Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5120 - Department Of Rehabilitation And Correction

• Section 5120.01 - Director Of Rehabilitation And Correction - Powers And Duties.
  The director of rehabilitation and correction is the executive head of the department of rehabilitation and correction. All duties conferred on the various divisions...
• Section 5120.011 - Sanctions Imposed For Frivolous Actions.
  (A) As used in this section, "civil action or appeal against a government entity or employee," "inmate," "political subdivision," and "employee" have the same...
• Section 5120.02 - Assistant Director Of Department - Powers And Duties.
  The assistant director of the department of rehabilitation and correction is hereby excepted from section 121.05 of the Revised Code. The assistant director shall...
• Section 5120.021 - Application Of Chapter.
  (A) The provisions of Chapter 5120. of the Revised Code, as they existed prior to July 1, 1996, and that address the duration or...
• Section 5120.03 - Designation Of Use Of Institutions.
  (A) Subject to division (C) of this section, the director of rehabilitation and correction may change the purpose for which any institution or place...
• Section 5120.031 - Pilot Program Of Shock Incarceration.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Certificate of high school equivalence" means a statement that is issued by the state board of education...
• Section 5120.032 - Intensive Program Prisons.
  (A) No later than January 1, 1998, the department of rehabilitation and correction may develop and implement intensive program prisons for male and female...
• Section 5120.033 - Intensive Program Prisons For Certain Ovi Offenders.
  (A) As used in this section, "third degree felony OVI offense" and "fourth degree felony OVI offense" have the same meanings as in section...
• Section 5120.034 - Reentry Services By Nonprofit Faith-based Organizations.
  (A) (1) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall permit representatives of all nonprofit faith-based, business, professional, civic, educational, and community organizations that are...
• Section 5120.035 - Community-based Substance Use Disorder Treatment For Qualified Prisoners.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Community treatment provider" means a program that provides substance use disorder assessment and treatment for persons and...
• Section 5120.036 - Risk Reduction Programming And Treatment.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall provide risk reduction programming and treatment for inmates whom a court under section 2929.143 of the...
• Section 5120.037 - Substance Abuse Recovery Prison; Feasibility Study.
  (A) Not later than June 30, 2016, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall study the feasibility of converting an existing state correctional facility,...
• Section 5120.04 - Assigning Prisoner Labor On Public Works.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction, with the approval of the governor and in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section...
• Section 5120.05 - Maintenance And Management Of Institutions.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction may maintain, operate, manage, and govern all state institutions for the custody, control, training, and rehabilitation of persons...
• Section 5120.051 - Mentally Ill And Mentally Retarded Persons Who Are Incarcerated.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall provide for the needs of mentally ill and mentally retarded persons who are incarcerated in state correctional...
• Section 5120.06 - Divisions Of Department.
  (A) The following divisions are hereby established in the department of rehabilitation and correction: (1) The division of business administration; (2) The division of...
• Section 5120.07 - [See Notes] Ex-offender Reentry Coalition.
  (A) There is hereby created the ex-offender reentry coalition consisting of the following seventeen members or their designees: (1) The director of rehabilitation and...
• Section 5120.071 To 5120.074 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-17-1998
• Section 5120.08 - Bonds For Employees.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall require any of its employees and each officer and employee of every institution under its control who...
• Section 5120.09 - Division Of Business Administration - Powers And Duties.
  Under the supervision and control of the director of rehabilitation and correction, the division of business administration shall do all of the following: (A)...
• Section 5120.091 - Education Services Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the education services fund. The department of rehabilitation and correction shall deposit into the fund all...
• Section 5120.092 - Adult And Juvenile Correctional Facilities Bond Retirement Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the adult and juvenile correctional facilities bond retirement fund. The fund shall receive proceeds derived from...
• Section 5120.10 - Jail Standards.
  (A) (1) The director of rehabilitation and correction, by rule, shall promulgate minimum standards for jails in Ohio, including minimum security jails dedicated under...
