Find Lorain/Medina CBCF Residents

Lorain/Medina CBCF Overview

The Lorain/Medina Community Based Correctional Facility is a 130-bed Community Based Correctional Facility in Elyria. The official ODRC CBCF directory lists the facility at 9892 Murray Ridge Road, Elyria, OH 44035, with phone 440-281-9708 and fax 440-281-9713. It is included in the Medina County facility map because it serves Medina County courts, even though the building is physically in Lorain County.

A CBCF is not the Medina County Jail. It is also not a normal ODRC prison. It is a secure residential correctional placement for adult felony offenders who are ordered there by Lorain or Medina County courts as an alternative to prison or as part of sentencing and community-control programming. That distinction affects lookup, visitation, money, and release questions. The jail roster may not show someone after placement in CBCF, and ODRC Offender Search may not show a CBCF resident unless the person later enters state prison or supervision records.

Medina County custody can move in stages. A person may be arrested and booked into Medina County Jail, appear in Municipal Court or Common Pleas Court, receive bond or a sentencing order, and later enter CBCF. Court records are often the strongest source for the placement order because the court controls the community-corrections sentence or sanction. For jail booking detail, use the adult sheriff roster. For formal placement, check the court case record and then contact CBCF.

Lorain/Medina CBCF Capacity

The research gives one official capacity figure for this facility: 130 beds. That number comes from the CBCF official site and the ODRC CBCF directory context. Unlike the Medina County Jail, the research did not locate a current inspection-day population count for CBCF. The page should not invent a current resident count or average daily population for this facility.

Look Up CBCF Placement

There is no research finding that CBCF residents appear in the Medina County Sheriff's adult inmate roster after placement. The correct lookup path starts with the court case that ordered the placement. For Medina County felony cases, the Medina County Clerk of Courts and the county's official case access routes are the local court-record channels. The CBCF office can then confirm facility-specific information that staff may lawfully release.

1. Search the Medina County court record by defendant name or case number to confirm a CBCF placement order.
2. Call Lorain/Medina CBCF at 440-281-9708 for facility-specific resident information that can be released.
3. If the person was recently arrested, search the Medina County Jail roster first to see whether they are still in local custody.
4. If the person was sentenced to state prison instead of CBCF, use the ODRC Offender Search.
5. Use Ohio VINE as a notification supplement, not as the only official source for placement or release status.

The Medina County court records after jail arrest page explains why booking charges, filed charges, sentencing, and placement may not match the first jail roster entry. CBCF placement usually makes more sense when read from the sentencing docket than from the booking record alone.

Lorain/Medina CBCF Contact

The ODRC CBCF directory is the most precise contact source in the research. Use the facility office for resident-specific questions, program rules, and current arrival or visit instructions. Because the facility serves two counties, callers should be ready with the resident's full name, date of birth if known, and the Medina County court case number or sentencing court when available.

CBCF Phone and Commissary

The official CBCF telephone and commissary page says resident phones are located in dayroom areas and are outgoing only. The published phone hours are 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. The research did not confirm a complete commissary fee schedule, deposit vendor, or current video-visitation vendor from an official page that loaded successfully during capture, so those details should be verified directly with CBCF before money is sent.

Lorain/Medina CBCF Visits

The research did not locate a full official CBCF visitation schedule that could be safely copied into a day-by-day table. Because CBCF rules can depend on program status, discipline, approved visitor lists, and current facility policy, direct confirmation is the right path. The facility page should not borrow Medina County Jail video visit rules or the Juvenile Detention Center parent visit schedule.

CBCF Records and Court Path

CBCF placement is most often explained by court records. A Medina County defendant may start in the jail roster, but the legal reason for CBCF placement appears in the criminal case docket or sentencing entry. The Clerk Criminal Division research says felony prosecutions in Common Pleas can begin by indictment or bill of information, and the prosecutor's charging decisions can change the case after booking. That is why a CBCF lookup should include both custody and court sources.

If the person is no longer in CBCF and later enters an Ohio prison, the statewide ODRC locator is the better search tool. If the person is in federal or immigration custody, BOP or ICE systems apply. If the person is still in the adult county jail, the sheriff CentralSquare portal remains the current custody source. Each system covers a different legal status.

CBCF

Secure community-corrections placement ordered by a court as an alternative to prison or part of community control.

Community control

An Ohio sentencing option that can include conditions, supervision, treatment, or residential placement.

ODRC

Ohio's state prison and supervision agency, used after a state prison sentence or qualifying supervision status.