United States · Ohio · St. Clairsville
Sargus Juvenile Detention Center
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Sargus Juvenile Detention Center is a county jail located in Belmont County, Ohio. Rated capacity: 17. Reported population: 15. Security level: Juvenile. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Sargus Juvenile Detention Center is one of seven juvenile detention centers in the U.S. state of Ohio. Named after Judge Edmund A. Sargus, a former juvenile court judge of Belmont County, it is located just outside St. Clairsville, Ohio. The rated bed capacity is 17, but up to 24 youths are detained in the facility on any given day. It was established in 1973.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
17
Current population
15
Occupancy
88%
Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
juvenile-mixed
Opened
—
Region
Ohio
Security level
Juvenile
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
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- Northwest Ohio Juvenile Detention CenterStrykerJuvenileCounty jail113% occupancy
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7423981)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Sargus Juvenile Detention Center. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sargus-juvenile-detention-center
"Sargus Juvenile Detention Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/sargus-juvenile-detention-center.
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title = {Sargus Juvenile Detention Center},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-10-21}
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