• Section 5120.101 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-16-1996
• Section 5120.102 - Halfway House Facility Definitions.
  As used in sections 5120.102 to 5120.105 of the Revised Code: (A) "Private, nonprofit organization" means a private association, organization, corporation, or other entity...
• Section 5120.103 - Construction Of Halfway Houses.
  (A) To the extent that funds are available, the department of rehabilitation and correction, in accordance with this section and sections 5120.104 and 5120.105...
• Section 5120.104 - Acquiring And Leasing Of Capital Facilities Or Sites For Use As Halfway House.
  (A) It is hereby declared to be a public purpose and an essential governmental function of the state that the department of rehabilitation and...
• Section 5120.105 - Providing Construction Services For Halfway Houses.
  (A) The Ohio facilities construction commission shall provide for the construction of a halfway house facility in conformity with Chapter 153. of the Revised...
• Section 5120.11 - Bureau Of Examination And Classification.
  Within the department of rehabilitation and correction, there shall be established and maintained a bureau of examination and classification. The bureau shall conduct or...
• Section 5120.111 - Rules And Forms For Community-based Correctional Facilities And Programs.
  With respect to community-based correctional facilities and programs and district community-based correctional facilities and programs authorized under section 2301.51 of the Revised Code, the...
• Section 5120.112 - Application For State Financial Assistance To Community-based Correctional Facilities And Programs.
  (A) The division of parole and community services shall accept applications for state financial assistance for the renovation, maintenance, and operation of proposed and...
• Section 5120.113 - Written Reentry Plans.
  (A) For each inmate committed to the department of rehabilitation and correction, except as provided in division (B) of this section, the department shall...
• Section 5120.114 - Single Validated Risk Assessment Tool.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall select a single validated risk assessment tool for adult offenders. This assessment tool shall be used...
• Section 5120.115 - Authorized Users; Confidentiality Of Reports.
  (A) Each authorized user of the single validated risk assessment tool described in section 5120.114 of the Revised Code shall have access to all...
• Section 5120.12 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.35, HB 133, §2, eff. 9/30/2011. Effective Date: 03-04-1998 Related Legislative Provision: See 129th General AssemblyFile No.35, HB 133,
• Section 5120.13 - Holding Funds In Trust For Inmates.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall accept and hold on behalf of the state, if it is for the public interest, any...
• Section 5120.131 - Industrial And Entertainment Fund - Commissary Fund.
  Each managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction as described in section 5120.05 of the Revised...
• Section 5120.132 - Prisoner Programs Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the prisoner programs fund. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall deposit in the fund...
• Section 5120.133 - Prisoner's Financial Obligations And Funds.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction, upon receipt of a certified copy of the judgment of a court of record in an action...
• Section 5120.134 - Vending Commission Fund.
  Each managing officer of an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction, based upon a recommendation of the institution's joint...
• Section 5120.135 - Laboratory Services.
  (A) As used in this section, "laboratory services" includes the performance of medical laboratory analysis; professional laboratory and pathologist consultation; the procurement, storage, and...
• Section 5120.14 - Notice Of Escape And Of Apprehension Of Escapee.
  (A) If a person who was convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense escapes from a correctional institution in this state under the...
• Section 5120.15 - Admission And Discharge Of Inmates.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall regulate the admission and discharge of inmates in the institutions described in section 5120.05 of the Revised...
• Section 5120.16 - Reception, Examination, Observation, And Classification Of Inmantes.
  (A) Persons sentenced to any institution, division, or place under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction are committed to the control,...
• Section 5120.161 - Local Housing Of Certain State Prisoners.
  (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department of rehabilitation and correction may enter into an agreement with any local...
• Section 5120.162 - Transferring Children In Custody Of Youth Services Department To Correctional Medical Center.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction may enter into an agreement with the department of youth services pursuant to which the department of...
• Section 5120.163 - Examination, Testing And Treatment For Certain Diseases.
