Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Grafton Correctional Institution
Address
2500 South Avon Belden Road
Grafton, Ohio 44044
Phone
(440) 748-1161; Fax (440) 748-2521
Video Tour
Institutional Information
| Date Opened | 1988 | ||||||||
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| Total Acreage | 1,782 | ||||||||
| Accreditation Status | Yes | ||||||||
| Total Security Staff | 196 | ||||||||
| Total Staff | 338 | ||||||||
| FY12 GRF Budget |
$29,573,567 | ||||||||
| (subject to monthly review and adjustment) | |||||||||
| Daily Cost Per Inmate | $56.43 | ||||||||
| Population as of 2/12 | 1,946 | ||||||||
| Black Inmates | 999 | ||||||||
| White Inmates | 901 | ||||||||
| Other Inmates | 46 | ||||||||
| Escapes/Walkways 2011 | 0 | ||||||||
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Security Level Descriptions:
- 1 = Minimum Security
- 2 = Medium Security
- 3 = Close Security
- 4 = Maximum Security
- 5 = Administrative Maximum
Visiting
Hours
- General Population: Inmates are permitted visits based on their institutional number. Inmates whose institutional number ends in an odd number are permitted visitation on odd numbered calendar days. Inmates whose institutional number ends in an even number are permitted visitation on even numbered calendar days. Visitation is available on the following dates and times:
- Tuesday - Saturday 8:00 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. (Morning Session)
12:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Afternoon Session) - Visitors must be processed in no later than 9:45 a.m. for morning visiting sessions and 2:45 p.m. for afternoon visiting sessions.
- Visiting in the main compound is closed on Sunday
and Monday and all
State Holidays.
- GCI Camp Inmates:
Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Visiting at the GCI Camp is closed Monday - Friday
and all State Holidays.
- Visiting hours are subject to change without notice. Please call the institution to verify visiting hours before planning a visit.
Reservations
- Visiting reservations are not necessary. However, if the visiting area becomes filled, a first-in, first-out system will be implemented to allow all visitors an opportunity to visit.
Institution-Specific Visiting Information
- If the visiting area becomes filled, a first-in, first-out system will be implemented to allow all visitors an opportunity to visit.
For general visiting information or to download a visitor application, go to our visiting page.
Phone Calls
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Information on inmate telephone service and access is located at Offender Phone Services.
Correspondence
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Information on written correspondence may be found at Offender Mail and Packages.
Unique Programs
- The Career Technical Horticulture Program is an educational program at GCI designed to offer inmates the opportunity to develop marketable skills in the horticulture field. The one-year program, composed of both classroom and hands on training, prepares students to test for the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association Certification. Upon successful completion of all three exams in this test, inmates are granted the Interim Ohio Nursery Technician Master Status. There is a five week program offered to short term offenders providing an overview of the program. Plants and vegetables are grown and sold to staff providing a self-sustaining program. In addition to the staff sales, several hundred pounds of produce are donated to the local food bank each year.
- Faith Based Family Reintegration Program is a program for offenders, their family members, sponsors and mentors. The program is facilitated by GCI staff, Adult Parole Authority staff, and local clergy volunteers. The program consists of 4 phases of tabletop exercises designed to involve the offender and his family in the development of a family reintegration plan (family contract). The program participants will meet twice each month for 12 months. The finished product will be a family plan that the offender and family members can use as a guide to help them work through reentry issues. They will be encouraged to share their plan with the minister in the church they will be attending upon release from prison.
Inmate Programs
Industries
- Braille Transcription and Bottling of Fragrances
Community Service
- Dope is for Dopes
- Heart to Heart
- Adopt-A-School
- Crocheting/Quilting
- Highway Litter Pickup
- Service Learning
- Ohio Reads
- Kids in Need
- Love-A-Pup
Academic
- Adult Basic Education
- Pre-GED
- GED
- Ashland University
Vocational
- Welding
- Machine shop
- Auto mechanics
- Horticulture
Adoptable Dog Program
Many institutions participate in fostering and training abandoned dogs for adoption.
Religious Services
Reading Room
In 2000, former First Lady Hope Taft approached the Director about establishing a reading room for the children who visited their incarcerated parent at the Pickaway Correctional Institution. This idea spread across the state, and now the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction maintains children’s reading rooms in each prison.
The reading rooms encourage family literacy by providing a pleasant and comfortable setting for both child and incarcerated parent. Each room is stocked with a wide variety of children’s books and has an inmate narrator who reads to the visiting children twice a day. The role of the inmate narrator is to read picture books to the children in much the same manner that children’s hour would be done at a public library.
A variety of arts and craft supplies for the children are also available in most of the rooms. Many of the supplies and books are donated by employees and service organizations.