W.O.R.T.H. Center Overview
The W.O.R.T.H. Center is the Western Ohio Regional Treatment and Habilitation Center. It is a Community Based Correctional Facility, often shortened to CBCF, in Lima. A CBCF is a residential correctional treatment setting used as an alternative to prison for eligible felony offenders. It is not the Allen County Jail, and it should not be described as the main place to check for new Allen County bookings, mugshots, or bond amounts.
The official W.O.R.T.H. Center site says it serves Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, Putnam, Shelby, Paulding, and Van Wert counties. Its role is regional. A resident may have been sentenced or placed through a court outside Allen County while living at the Lima facility. That is why W.O.R.T.H. Center lookups rely on court records, probation or community-control context, and facility contact rather than the sheriff's active inmate inquiry.
The official W.O.R.T.H. Center home page identifies the facility, treatment mission, capacity, accreditation, and regional county service area.
The facility source is the best match for this page because the county jail roster is not the primary record for W.O.R.T.H. Center residency.
W.O.R.T.H. Center Capacity
The W.O.R.T.H. Center publishes its own resident capacity. The official site states that the center houses 106 residents, with 72 male residents and 34 female residents. That is the sourced population structure for the facility. It is different from the Allen County Jail capacity because W.O.R.T.H. Center is not a jail housing unit and not a sheriff-run booking facility.
The resident count should also be understood by program type. The facility is a court-used residential treatment center, not a public current-custody roster. A person may be listed in court records as sentenced to or placed in a CBCF, but the online jail roster is not the best proof that the person is currently at W.O.R.T.H. Center. Facility contact and the sentencing court are the stronger channels.
Lookup W.O.R.T.H. Center Placement
Do not use the Allen County Jail roster as the primary W.O.R.T.H. Center lookup. The jail roster is built for sheriff jail bookings and current county jail custody. W.O.R.T.H. Center placement is usually tied to sentencing, probation, community control, or a court order. For an Allen County case, begin with the relevant court case record, then contact the facility if public information is not enough.
- Identify the county and court that placed the person. W.O.R.T.H. Center serves several counties, so Allen County is not always the sentencing county.
- Search the relevant court record for sentencing, community-control, probation, or CBCF placement language.
- Contact W.O.R.T.H. Center at 419-222-3339 for facility-level public contact questions that the court record does not answer.
- Use the sheriff jail roster only if the question is whether the person was booked into Allen County Jail before or after placement.
For Allen County criminal cases, the Allen County Clerk of Courts and CourtView/eServices channels help show Common Pleas case activity. Lima Municipal Court may be relevant for municipal misdemeanor and traffic matters, but CBCF placement is most often tied to felony sentencing or community-control supervision.
W.O.R.T.H. Center Contact
Public contact for W.O.R.T.H. Center goes through the facility, not the Allen County Sheriff's Booking Desk. The official site gives a physical street address in Lima, a mailing P.O. Box, the main phone number, and a fax number. The ODRC CBCF directory also identifies the center in the community-based correctional facility network.
W.O.R.T.H. Center
243 E. Bluelick Road
Lima, OH 45801
419-222-3339
Fax: 419-222-4410
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 5305
Lima, OH 45802
419-222-3339
Use facility instructions for resident mail routing.
W.O.R.T.H. Center Visits
The research file did not locate a complete public W.O.R.T.H. Center day-by-day visitation schedule comparable to the Allen County Jail video visitation table. Because the facility is a treatment-centered CBCF, visit access may depend on program status, resident rules, approval, and security needs. The accurate public instruction is to contact W.O.R.T.H. Center directly before travel and to follow facility-specific rules for identification, dress, schedule, and visitor approval.