  At the time of reception and at other times the director determines to be appropriate, the department of rehabilitation and correction may examine and...
• Section 5120.17 - Transferring Inmate To Psychiatric Hospital.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation, or memory that grossly impairs judgment,...
• Section 5120.171 - Care And Treatment Of Seriously Mentally Ill Inmates.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall have exclusive direction and control of the care and treatment of seriously mentally ill inmates who...
• Section 5120.172 - Consent To Medical Treatment Of Minor Prosecuted As Adult.
  A minor whose case is transferred for criminal prosecution pursuant to section 2152.12 of the Revised Code, who is prosecuted as an adult and...
• Section 5120.173 - Report Of Child Abuse Or Neglect To State Highway Patrol.
  Any person who is required to report abuse or neglect of a child under eighteen years of age that is reasonably suspected or believed...
• Section 5120.18 - Classifying Public Buildings - Purchase Of Articles.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall, with the advice and consent of the department of administrative services, classify public buildings, offices, and institutions...
• Section 5120.19 - Cultivating Lands - Transactions Between Institutions.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, shall...
• Section 5120.20 - Cooperative Tests By Agriculture And Health Departments.
  The department of agriculture, department of health, and Ohio state university shall cooperate with the department of rehabilitation and correction in making such cooperative...
• Section 5120.21 - Records.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall keep in its office, accessible only to its employees, except by the consent of the department...
• Section 5120.211 - Quality Assurance Records Are Confidential.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Quality assurance committee" means a committee that is appointed in the central office of the department of...
• Section 5120.22 - Division Of Business Administration - Property Management Duties.
  (A) The division of business administration shall examine the conditions of all buildings, grounds, and other property connected with the institutions under the control...
• Section 5120.23 - Estimates Of Required Supplies.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall require proper officials of the state and its political subdivisions and of the institutions of the...
• Section 5120.24 - Purchasing Supplies.
  The department of administrative services shall purchase all supplies needed for the proper support and maintenance of the institutions under the control of the...
• Section 5120.25 - Books And Accounts.
  The department of correction shall keep in its office a proper and complete set of books and accounts with each institution, which shall clearly...
• Section 5120.26 - Funds.
  (A) The treasurer of state shall have charge of all funds under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction and shall pay...
• Section 5120.27 - Industries Carried On By Institutions.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction may assign among the correctional and penal institutions under its control and in accordance with the rules adopted...
• Section 5120.28 - Fixing Prices For Labor And Services.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall fix the prices at which all labor and services performed, all agricultural products produced, and all...
• Section 5120.29 - Institutional Services Fund; Ohio Penal Industries Manufacturing Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created, in the state treasury, the institutional services fund, which shall be used for the: (1) Purchase of material, supplies,...
• Section 5120.30 - Investigations.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction may make any investigations that are necessary in the performance of its duties, and to that end the...
• Section 5120.31 - Appointing Special Agents And Persons.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction may appoint and commission any competent agency or person, to serve without compensation, as a special agent, investigator,...
• Section 5120.32 - Annual Report.
  In its annual report, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall include a complete financial statement of the various institutions under its control. The...
• Section 5120.33 - Listing Employees.
  The annual report of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall include a list of the officers and agents employed, and the conditions of...
• Section 5120.331 - Annual Report Of Inmate Time Served And Releases.
  (A) Not later than the first day of April of each year, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall prepare an annual report covering...
• Section 5120.34 - Nonpartisan Management Of Institutions.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall make rules for the nonpartisan management of the institutions under its control. Any officer or employee of...
• Section 5120.35 - Annual Report Suggestions And Recommendations.
  In its annual report, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall make any suggestions or recommendations it considers wise for the more effectual accomplishment...
• Section 5120.36 - Executive, Administrative, And Fiscal Supervision Of Institutions.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction, in addition to the powers expressly conferred, shall have all power and authority necessary for the full and...
