Ohio Administrative Code

11.15 PDF: (A) (Important) There is a secured visiting area that physically separates the inmate and visitor with capability for two-way, unobscured conversation and/or video visitation.(B) (Important) The visitation area shall be equipped with seating.(C) (Important) Visitors sh…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Essential) Health authority. The jail has a designated health authority with responsibility for health and/or mental health care services pursuant a written agreement, contract or job description. The health authority may be a physician, health administrator or ag…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Essential) There shall be documentation that the food service operation complies with the regulations of the local or state health department.(B) (Essential) Inmates shall be served a minimum of three meals daily at regularly scheduled intervals, not to exceed fou…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Important) The jail shall provide leisure time activities for inmates, which may include, but not limited to: table games, cards, checkers, board games, etc.(B) (Important) The jail shall provide inmates access to reading materials.(C) (Important) The jail shall p…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Important) Written inmate rules will identify prohibited acts and/or conduct, degrees of violations, ranges of penalties and disciplinary hearing and grievance procedures.(B) (Important) There shall be a sanctioning schedule for rule violations.(1) The jail admini…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Important) Rules shall be divided into two distinct categories according to the nature of the violation and the maximum penalty which may be imposed.(1) Minor violations:(a) Minor violations shall include, but are not limited to, acts/conduct, which do not constit…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Important) Each twelve-day jail shall have written policies and procedures that govern the administrative segregation of inmates from the general population.(B) (Important) The use of administrative segregation as a penalty shall be prohibited.(C) (Important) Admi…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Important) Inmate rules shall include a grievance procedure that is available to inmates and includes at least one level of appeal.(B) (Important) Retaliation by staff for inmate grievances is prohibited. Last updated January 4, 2024 at 8:56 AM Authorized By: 5120…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Important) Each jail shall have a designated jail administrator who is qualified by training or experience to supervise and control inmates as outlined in a written job description.(B) (Important) Pre-employment background checks shall be conducted prior to hiring…

11.15 PDF: (A) (Important) Jail support staff with occasional contact shall receive training in pertinent agency policies and procedures prior to or in conjunction with assignment to jail duties.Two hours of in-service training each subsequent year of employment addressing specif…

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour jail facility, as defined in paragraph (A)(3) of rule 5120:1-7-02 of the Administrative Code, shall adhere to following standards regarding the reception and release of prisoners , implement policies and procedures, and produce documentation that evide…

11.15 PDF: (A) Each twelve-hour facility shall maintain the following minimum standards in regard to security of the facility.(1) (Essential) An established security perimeter.(2) (Essential) A secure booking and release area.(3) (Essential) Temporary weapons storage lockers or o…

11.15 PDF: Twelve-hour facilities shall provide prisoners with sufficient space. The facility shall maintain documentation regarding square footage and maximum occupancy figures for all housing and holding areas, and shall comply with the following minimum requirements:(A) (Impor…

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour facility shall maintain the following minimum standards in regard to sanitation and environmental conditions of the facility:(A) (Essential) All areas of a twelve-hour facility will be safe and sanitary, including the food service and laundry areas. St…

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour facility shall abide by the following minimum standards for visitation:(A) (Essential) Establish visitor security controls to prevent contraband from entering the jail.(B) (Essential) Ensure prisoner access to legal counsel of record including telephon…

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour facility shall maintain the following minimum standards in regard to medical policies and procedures:(A) (Essential) Medical policies and procedures will be specifically developed for the facility. A physician, licensed to practice medicine in Ohio, wi…

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour facility shall comply with the following minimum food service standards:(A) (Essential) prisoners will be served a minimum of three meals at regularly scheduled intervals.(B) (Important) All prisoners held during an established mealtime are provided a …

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour facility shall maintain the following minimum standards regarding discipline:(A) (Important) Prisoner rules will specify prohibited acts.(B) (Important) Prisoner rules will specify the fundamental rights that cannot be suspended except in an emergency …

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour facility shall maintain the following minimum standards in regard to grievances:(A) (Important) prisoner rules will include a grievance procedure that is available to prisoners and includes at least one level of appeal.(B) (Important) Retaliation by st…

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour facility shall maintain the following minimum standards for staffing:(A) (Essential) Have a designated jail administrator who is qualified by training or experience to supervise and control prisoners as outlined in a written job description.(B) (Import…

11.15 PDF: Each twelve-hour facility shall maintain the following minimum standards in regard to staff training:(A) (Important) At least one employee per shift, and all others who have been assigned direct responsibility of custody and supervision of prisoners will receive traini…

19.03 PDF: (A) Single county community-based correctional facility and program: A program established by any county within the state of Ohio which has a population of two-hundred thousand residents or more for the purpose of the commitment of felony offenders to a residential fac…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule establishes the minimum eligibility requirements that must be met by participating counties for establishing single county or district community-based correctional facilities and programs.(B) Single county community-based facilities and programs:(1) Any c…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule sets forth the minimum requirements of operation that must be met by each facility governing board.(B) Facilities shall have stated goals and measurable objectives within the proposal submitted to the division of parole and community services. Approved pr…

