Search Belmont County Inmate Records

Belmont County Jail Roster Overview

The official Belmont County Sheriff New Inmate Roster is the main public source for current Belmont County inmate records. It is free, public, and does not require an account. The roster is a current report with a run date and time, male and female sections, embedded booking photos, charge rows, court names, dispositions, bail fields, book dates, arresting agencies, and release dates when shown. It does not provide a search box, date filter, profile link, facility filter, export option, or payment gate.

The sheriff roster covers local jail custody at Belmont County Jail. It does not cover sentenced state prisoners housed at Belmont Correctional Institution and Camp unless they are temporarily in county jail custody, and it does not replace BOP or ICE tools for federal or immigration custody. People booked by municipal and township police can still appear on the county roster because those agencies use the Belmont County Jail for local detention.

Use the Belmont County Inmate Roster

The practical search method is simple but manual. Open the sheriff roster, check the run date, and use the browser's find tool to search the page text. Spelling matters. If a name has a suffix, middle name, hyphen, or alternate spelling, search shorter parts of the name. If there is still no match, the person may have been released, transferred, booked under a variant name, or held in a different system.

1. Open the official sheriff current inmate roster.
2. Check the run date/time because the report is a point-in-time custody list.
3. Use browser find for a last name, first name, jail ID, arresting agency, court, or charge text.
4. Read each charge row and subfield for court, disposition, total bail, book date, next court date, arresting agency, and release date.
5. Call Belmont County Jail at 740-695-5124 when a person should be in custody but is not on the report.

The sheriff roster page itself shows the report-style layout. The screenshot below captures the public roster format used for Belmont County inmate records.

Because the roster has no form fields, a missing result should trigger the fallback chain instead of repeated searches.

Belmont County Roster Fields

The roster's "search fields" are really report fields. They are not input boxes. They are the labels and captions a reader can search with browser find after the report loads.

What Belmont County Records Show

A Belmont County inmate record on the current roster is not a full jail file. It is a public custody row. The record is useful for confirming current jail status, court routing, charge text, bail information, and booking photo availability. It does not show birth date, address, medical status, classification score, housing unit, property inventory, fingerprints, or cell assignment.

Belmont County Jail Facilities

Belmont County inmate records are often confused because two detention facilities sit in or near St. Clairsville. The county jail and the state prison have different agencies, phone numbers, populations, and lookup systems.

County State Federal Inmates

Use the county roster for people in Belmont County Jail after local arrest, local sentence, or a hold. Use ODRC Offender Search for sentenced Ohio prisoners, released offenders, APA supervision, and parole violators. Use the BOP locator for federal prisoners and ICE Online Detainee Locator for immigration detention. Use Ohio VINELink for notification after confirming the correct custody system.

Booking Process in Belmont County

Belmont County booking usually starts with arrest or commitment by the sheriff, a municipal police department, township police, or another agency. The person is transported to the Belmont County Jail unless another authority controls custody. The jail creates or uses a Jail ID, takes or associates a booking photo, records charges and court routing, and posts public roster fields when the person appears on the current report.

The public roster does not show every intake step. Medical and classification records are internal. The jail page does state that medical staff are available around the clock, with nine nurses and a 24-hour on-call medical director physician. Serious medical issues are handled by the jail physician and local hospital emergency-room facilities. Court routing then depends on the charge, prosecutor review, and whether the case belongs in a divisional court, Common Pleas Court, Juvenile Court, Adult Parole Authority, or another court.

Belmont County Visitation Records

Visitation is a separate jail-service issue, not a custody lookup field. Belmont County Jail uses appointment handling and video visitation through ICSolutions. The ICSolutions Belmont page says visitors must register at no cost to participate in a video session and can use the ICSolutions website or supported mobile access. The jail information material says appointments begin Monday morning at 6:00 a.m.; because the full in-person schedule was not fully extracted from official PDFs, call the jail before traveling.

The ICSolutions Belmont visitor page provides the video-visitation registration route for the sheriff facility.

Confirm custody first. A visit cannot be scheduled for someone who has been released, moved to ODRC custody, or held by another agency at a different site.

Mail Phone and Money

Belmont County Jail mail uses TextBehind. Handwritten letters go to the TextBehind processing address, not directly to Hammond Road. The envelope must include the sender's full first and last name, full return address, inmate's full first and last name, inmate Jail ID number, and the full institution name Belmont County Jail. Initials and abbreviations are not accepted. The address format is: Inmate First / Last Name and Inmate Jail ID Number, Belmont County Jail, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131.

Incoming calls or messages to inmates are not accepted. Inmates can use phones during the day, and disciplinary confinement can limit calls. For prepaid account help, the jail page directs users to I.C. Solutions at 1-888-506-8407 or the provider website. Deposit vendor details and exact commissary fees were not fully confirmed in the official sources reviewed, so call the jail before mailing money or relying on a lobby kiosk, money order, or online provider.

Request Belmont County Inmate Records

For records that do not appear on the current roster, use the Belmont County Sheriff's Office public-records request page. The form covers incident reports, incident reports with photographs, crash reports, crash reports with photographs, and other records. It also asks how the requester wants information returned, including email, black-and-white copies, color copies, CD/DVD, USB flash drive, mail, or postage-paid envelope.