current Cuyahoga County Corrections Center custody.

The roster covers county jail custody, not every person with a Cuyahoga County criminal case. People may be held at the Corrections Center or at sheriff-used satellite locations, and a new booking may not appear in the app at once. Sheriff Harold A. Pretel's department also publishes booking desk numbers for real-time custody questions. Sentenced Ohio prison inmates, federal prisoners, immigration detainees, and people under Ohio VINE notifications require separate lookups.

Use the Sheriff App

The app route begins from the county inmate information page or the Cuyahoga County Sheriff OH Google Play listing. The county links app-store icons from its own page, and the Google Play listing identifies OCV, LLC as publisher. The official county text says the app includes daily jail rosters. It should be treated as an app-first roster, not as proof that the county website has a separate web database.

1. Open the official county inmate information page and use the app store link for the Cuyahoga County Sheriff app.
2. In the app, open the jail roster, inmates, or jail information feature. Start with the person's full legal name.
3. Compare age, race, gender, booking date, listed charges, and any photo when common names return more than one result.
4. If the app does not show the person, call the booking desk because new arrests, releases, and satellite housing can lag the roster.
5. If the person has been sentenced to prison or moved into federal or immigration custody, switch to the correct state or federal locator.

The app listing also describes public safety news, tip submission, and other interactive features. Those app tools are not emergency tools. The listing says to call 911 in an emergency, and custody or bond questions should go through the booking desk or court docket when the app result is unclear.

The county roster route is shown on the official inmate information page.

Source: Cuyahoga County inmate information

The same source is also where the county lists booking desk numbers and the current mail procedure for people in custody.

Cuyahoga Roster Fields

The exact in-app field labels were not visible from a browser during research. The table below keeps that limitation clear and uses only the fields documented by the county page, app listing, and high-authority reporting described in the research. Treat app fields as identifiers to narrow a match. They are not a conviction record.

Cuyahoga Inmate Profile Details

A current Cuyahoga County inmate record can combine jail intake facts with fields later refined in court. Booking charges are an intake snapshot. The Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts Case Records Search System is the better source for filed felony charges, case number, bond orders, docket events, and later disposition. The booking desk remains the fallback when a roster entry is missing or a housing location is unclear.

Cuyahoga Custody Fallbacks

The booking desk is the strongest fallback for current Cuyahoga County jail custody. The official numbers are 216-698-4820, 216-515-8348, and 216-698-6430. The Corrections Center is at 1215 W. 3rd St., Cleveland, OH 44113. The sheriff's general number is 216-443-6000, and the Records/Warrant Division number is 216-443-6100. The county inmate information page says prisoner drop-off and pick-up hours are 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., while county-warrant prisoners are booked at any time. That booking rule does not mean every public counter is open around the clock.

For older booking records, mugshots no longer visible in the app, or jail records that are not app fields, use the Cuyahoga County public-records request page or the Matrix public records portal. County research notes that there is no fee to file a public-records request. Copy or media fees may apply under county code and Ohio public-records law.

Jail, Prison, Federal Custody

Cuyahoga County inmate records split by custody type. The sheriff app and booking desk are for pretrial detainees, county-sentenced inmates, people booked on county warrants, and people housed at sheriff-used satellite locations. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Offender Search covers people incarcerated in Ohio prisons, released offenders, Adult Parole Authority supervision, judicial releases, and violators at large. It is the correct path for someone at Northeast Reintegration Center or anyone sentenced from Cuyahoga County to ODRC custody.

No federal Bureau of Prisons institution or long-term ICE detention center was located inside Cuyahoga County during official source checks. A person arrested locally on a federal or immigration matter may move outside the county jail system, so a missing sheriff app result does not rule out federal or immigration custody.

Cuyahoga Booking Intake

Booking at the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center begins after arrest, warrant pickup, or court remand. The person may arrive from a city police department, sheriff deputy, state officer, or partner agency. Intake normally includes identity confirmation, property handling, booking paperwork, a booking photo, fingerprints, medical and mental-health screening, classification, and housing. The official CCCC general information page says MetroHealth provides all medical and mental-health care at the facility.

The county's public pages do not publish a full intake checklist or an app field manual. Research also notes that the 2025 Clay settlement site-visit report described health-care access signage in booking and intake areas, mental-health reception policies, grievance options on Securus kiosks, and inmate handbook access on kiosks and paper. Those details matter because a roster delay can occur while intake, classification, court paperwork, or release processing is still in motion.

Cuyahoga Jail Visitation

The official Cuyahoga County visitation page lists on-site video, remote video, behind-glass in-person visitation, and attorney visit options. Video visitors must use Securus registration. Behind-glass in-person visits require an application and background check, and the county currently limits those visits to people sentenced to the county jail for 90 days or longer and the juvenile population. Minor-child rules and visitor screening rules are handled through county forms and the visitor handbook.

Personal belongings must be secured before an in-person visit. The visitor handbook describes lockers outside access and lists a $1.00 credit-card fee. Confirm current building access before leaving for downtown Cleveland because the Justice Center area can be affected by court schedules, closures, construction, and special-event traffic.

Mail, Calls, Money

Cuyahoga County changed personal inmate mail rules on June 15, 2024. Personal mail is no longer accepted at the Cleveland jail building. It must be sent to Cuyahoga, OH County Jail, C/O Securus Digital Mail Center, PO Box 20407, Tampa, FL 33622. Mail is scanned and made available on kiosks or tablets. Legal mail and publications follow separate direct-to-facility rules, packages and certified mail are returned, money orders are no longer accepted, and physical mail is destroyed 60 days after upload.

Phones are daily coinless collect phones. Inmates can buy prepaid calling cards from commissary, and friends or family can set up Securus advance connect accounts. For funds, the county commissary page says to use Access Corrections, and the county package service uses Access Catalog or Access Securepak. Research did not capture a current official Access Corrections fee table, so deposit limits and vendor charges should be confirmed before sending money.