• Section 5120.37 - Sharing Information With Department Of Job And Family Services.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall enter into an agreement with the department of job and family services to exchange or share information...
• Section 5120.38 - Duties Of Managing Officer.
  Subject to the rules of the department of rehabilitation and correction, each institution under the department's jurisdiction other than an institution operated pursuant to...
• Section 5120.381 - Deputy Warden.
  Subject to the rules of the department of rehabilitation and correction, the director of rehabilitation and correction may appoint a deputy warden for each...
• Section 5120.382 - Appointment Of Employees.
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter for appointments by division chiefs and managing officers, the director of rehabilitation and correction shall appoint employees...
• Section 5120.39 - Superintendent Of Institution - Powers And Duties.
  Each superintendent of an institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall be of good moral character and have skill,...
• Section 5120.40 - Qualification Of Teachers.
  All teachers employed in any institution under the jurisdiction of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall possess educator licenses or have the qualifications...
• Section 5120.41 - Courses Of Study.
  The courses of study for the instruction and training of all persons in the correctional institutions under the control of the department of rehabilitation...
• Section 5120.42 - Rules For Proper Execution Of Powers.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall make rules for the proper execution of its powers and may require the performance of additional duties...
• Section 5120.421 - Visitor Searches.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Body cavity search" means an inspection of the anal or vaginal cavity of a person that is...
• Section 5120.422 - Rules For Site Selection.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall prescribe rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, that govern the department's actions whenever...
• Section 5120.423 - Rules For Designating Equipment And Programs That Improve Fighting Skills.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that designate devices and programs that,...
• Section 5120.424 - Purchasing Fixed Weight Exercise Equipment.
  On and after the effective date of this act, no moneys in the treasury of the state, or moneys coming lawfully into the possession...
• Section 5120.425 - Prisoner Access To Inflammatory And Other Materials Definitions.
  As used in sections 5120.425 to 5120.428 of the Revised Code: (A) "Head of a state correctional institution," "prisoner," and "state correctional institution" have...
• Section 5120.426 - Rules Governing Access To Materials.
  (A) The director of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules, and each warden shall adopt regulations that govern the form, medium, and quantity of...
• Section 5120.427 - Right To Recieve Materials.
  (A) Each prisoner confined in a state correctional institution may receive a reasonable number of materials directly from the publishers or other distributors of...
• Section 5120.428 - Request For Review.
  (A) If a prisoner confined in a state correctional institution submits a timely written review request under division (B)(3) of section 5120.427 of the...
• Section 5120.43 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-31-2003
• Section 5120.44 - Liberal Construction Of Chapter.
  Chapter 5120: of the Revised Code attempts: (A) To provide humane and scientific treatment and care and the highest attainable degree of individual development...
• Section 5120.45 - Burial Or Cremation Of Inmate.
  The state shall bear the expense of the burial or cremation of an inmate who dies in a state correctional institution, if the body...
• Section 5120.46 - Appropriating Property.
  When it is necessary for a state correctional institution to acquire any real estate, right-of-way, or easement in real estate in order to accomplish...
• Section 5120.47 - Leasing Capital Facilities.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall lease capital facilities constructed, reconstructed, or otherwise improved, which facilities are financed by the treasurer of state...
• Section 5120.48 - Apprehending Escapee Or Prisoner Mistakenly Released.
  (A) If a prisoner escapes from a state correctional institution, the managing officer of the institution, after consultation with and upon the advice of...
• Section 5120.49 - Standards And Guidelines For Termination Of Parole Board's Control Over Certain Sexually Violent Offenders.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall prescribe standards and guidelines to be used...
• Section 5120.50 - Interstate Correction Compact.
  (A) The party states, desiring by common action to fully utilize and improve their programs for the confinement, treatment, and rehabilitation of various types...
• Section 5120.51 - Population And Cost Impact Statement For Legislative Bill.
  (A) (1) If the director of rehabilitation and correction determines that a bill introduced in the general assembly is likely to have a significant...
