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...The board of county commissioners may employ a superintendent and such guards and attendants as are necessary for the safekeeping, proper working, and welfare of its convicts, and, in all other respects, shall make efficient the service contemplated in sections 5147.01 to 5147.26, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Except for prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or officer in charge of any workhouse or jail, shall place to the credit of each prisoner the amount of the prisoner's earnings that the board or officer considers equitable and just, taking into consideration the character of the prisoner, the nature of the cr...

...The department of rehabilitation and correction, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, may detail, temporarily, from a state correctional institution, with the consent of the managing officer of the institution, any inmates under its control, to perform specified labor.

...(A) The court of common pleas and each municipal and county court in a county in which all of those courts agree on uniform standards may provide by rule for a work-release program to permit any prisoner in a county or city jail or workhouse, other than a prisoner sentenced under a non-suspendable sentence, to be employed with the prisoner's consent outside of the jail or workhouse. In any county in which the common ...

...(A) A prisoner participating in a work-release program shall surrender his earnings, less standard payroll deductions required by law, to a person designated by the court which has established the work-release program. (B) The person designated by the court to collect the earnings of the prisoner shall maintain complete and accurate records as to all prisoners employed in a work-release program with respect to all m...

...As used in Chapter 5149. of the Revised Code: (A) "Authority" means the adult parole authority created by section 5149.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "State correctional institution," "pardon," "commutation," "reprieve," "parole," "head of a state correctional institution," "convict," "prisoner," "parolee," "final release," and "parole violator" have the same meanings as in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code. ...

...There is hereby created in the division of parole and community services of the department of rehabilitation and correction at bureau level an adult parole authority. The adult parole authority consists of its chief, a field services section, and a parole board. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall appoint the chief of the adult parole authority, one or more superintendents of the field services sec...

...(A) The adult parole authority shall administer Chapter 5149. and the provisions of Chapter 2967., Chapter 2971., and sections 2301.27 to 2301.32, 2941.46, 2951.06, and 2951.08 of the Revised Code that impose duties upon the authority. The authority may enter into a written agreement with a person or government entity to share information, personnel, and services for one or more of the following purposes: training...

...No parole officer employed by the adult parole authority shall be required while engaged in the course of the parole officer's employment or official responsibilities for the adult parole authority to use the parole officer's privately owned motor vehicle to transport any offender, an offender's relatives or associates, or any urine sample.

...iding maximum protection to the general public. All state and local officials shall furnish such information to officers of the section as they may request in the performance of their duties. (B) The superintendent, or superintendents, of the field services section shall be a person, or persons, especially qualified by training and experience in the field of corrections. The superintendent, or superintendents, ...

...the adult parole authority may grant an employee permission to carry a firearm in the discharge of the employee's official duties if the employee has successfully completed a basic firearm training program that is approved by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission. In order to continue to carry a firearm in the discharge of the employee's official duties, the employee annually shall succ...

...One of the primary duties of the field services section is to assist the counties in developing their own probation services on either a single-county or multiple-county basis. The section, within limits of available personnel and funds, may supervise selected probationers from local courts.

...The department of rehabilitation and correction shall maintain central files and records pertaining to the work of the adult parole authority, and shall coordinate the department's record-keeping with that of the adult parole authority. Additionally, the department shall not later than the first Monday of January of odd-numbered years prepare and submit to the governor for the governor's approval and signature ...

...dult parole authority, its officers and employees, and neither the authority nor any of its officers or employees shall employ or be represented in its or his official capacity by any other counsel or attorney at law.

...he chief shall appoint all officers and employees of the authority except for those officers appointed by the director of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to section 5149.02 or division (B) of section 5149.10 of the Revised Code.

...t, this member shall be an unclassified employee of the department of rehabilitation and correction. The initial appointment shall be for a term ending four years after July 1, 1996. Thereafter, the term of office of the member appointed under this division shall be for four years, with each term ending on the same day of the same month as did the term that it succeeds. The member shall hold office from the date of ...

...of the original offense. (6) A state public defender when designated by the director of the department of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to division (A)(5) of section 120.06 of the Revised Code, private counsel, or some other person designated by the prisoner as a representative, as permitted by the board. (C) Except as otherwise provided in this division, a full board hearing of the parole board is not...

... kept by the adult parole authority are public records.

...The adult parole authority shall exercise general supervision over the work of all probation and parole officers throughout the state, excluding those appointed in county probation departments and those appointed by municipal judges.

...For the purposes of Chapter 5149. of the Revised Code, all of the following apply: (A) "State, states, or States" means one or several of the fifty states of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. (B) The term "parole" includes post-release control under section 2967.28 of the Revised Code. (C) The term "probation" includes non-prison sanctions imposed under sections 2929...

...ect or appoint any officers, attorneys, employees, agents, or consultants, and to fix their compensation, define their duties, and determine their qualifications; and to establish the interstate commission's personnel policies and programs relating to, among other things, conflicts of interest, rates of compensation, and qualifications of personnel; (J) To accept any and all donations and grants of money, equipment,...

...cuting attorney, a member of the state public defender's office, and a chief probation officer. The attorney general shall appoint one member, who shall be from the bureau of criminal identification and investigation. The director of rehabilitation and correction shall appoint as many additional members as the director considers necessary to fulfill the mission of the compact. The Ohio council for interstate a...

...(A) The chief of the adult parole authority may deputize any person regularly employed by another state to act as an officer and agent of this state in effecting the return of any person who has violated the terms and conditions of parole or probation as granted by this state. In any matter relating to the return of such a person, any agent so deputized shall have all the powers of a police officer of this state. An...

...(A) When a sending state places a hold warrant or a detainer warrant on an offender supervised under the interstate compact for adult offender supervision who is in custody in this state and that warrant does not provide that the offender may be released on bond pending return to the sending state, no court of record in this state has authority to release the offender on bond until the sending state withdraws the war...

...As used in sections 5149.30 to 5149.37 of the Revised Code: (A) "Community corrections programs" include, but are not limited to, probation, parole, preventive or diversionary corrections programs, release-on-recognizance programs, prosecutorial diversion programs, specialized treatment programs for offenders with alcoholism and narcotic addictions, and community control sanctions as defined in section 2929.01 of t...