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Belmont County Jail Overview

Belmont County Jail is operated by the Belmont County Sheriff's Office at the sheriff's Hammond Road complex in St. Clairsville. The sheriff's jail page describes it as a 144-bed full-service jail able to house 120 male prisoners and 24 female prisoners. The jail serves the sheriff's office, municipal and township police departments countywide, and other federal agencies when a local hold or housing arrangement exists.

The jail holds adult pretrial detainees, people awaiting trial, people awaiting sentencing, local sentenced inmates, people awaiting transfer to an Ohio state institution, fugitives awaiting return to another state, and probation or parole revocation holds. It is operated under the direction of Chief Deputy of Jail Administration Stanley Galownia. Sheriff James G. Zusack's office lists the same Hammond Road address for the sheriff's office and jail.

Belmont County Jail Capacity

The sheriff and ODRC use slightly different capacity terms, and both are useful. The sheriff page gives the public-facing bed count of 144 beds. The ODRC 2025 annual inspection reported 146 actual general housing capacity, 144 recommended housing capacity, and 95 incarcerated persons on the August 27, 2025 inspection date. ODRC found the jail met compliant-jail requirements, with two lighting-related important standards not met.

Look Up Belmont County Jail Inmates

Lookup for this facility uses the Belmont County Sheriff current roster. It is not a search form. It is a printable report grouped by male and female sections. Use browser find to search for a name, then read the Jail ID, photo, charge, court, current disposition, total bail, book date, arresting agency, and release date fields.

1. Open the sheriff roster and check the report run date/time.
2. Use browser find for the person's name or another visible field.
3. Confirm the match by court, charge, book date, and arresting agency.
4. Call 740-695-5124 if the person is missing or may have been released or transferred.
5. Use ODRC Offender Search instead if the person has moved to state prison custody.

Belmont County Jail Contact

Use the jail phone for custody, visit appointment, bond-company, and facility-service questions. Use the sheriff's main number for broader sheriff office business, records routing, civil/warrant division questions, or non-emergency contact.

Visiting Belmont County Jail

Belmont County Jail visits are appointment-based and video visitation is handled through ICSolutions. The ICSolutions Belmont page says visitors must register at no cost before participating in a video visitation session. Jail information materials say appointment-taking begins Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. Because the full in-person schedule was not fully extracted from the official PDF, visitors should call the jail before traveling.

Mail Phone and Money

General jail mail uses TextBehind. Letters must include the sender's complete first and last name, full return address, inmate's complete first and last name, inmate Jail ID number, and the full institution name. Handwritten letters go to: Inmate First / Last Name and Inmate Jail ID Number, Belmont County Jail, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131. Sending mail straight to Hammond Road can delay or misroute general inmate letters.

Inmates cannot receive incoming calls or phone messages. They have access to telephones during the day, with limits for disciplinary confinement. For a family medical emergency, callers can ask for the shift supervisor, who may verify the emergency and allow a special outgoing phone privilege. Deposit vendor details and exact commissary fees were not confirmed in the official research, so verify money rules with the jail before sending funds.

Booking at Belmont County Jail

Booking records at Belmont County Jail can begin with arrests by the sheriff, municipal police, township police, or another agency. The public roster shows arresting agencies from across Belmont County. A row can include Jail ID, booking photo, name, charges, court, disposition, total bail, SID number, book date, attorney, next court date, arresting agency, and release date.

Medical and classification details are not public roster fields. The sheriff jail page does provide a local medical-services detail: minor emergencies can be handled in-house with round-the-clock medical staff coverage consisting of nine nurses and a 24-hour on-call medical director physician, while serious medical issues use the jail physician and local hospital emergency-room facilities.

Bond and Work Release

Belmont County Jail says cash bond requires the full amount in cash only and exact change. Surety bond can involve a bonding company, and the approved bonding-company list can be obtained by calling the jail. The jail also lists a one-time $3.00 non-refundable fee and a state-mandated $25.00 bond fee. A hold for another agency, fugitive matter, parole violation, or other detainer can block release even when a local bail value appears on the roster.

People sentenced to weekends or work release should contact the Inmate Support Officer at 740-695-7933 ext. 155 as soon as sentenced, ideally a week before reporting. Work release does not start until paperwork is complete and employment is verified. The jail page says everyone on work release is subject to random drug testing at the inmate's expense.

Belmont County Jail Conditions

The 2025 ODRC inspection reviewed reception and release, classification, security, housing, sanitation and environmental conditions, communication, visitation, medical and mental-health services, food service, recreation and programming, discipline, segregation, grievance, staffing, and training. ODRC reported compliance with 178 standards, including 53 essential and 125 important standards, and found the jail met compliant-jail requirements.