Do not borrow Allen County Jail visitation rules for W.O.R.T.H. Center residents. Jail video visitation, InmateCanteen charges, and bond-window details belong to the sheriff's jail. W.O.R.T.H. Center has its own residential treatment structure. If a court order or probation officer limits contact, that order controls even if a normal visitor policy would otherwise allow a visit.
| Visit Question | Source to Use | What to Confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Current visit eligibility | W.O.R.T.H. Center | Resident status, approved visitor rules, and schedule |
| Court contact limits | Sentencing or supervision record | No-contact orders, supervision terms, or treatment restrictions |
| Travel timing | Facility phone line | Current entrance, ID rules, and whether visits are active that day |
W.O.R.T.H. Center Mail
The research file confirms the W.O.R.T.H. Center physical address and mailing P.O. Box, but it does not document a public commissary vendor, deposit fee table, phone vendor, or video-visit fee schedule for residents. That means the page should not import Allen County Jail's InmateCanteen, Securus, or TurnKey rules into W.O.R.T.H. Center content. Those vendors were documented for the county jail, not for this CBCF.
Use the center's main phone line for current mail, package, money, property, and resident communication rules. If the resident is under supervision, the sentencing court or probation officer may also be able to confirm whether contact or mail restrictions apply. Do not send funds or packages until the facility has confirmed the accepted method.
| Service | Documented Detail | Fee Status |
|---|---|---|
| Mailing address | P.O. Box 5305, Lima, OH 45802 | No public fee documented |
| Money deposits | Confirm directly with W.O.R.T.H. Center | No fee schedule documented in research |
| Phone or video contact | Confirm directly with W.O.R.T.H. Center | No vendor pricing documented in research |
W.O.R.T.H. Center Programs
The W.O.R.T.H. Center's public identity is built around treatment and habilitation. Its official site describes a philosophy of giving residents the opportunity to change old behaviors and create new prosocial behaviors. It lists cognitive behavioral therapy, mental-health counseling, community support, reentry, and workforce-readiness material. Those program details matter because they explain why a person may be placed there instead of sent straight to prison.
The facility also describes accreditation by the American Correctional Association, the Bureau of Community Sanctions, and PREA. The site highlights the 2024 Clifford Skeen Award from ODRC and notes that it had been thirty years since the center last received the award. Leadership named in the research includes Executive Director Brent Burk and Deputy Director Lorrie Wilson, who oversees Security and Treatment Departments, Education, and Aftercare staff. Those sources support a treatment-focused page, not a mugshot or bond page.
- CBCF
- A Community Based Correctional Facility, a residential correctional treatment option used by courts as an alternative to prison.
- Community control
- Ohio's term for court supervision in the community, often with conditions that can include treatment or residential placement.
- Resident
- The W.O.R.T.H. Center's context uses resident language because placement is program-based, not a fresh booking into county jail.
W.O.R.T.H. Center Records
W.O.R.T.H. Center records should be checked in context. A person arrested in Allen County may first appear on the Allen County Jail roster, then later appear in court records if a judge orders community-control sanctions or a CBCF placement. A person from another served county may never have an Allen County jail booking at all. The facility's Lima address does not mean Allen County is always the county of commitment.
The regional service area is a key record clue. The official center source lists Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, Putnam, Shelby, Paulding, and Van Wert counties, so a resident lookup can start in one county's court file and end with a Lima residential placement. The research also identifies the center as nationally and state accredited, with treatment, security, education, aftercare, reentry, and workforce-readiness roles. Those details point to a placement record rather than a booking record. When a court entry uses terms such as CBCF, community control, residential treatment, or W.O.R.T.H. Center, the next step is to check that sentencing court and then confirm public facility rules with the center.
If the person has instead been sentenced to prison, use ODRC Offender Search and not W.O.R.T.H. Center contact as the primary custody lookup. If the person is in Allen County Jail on a new arrest, use the sheriff roster and Booking Desk. The record path follows the custody type: jail booking, CBCF placement, or state prison custody.
Note: Confirm resident status and visit rules with W.O.R.T.H. Center before travel because public jail roster data is not the primary source.