Effective: September 29, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 – 131st General Assembly 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 […]
Effective: January 1, 2004 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 124th General Assembly The labor or time of any person confined in any workhouse or jail shall not be let, farmed out, given, sold, or contracted to any person. Work performed under a work-release program authorized under section 5147.28 of the Revised Code is not […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Persons confined in any workhouse or jail may be employed in the manufacture of articles used by any department or public institution belonging to or controlled by the political subdivisions supporting or contributing to the support of any such workhouse or jail […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board or officer in charge of any workhouse or jail may provide, prepare, and procure machinery, power, and shop room for the manufacture of the articles specified in section 5147.13 of the Revised Code, and may employ such persons as may […]
Effective: November 8, 1990 Latest Legislation: House Bill 51, House Bill 588 – 118th General Assembly Except for articles manufactured in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, no articles other than those specified in section 5147.13 of the Revised Code shall be manufactured by the labor of prisoners […]
Effective: September 28, 1973 Latest Legislation: House Bill 200 – 110th General Assembly The board of county commissioners may purchase or lease beds of limestone, or other suitable road-building material, after such material is approved by the director of transportation as suitable for the construction of roads, or such board may lease and operate a […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the board of county commissioners has secured property and completed arrangements for the working of its prisoners as provided in section 5147.16 of the Revised Code, a court or magistrate may sentence persons convicted of offenses, the punishment of which is, […]
Effective: September 3, 1970 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 460 – 108th General Assembly In counties which have secured property and completed arrangements for the working of their convicts, the board of county commissioners, whenever practicable, shall cause to be worked as provided in sections 5147.01 to 5147.26, inclusive, of the Revised Code, all convicts sentenced […]
Effective: November 8, 1990 Latest Legislation: House Bill 51, House Bill 588 – 118th General Assembly Except for prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, prisoners sentenced to hard labor under section 5147.18 of the Revised Code shall be under the control of the board of […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor under section 5147.17 of the Revised Code, becomes sick or incapacitated for work, or the board of county commissioners finds it impracticable to employ him, the prisoner shall be taken forthwith before the […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly 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 […]
Effective: March 31, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 24 – 133rd General Assembly 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 […]
Effective: October 6, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 571 – 120th General Assembly 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 […]
Effective: October 16, 1996 Latest Legislation: House Bill 480 – 121st General Assembly (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 […]
Effective: June 19, 1978 Latest Legislation: House Bill 398 – 112th General Assembly (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 […]
Effective: January 1, 2004 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 124th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “prisoner” means any person confined in the county jail in lieu of bail while awaiting trial, any person committed to jail for nonpayment of a fine, or any person sentenced by a court to the jail. […]
