Erie County Detention Center Overview
The Erie County Detention Center is listed under the Erie County Juvenile Justice Center. Its official county page places it at 1338 Tiffin Avenue in Sandusky and lists the phone number as (419) 627-7611 and fax number as (419) 627-6672. The officials named in the research are Robert Wikel, Superintendent of Corrections, and Brenda Wainwright, Director.
This facility should be kept separate from the Erie County Jail at 2800 Columbus Avenue. The jail is sheriff-operated adult custody and uses the public JDS roster. The Detention Center is a juvenile facility, so no public adult inmate roster, adult booking-photo gallery, adult bond-payment procedure, or adult commissary promise should be attached to it. The research did not locate an official public juvenile detention roster for this facility.
People often reach this page while trying to locate someone after an Erie County arrest. If the person is an adult, the practical path is the Erie County Jail roster and Jail Division phone. If the matter involves a juvenile, access may depend on legal relationship, court status, confidentiality rules, and what the Juvenile Justice Center can lawfully disclose.
The image below comes from the official Erie County Detention Center page.
The county page is useful for facility identity and contact details, but it does not function as a public juvenile roster.
Who Is Held at Erie County Detention Center
The facility map identifies this location as youth held through the Erie County Juvenile Justice Center. It is part of the juvenile detention and juvenile corrections campus rather than the adult jail population. The research did not locate a published capacity, inspection-day population, demographic breakdown, public roster, or routine release list for this facility in the official sources reviewed.
That absence matters. Adult jail pages can discuss public roster fields such as Jail ID, photo, charges, court, disposition, total bail, book date, next court date, arresting agency, and release date because those fields were captured from the adult JDS roster. Those adult fields should not be carried over to this juvenile facility. Juvenile detention records can be confidential, sealed, or restricted by law and court practice, especially when compared with adult jail booking records.
How to Check Custody Information for Erie County Detention Center
No public online juvenile detention roster was located for Erie County Detention Center. The adult Erie County Jail roster should not be used as proof that a youth is or is not held at this juvenile facility because that roster covers adult county jail custody. For permissible juvenile detention information, contact the Juvenile Justice Center or the appropriate juvenile court channel directly.
- Confirm whether the person is an adult or juvenile. Adult searches should go to Erie County Jail, not this facility.
- For juvenile matters, call the Erie County Juvenile Justice Center contact number and ask what information may be released.
- Have the youth's full legal name, date of birth, case context, and your legal relationship available if disclosure is permitted.
- Do not expect adult roster fields, public mugshots, bail entries, or commissary links from this juvenile detention center.
Adult-search caveat: Adults arrested in Erie County are generally searched through Erie County Jail, ODRC, BOP, or ICE systems, depending on custody status.
Erie County Detention Center Address and Contact
The county's official Detention Center page supplies the facility contact block. Because juvenile detention information may be restricted, phone contact is the most appropriate first step before traveling, mailing items, or assuming visitation access.
Erie County Detention Center
1338 Tiffin Avenue
Sandusky, OH 44870
(419) 627-7611
Fax: (419) 627-6672
Juvenile Justice Center facility
Visiting a Youth at Erie County Detention Center
The research did not locate public visitation hours, a public visitor schedule, or a visitor approval table for Erie County Detention Center. Because the facility serves juveniles, visitation is likely handled through facility rules, parent or guardian status, court orders, and confidentiality limits. Do not rely on the adult Erie County Jail video visitation hours for this facility.
| Topic | What the Research Supports |
|---|---|
| Public schedule | No official public visitation schedule was located in the researched Detention Center materials. |
| Adult jail video visitation | Adult jail video visitation rules apply to Erie County Jail, not this juvenile facility. |
| Best contact path | Call (419) 627-7611 before traveling or attempting a visit. |
Mail, Phone, and Money at Erie County Detention Center
The official research did not locate a public Detention Center mail rule, phone-provider rule, commissary deposit vendor, fee schedule, or money-deposit instruction. Those adult jail topics are documented for Erie County Jail through its FAQ, but they should not be promised for juvenile detention. Call the facility before sending mail, attempting a phone account setup, or trying to deliver property.
| Service | Status for This Juvenile Facility |
|---|---|
| No public facility-specific mail format was located; call first. | |
| Phone | No public juvenile phone-provider details were located. |
| Money or commissary | No public deposit vendor or commissary rules were located for this facility. |
Juvenile Records and Public Access Limits
Ohio's Public Records Act, ORC 149.43, is the broad public-records framework for public offices, but juvenile records are not the same as adult jail booking records. Juvenile files, identifying information, medical information, security information, and sealed records may be withheld or restricted. The research did not locate a public roster or public mugshot pathway for youth at the Detention Center.
For adult arrests in Erie County, the public systems are more visible: the JDS roster for current adult jail inmates, the sheriff's Glyph Reports portal for incident reports, Municipal Court and Clerk systems from the county home page for court records, the ODRC Offender Search for sentenced prison cases, and BOP or ICE locators for federal and immigration custody. Those systems can help when a searcher is unsure whether a case is actually adult custody rather than juvenile detention.
When to Use Erie County Jail Instead
Use Erie County Jail if the person is an adult booked after an arrest, court commitment, bench warrant, probation violation, parole hold, or other-agency hold. The jail roster may show current male and female sections, Jail ID, name, photo column, charges, court, disposition, total bail, book date, next court date, arresting agency, and release date. It can also show holds for agencies such as the Adult Parole Authority, US Marshals, Border Patrol or ICE, and other courts.
Use ODRC when an Erie County adult has been sentenced to Ohio prison or is under state supervision. Use BOP for federal prisoners from 1982 to present. Use ICE locator tools for immigration detention. The Erie County Detention Center should remain the juvenile detention contact point, not an alternate adult inmate search page.
About Erie County Detention Center
The Detention Center's defining facts in the official source are its placement under the Erie County Juvenile Justice Center, its Tiffin Avenue address, its shared Juvenile Justice Center contact number, and the named facility officials. Capacity, public roster fields, a public juvenile visit schedule, and a money-deposit system were not located in official materials reviewed for this build.
The safest reading is narrow: this page supports facility identification and contact routing for the juvenile detention center. It should not be read as an adult jail roster page, a mugshot page, a bond instruction page, or a guarantee that juvenile custody information will be released to every caller.
Confirm first: Call the Juvenile Justice Center before visiting or requesting details because juvenile custody information may be limited by law or court rule.