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...ns 2929.13 and 2929.14 of the Revised Code. All prison terms may be ended in the manner provided by law, but no prison term shall exceed the maximum term provided for the felony of which the prisoner was convicted as extended pursuant to section 2929.141 or 2967.28 of the Revised Code. If a prisoner is sentenced for two or more separate felonies, the prisoner's term of imprisonment shall run as a concurrent senten...

...al right to attend any hearing that is held on the rules pursuant to that chapter and that is held outside the institution in which the prisoner is incarcerated; however, the attorney for any prisoner may attend the hearing on behalf of the prisoner. The director may hold hearings on the rules pursuant to that chapter at any of the department's correctional institutions to receive comment from prisoners, which hearin...

...em from committing crime, secure their self-support, and accomplish their reformation. When a prisoner is received into a state correctional institution upon direct sentence to the institution, the department shall enter in a register the date of the admission, the prisoner's name, age, nativity, nationality, and other facts as to parentage and early social influences that might indicate the constitutional and acqui...

...ent, bearing upon the propriety of the release or parole of the prisoner.

...nd, the department may employ appropriately certified teachers, administrators, and support staff. The department shall provide classrooms, shops, and other appropriate facilities and necessary furniture, books, stationery, supplies, and equipment. (B)(1) The department of rehabilitation and correction shall require each prisoner who has not obtained a high school diploma to take courses leading toward an Ohio cer...

...The superintendent of the elementary day school for uneducated prisoners in the penitentiary shall make monthly reports to the department of rehabilitation and correction with respect to the management and progress of the school and as to all matters under his supervision.

...ssly authorized by rules adopted by the department of rehabilitation and correction pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code.

...The department of rehabilitation and correction may, in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to division (B) of section 5145.03 of the Revised Code, employ a portion of the prisoners in the manufacture of articles that are used by the state, any other state, any political subdivision or institution of this state, any other state, or the United States, or private persons. The department may procure machinery and pre...

... permit prisoners to be released on transitional control, in addition to other authorized reasons for transferring a prisoner to transitional control, to gain post-release employment in private industry or agriculture; (5) Attempt to provide jobs and job training for prisoners that will be useful to the prisoners in obtaining employment when released, except that institutional jobs at the institutions need not be re...

...oner has been committed, and all other relevant factors when assigning a prisoner to the prisoner's initial job assignment. The department, when making a prisoner's initial job assignment, shall attempt to develop the prisoner's work skills, provide rehabilitation for the prisoner, consider the proximity to the prisoner's family, and permit the prisoner to provide support for the prisoner's dependents if the prisoner...

...eby created the office of enterprise development advisory board to advise and assist the department of rehabilitation and correction with the creation of training programs and jobs for inmates and releasees through partnerships with private sector businesses. The board shall consist of at least five appointed members. Each member shall have experience in labor relations, marketing, business management, or business. T...

...ed in this section: (1) "Customer model enterprise" means an enterprise conducted under a federal prison industries enhancement certification program in which a private party participates in the enterprise only as a purchaser of goods and services. (2) "Employer model enterprise" means an enterprise conducted under a federal prison industries enhancement certification program in which a private party participat...

...tion shall provide every inmate who is released from a term of imprisonment for a felony offense and whose intended residence is within this state with the documentation listed in division (B) of this section to assist the inmate in obtaining post-release employment. (2) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the department shall assist each inmate in creating a resume and conducting a practice job int...

...with any person and for furnishing and delivering the roadmaking material for use upon the appropriate roads, streets, and highways. (B) Any money received for roadmaking materials prepared by prisoners shall be deposited into the Ohio penal industries manufacturing fund created pursuant to section 5120.29 of the Revised Code and shall be used and accounted for as provided in that section.

...ental health and addiction services, developmental disabilities, and rehabilitation and correction, the department of public safety in connection with the registration of motor vehicles, and for any other purpose authorized by division (B) of section 5145.03 and by sections 5145.16 and 5145.161 of the Revised Code.

...The warden of a state correctional institution shall arrest and again commit to the institution a convict who escapes from the institution and is found at large, whether the term for which he was sentenced to imprisonment has expired.

... or certified nurse practitioner who is designated by the department of rehabilitation and correction shall keep a correct record of vital statistics of the penitentiary, containing the name, nationality or race, weight, stature, former occupation, and family history of each prisoner, a statement of the condition of the heart, lungs, and other leading organs, rate of the pulse and respiration, measurement of the ches...

...may grant an administrative release, as defined in section 2967.01 of the Revised Code, to a prisoner who escaped from a state correctional institution and whose whereabouts are unknown when both of the following apply: (1) The ninetieth anniversary of the prisoner's birth has passed; (2) A period of at least twenty years has passed since the date of the prisoner's escape. (B) The director shall adopt rules pursua...

...concerned in the violation, shall be expelled from the state correctional institution and not again permitted within it in such capacity.

...id into the prisoner's aid fund to provide books and other educational materials for the inmates of the volunteer's correctional institution.

...nt includes, but is not limited to, barbells, dumbbells, weight plates, and similar free weight-type equipment and other devices that the department of rehabilitation and correction, in rules adopted under section 5120.423 of the Revised Code, designates as enabling a person to increase muscle mass and physical strength. (2) Fixed weight exercise equipment means any equipment, machine, or device that is not designed...

... as in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code. (B) No officer or employee of a correctional institution under the control or supervision of the department of rehabilitation and correction shall provide a prisoner access to or permit a prisoner to have access to the internet through the use of a computer, computer network, computer system, computer services, telecommunications service, or information service unless bot...

...mployee of a correctional institution under the control or supervision of the department of rehabilitation and correction, and every contractor, or employee of such contractor, upon entering the grounds of a state correctional institution, shall be subject to screening to prevent the conveyance of drugs of abuse into the institution.

...No articles or supplies manufactured under this section or sections 5147.12 to 5147.22 of the Revised Code by the labor of convicts of state correctional institutions shall be purchased from any other source for the state or its institutions unless the department of administrative services, in consultation with the department of rehabilitation and correction, determines that the articles or supplies cannot be furnish...

...y person. Work performed under a work-release program authorized under section 5147.28 of the Revised Code is not in violation of this section. This section does not apply to any person serving a periodic sentence under division (B) of section 2929.26 of the Revised Code, insofar as that person is engaged between periods of confinement in the person's regular trade or occupation for the support of the person or th...