19.03 PDF: Screening standards shall at a minimum provide for the following:(A) A referral procedure for use by the sentencing court or legal entity for referral or commitment to the facility and program. The referral procedure shall include but is not limited to:(1) A procedure …

19.03 PDF: (A) Application:Applications for state financial assistance to establish, maintain and operate a community-based correctional facility and program shall be submitted to the division of parole and community services of the department of rehabilitation and correction.(B)…

19.03 PDF: (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall provide local facility governing boards with technical assistance upon request.(B) Each proposal for a community-based correctional facility shall set forth all information required by section 2301.52 of the Rev…

19.03 PDF: (A) Participating facility governing boards shall cooperate with and provide any additional information as may be required by the department of rehabilitation and correction in carrying out an ongoing evaluation of community-based correctional facilities and programs t…

19.03 PDF: (A) The Ohio department of rehabilitation and correction ("ODRC") establishes performance-based standards for community-based correctional facilities receiving funding by the department of rehabilitation through the bureau of community sanctions. In accordance with app…

11.15 PDF: (A) Local correctional facility: A county, municipal, municipal-county, multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, a community alternative sentencing center or district community alternative sentencing center, a minimum security jail, or a community-based correctional fa…

11.15 PDF: This rule establishes the requirements that must be met for memorandums of understanding submitted by voluntary counties. The department of rehabilitation and correction shall approve MOUs that meet the following criteria:(A) Set forth plans by which the county will us…

11.15 PDF: (A) There is hereby created within the department a sex offender and child-victim oriented offender treatment program certification advisory board. The board's responsibilities will be to direct the inspection and monitoring of sex offender and child-victim offender tr…

19.03 PDF: (A) General policyThe department of rehabilitation and correction ("department"), through the division of parole and community services ("division"), may enter into the contracts for the housing of specific classes of eligible offenders through licensed public and priv…

19.03 PDF: (A) The division of parole and community services is charged with the inspection, supervision and licensing of facilities in accordance with section 2967.14 of the Revised Code.(B) The division of parole and community services conducts annual on-site inspections of lic…

19.03 PDF: (A) The facility director shall be notified when a program review or monitoring visit will be conducted. (B) Once at the licensed facility, the team conducting the program review or monitoring visit shall meet with the facility director to explain the criteria that wil…

19.03 PDF: As used in rules 5120:1-3-01 to 5120:1-3-18 of the Administrative Code, the following terms have the following meanings:(A) "Agency director": A person designated by the board of trustees or other governing body of the licensed facility as the principal executive offic…

19.03 PDF: (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction (ODRC) establishes applicable performance-based general operating standards and minimum operating expectations for halfway houses and community residential centers licensed and funded by ODRC through the bureau of com…

19.03 PDF: (A) As used in this rule:(1) "Community control offender" means an offender sentenced directly to a halfway house under a community control sanction or placed in a halfway house as an additional sanction imposed by the court upon the offender after the offender violate…

h 119. PDF: (A) This rule establishes the minimum eligibility requirements and procedures for a "halfway house organization" as defined in section 5120.102 of the Revised Code, to apply for program planning funds for a halfway house facility as defined in section 5120.102 of the …

19.03 PDF: (A) "Local corrections planning board": A board established by resolution of the board of county commissioners of each county, pursuant to section 5149.34 of the Revised Code for the purpose of developing, implementing and operating a continuum of community control san…

19.03 PDF: (A) If a county or a group of counties desire to receive funding from the department of rehabilitation and correction ("department") for the development, implementation and operation of a continuum of community control sanctions, then this rule establishes under what c…

19.03 PDF: (A) This rule establishes the minimum requirements local corrections agencies shall meet to be eligible for funding from the department of rehabilitation and correction ("department") for the development, implementation, and operation of a continuum of community contro…

19.03 PDF: (A) A local or joint county corrections planning board or its designee, shall have responsibilities for managing the continuum of community control sanctions, including:(1) Fiscal and operational requirements;(2) Establishing programs that are consistent with paragraph…

19.03 PDF: (A) A local or joint county corrections planning board or its designee, shall cooperate with the department of rehabilitation and correction ("department") in monitoring and evaluating community control sanctions funded by the department.(B) Each program shall use the …

19.03 PDF: (A) A grant application submitted by a county, group of contiguous counties, or a municipality shall be approved pursuant to rule 5120:1-5-03 of the Administrative Code and funded according to the following priorities:(1) First priority shall be given to the continued …

19.03 PDF: (A) If a municipal corporation, county, or group of contiguous counties receiving a subsidy from the department of rehabilitation and correction ("department") for the development, implementation, and operation of community control sanctions violates any provision of t…

19.03 PDF: (A) The Ohio department of rehabilitation and correction (ODRC) establishes performance-based general operating standards and minimum operating expectations for subsidized community correction act programs funded by ODRC through the bureau of community sanctions (BCS).…