WORTH Center Resident Lookup and Facility Information

WORTH Center Overview

The WORTH Center is the Western Ohio Regional Treatment and Habilitation Center in Lima, Ohio. The official site describes it as a Community Based Correctional Facility and an alternative to the penal system. It serves Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, Putnam, Shelby, Paulding, and Van Wert counties. Because Van Wert County is one of the counties served, WORTH belongs in the Van Wert facility map, but it is not the same kind of facility as the Van Wert County Correctional Facility.

The distinction is important for people trying to find someone. A person in the Van Wert County jail population may appear through the sheriff app if currently held locally. A person placed at WORTH is in a residential treatment and community-corrections setting, usually tied to a court order or supervision plan. WORTH does not publish, in the captured official material, a public jail-style roster with booking photographs, arrest charges, bond amounts, or ordinary county jail housing details.

The official WORTH Center website identifies the facility's role, counties served, capacity, accreditation, leadership, and program focus.

This image anchors the WORTH page to the facility's own published description, which is treatment and community corrections rather than a county jail roster or booking-photo system.

WORTH Center Address and Contact

The WORTH Center is outside Van Wert County, in Lima, but official WORTH material names Van Wert as one of the counties it serves. Use WORTH contact information for facility-specific resident or program questions. Use the sentencing court, attorney, probation office, or community-corrections contact for legal status, placement authority, or release-condition questions.

Capacity, Resident Makeup, and Counties Served

The WORTH Center's own published capacity is 106 residents. The facility reports a split of 72 male residents and 34 female residents. Those are WORTH Center resident-capacity figures and should not be mixed with the Van Wert County jail's 82-bed capacity or the ODRC inspection-day jail count. WORTH serves a regional court and community-corrections population rather than only people booked into the Van Wert County jail.

The counties served are Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, Putnam, Shelby, Paulding, and Van Wert. A Van Wert County resident or defendant may be connected to WORTH through a court or community-corrections outcome, but the research does not support saying that every Van Wert County jail inmate can be searched through WORTH or that WORTH residents are listed in the sheriff app.

How to Confirm a WORTH Center Placement

Do not begin with the Van Wert County Sheriff OH app unless the question is whether the person is separately in the county jail. WORTH is not the local jail roster. Placement is better confirmed through the court case, probation or community-corrections contact, the person's attorney, or WORTH itself. If the person was recently arrested and has not been sentenced or placed, start with the county jail. If a court has ordered residential treatment or community corrections, then WORTH may be relevant.

1. Identify the court case and county involved. Van Wert County matters may involve Municipal Court, Common Pleas Court, probation, or a felony prosecution path.
2. Check court records for disposition, sentencing, bond, community-control, or placement language instead of looking for a jail booking roster entry.
3. Contact the attorney, probation officer, or Van Wert County Adult Probation at 419-238-2825 when the case is a Common Pleas probation or placement matter.
4. Call WORTH Center at 419-222-3339 for facility-specific questions that the facility can answer.
5. If the person may have moved to state prison after sentencing, use Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Offender Search instead of the county app or WORTH contact path.

Why WORTH Is Not a Jail Roster Facility

WORTH is listed as a Community Based Correctional Facility. Its official philosophy is rehabilitative: helping residents change old behaviors and create new prosocial behaviors. The facility is connected to courts and community sanctions, but the public source does not present WORTH as a place where the public searches new arrests, current booking charges, bond amounts, or county jail mugshots.

This differs from the Van Wert County Correctional Facility at 204 N. Washington Street. The county jail holds adult pretrial detainees, local sentence inmates, people awaiting court action, and local holds. The sheriff app is the official path for current inmates and active warrants. WORTH residents, by contrast, are in a structured treatment and habilitation setting. A person could be in Van Wert County jail before a court decision, later placed at WORTH, or never go to WORTH at all.

For that reason, record questions should be separated. Use jail channels for current local custody. Use court records for the order that created the WORTH placement. Use WORTH contact information for facility and program questions. Use ODRC Offender Search for sentenced state-prison custody.

Programs, Treatment, and Accreditation

The WORTH Center's official program focus is much broader than a normal jail custody page. Research identifies cognitive behavioral therapy, mental-health counseling, community support, clinical services, workforce preparation, aftercare, and reentry or workforce readiness. Those programs fit the facility's role as a residential treatment and community-corrections option rather than a place designed only for short-term booking and detention.

The official site describes WORTH as nationally and state accredited, including ACA, Bureau of Community Sanctions, and PREA. It also reports that WORTH won the 2024 Clifford Skeen Award from ODRC. The research names Brent Burk as Executive Director and Lorrie Wilson as Deputy Director. These leadership and accreditation details are relevant to facility identity, but they do not create a public resident roster or guarantee that the facility will confirm protected resident information to any caller.

Visitation, Mail, and Resident Contact

The research captured the WORTH Center homepage and broad resident/program navigation, but it did not capture a detailed public schedule for visitation, mail, commissary, resident property, phone accounts, video visits, package rules, or approved-contact procedures. Do not borrow the Van Wert County jail visitation schedule for WORTH. The jail's Thursday and Saturday visitation times belong to the Van Wert County Correctional Facility, not to WORTH.

For WORTH resident contact questions, call 419-222-3339 and ask for the current rules. If the person is involved in a Van Wert County case, the court order or probation conditions may control who may visit, contact limits, transportation, release planning, or program completion requirements. The public sources reviewed do not provide enough detail to state WORTH visiting hours or mailing format with confidence.

Court Records, Probation, and Public-Records Fallbacks

For a Van Wert County case, WORTH placement usually makes sense only after reading the court record or speaking with the supervising authority. Van Wert Municipal Court records may be relevant for lower-court matters, while Common Pleas Court and the Clerk CourtView records are relevant for felony criminal cases. The Van Wert Common Pleas page routes court filings, filing fees, and case status to the Clerk of Courts at 419-238-1022. It routes probation, pretrial release, and bond questions to Van Wert County Adult Probation at 419-238-2825.

The Van Wert County CourtView eServices portal is the local Clerk/Common Pleas route documented in the research for felony and common-pleas record lookup. CourtView is a case-record path, not a WORTH resident roster.

Ohio public-records law can help with court and sheriff records, but it does not turn WORTH into a public jail roster. The sheriff's public-records process is useful for Van Wert County booking records, incident reports, or jail documents held by the sheriff's office. Court records are the better source for orders, sentences, bond entries, community-control terms, and placement language. A direct WORTH call is the facility fallback for resident-program questions.

If a person left WORTH and entered state prison, search the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Offender Search by name, offender number, status, or county of commitment. If a person is in federal custody, use the BOP locator for sentenced federal inmates or federal court and U.S. Marshals channels for pretrial federal custody. ICE detention uses ICE's Online Detainee Locator, not WORTH or the county app.

WORTH Center Compared With Van Wert County Jail

Many lookup mistakes come from treating all custody-related facilities as the same. WORTH Center and the Van Wert County Correctional Facility serve different functions. The county jail is where new local arrests, pretrial custody, local sentences, and holds are handled under the sheriff. WORTH is a regional residential treatment and community-corrections facility serving multiple counties. Both can be relevant to a Van Wert County case, but they answer different questions.