Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Ohio State Penitentiary
Address
878 Coitsville-Hubbard Road
Youngstown, Ohio 44505
Phone
(330) 743-0700
Fax
(330) 743-0841
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Institutional Information
| Date Opened | 1998 | ||||||||
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| Total Acreage | 240 | ||||||||
| Accreditation Status | Yes | ||||||||
| Total Security Staff | 263 | ||||||||
| Total Staff | 412 | ||||||||
| Projected FY10 GRF Budget |
$30,399,576 | ||||||||
| (subject to monthly review and adjustment) | |||||||||
| Daily Cost Per Inmate | $167.38 | ||||||||
| Population as of 1/10 | 526 | ||||||||
| Black Inmates | 290 | ||||||||
| White Inmates | 221 | ||||||||
| Hispanic Inmates | 9 | ||||||||
| Other Inmates | 6 | ||||||||
| Escapes/Walkways 2009 | 0 | ||||||||
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Security Level Descriptions:
- 1 = Minimum Security
- 2 = Medium Security
- 3 = Close Security
- 4 = Maximum Security
- 5 = Administrative Maximum
Visiting
- Inmate visiting is Wednesday through Sunday, 7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. All approved visitors are welcome. Visitation is by APPOINTMENT ONLY, call (330) 743-0700 x. 2111 to make an appointment.
For general visiting information or to download a visitor application, go to our visiting page.
Correspondence
- Written correspondence to inmates must include the inmate's name and number on the envelope and be addressed to the appropriate institution.
Unique Programs
- Aunt Mary's Storybook: This program allows incarcerated fathers an opportunity to make a special connection with their children through reading a storybook on tape and sending the book and tape to the child. This connection can provide healing as the parent and the child deal with their separation from one another. This program promotes literacy, provides the inmates' children an opportunity to hear their fathers speaking directly to them and strengthens the ties of male inmate with their families.
- Healthy Lifestyles: The goal of this program is to encourage participants to find the motivation and achieve actual behavioral changes in their lifestyles which will support an addiction-free life. This group will focus on establishing healthy home environments (including tobacco free), personal strategies for establishing healthier habits and lifestyle choices.
Inmate Programs
Community Service
- Inmate speak out program
- WAGS Dog Program
- Jubilee Gardens
- Martin Luther King Elementary School Adopt-A-School
- Sojourner House
Academic
- Adult Basic Education
- Pre-GED
- GED
- Reentry
- Short Term Offender Unit
Religious Services
- Complete listing of available programming/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. This past year the Department served over 45,000 children. The inmate narrators worked over 32,000 hours in reading to and with the children.
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