• Section 5120.52 - Contract For Sewage Services.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction may enter into a contract with any person or with a political subdivision in which a state correctional...
• Section 5120.53 - Transfer Or Exchange Of Convicted Offender To Foreign Country Pursuant To Treaty.
  (A) If a treaty between the United States and a foreign country provides for the transfer or exchange, from one of the signatory countries...
• Section 5120.55 - Licensed Health Professional Recruitment Program.
  (A) As used in this section, "licensed health professional" means any or all of the following: (1) A dentist who holds a current, valid...
• Section 5120.56 - Recovering Cost Of Incarceration Or Supervision From Offender.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Ancillary services" means services provided to an offender as necessary for the particular circumstances of the offender's...
• Section 5120.57 - Reimbursement For Health Care Services Rendered To Insured Offender.
  (A) For each offender who is in the custody or under the supervision of the department of rehabilitation and correction, the department may make...
• Section 5120.58 - Rules For Health Care Benefits And Preventive Services.
  The department of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules under section 111.15 of the Revised Code to do both of the following: (A) Establish...
• Section 5120.59 - Verification Of Prisoner's Identity Before Release.
  Before a prisoner is released from a state correctional institution, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall attempt to verify the prisoner's identification and...
• Section 5120.60 - Office Of Victim Services.
  (A) There is hereby created in the division of parole and community services the office of victim services. (B) The office shall provide assistance...
• Section 5120.61 - Risk Assessment Reports For Sexually Violent Offenders.
  (A) (1) Not later than ninety days after January 1, 1997, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt standards that it will use...
• Section 5120.62 - Internet Access For Prisoners.
  The director of rehabilitation and correction shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that govern the establishment and operation of a...
• Section 5120.63 - Random Drug Testing Of State Prisoners.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Random drug testing" means a procedure in which blood or urine specimens are collected from individuals chosen...
• Section 5120.64 - Rules Regarding The Return Of Ohio Prisoners From Outside Of This State Into This State By A Private Person Or Entity.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Ohio prisoner" means a person who is charged with or convicted of a crime in this state...
• Section 5120.65 - Prison Nursery Program.
  (A) The department of rehabilitation and correction may establish in one or more of the institutions for women operated by the department a prison...
• Section 5120.651 - Eligibility For Program.
  An inmate is eligible to participate in the prison nursery program if she is pregnant at the time she is delivered into the custody...
• Section 5120.652 - Duties Of Inmate Participants.
  To participate in the prison nursery program, each eligible inmate selected by the department shall do all the following: (A) Agree in writing to...
• Section 5120.653 - Termination Of Participation In Program.
  An inmate's participation in the prison nursery program may be terminated by the department of rehabilitation and correction if one of the following occurs:...
• Section 5120.654 - Collecting Support Payments.
  (A) The rights to support assigned by an inmate pursuant to section 5120.652 of the Revised Code constitute an obligation of the person who...
• Section 5120.655 - Prison Nursery Program Fund - Individual Nursery Accounts.
  The managing officer of each institution in which a prison nursery program is established pursuant to section 5120.65 of the Revised Code shall do...
• Section 5120.656 - No Regulation By Department Of Job And Family Services.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, neither the prison nursery program nor the department of rehabilitation and correction, with respect to the...
• Section 5120.657 - Adoption Of Rules.
  If the department of rehabilitation and correction establishes the prison nursery program, it shall, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt...
• Section 5120.66 - Internet Database Of Inmate Offense, Sentence, And Release Information; "Laura's Law".
  (A) Within ninety days after November 23, 2005, but not before January 1, 2006, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall establish and operate...
• Section 5120.70 - Federal Equitable Sharing Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the federal equitable sharing fund. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall deposit in the...
• Section 5120.80 - Community Programs Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the community programs fund. The department of rehabilitation and correction shall use the moneys in the...
• Section 5120.99 - Penalty.
  A person who violates division (B)(2) of section 5120.211 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than two thousand five hundred dollars...

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