Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Grafton Correctional Institution
Address
2500 South Avon Beldon 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 | 192 | ||||||
| Total Staff | 351 | ||||||
| Projected FY10 GRF Budget |
$29,028,511 | ||||||
| (subject to monthly review and adjustment) | |||||||
| Daily Cost Per Inmate | $60.19 | ||||||
| Population as of 10/09 | 1,534 | ||||||
| Black Inmates | 785 | ||||||
| White Inmates | 657 | ||||||
| Hispanic Inmates | 75 | ||||||
| Other Inmates | 17 | ||||||
| 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
- Seven days per week including holidays; 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Visiting hours are subject to change without notice. Please call the institution to verify visiting hours before planning a visit.
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
- Creating Opportunities for Positive Endeavors (C.O.P.E.) is a six month pre-release program designed to assist offenders in strengthening bonds with their family and community and provide the necessary tools to succeed upon their release from prison. The focus of the C.O.P.E. program is to address the needs of offenders by averting or intervening in the return to security threat group (gang) involvement. This program provides a positive environment in which offenders with similar obstacles can work together to improve their lives.
- 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
- Manufacture leather and metallic cord, ribbons, lace and seasonal bows
Community Service
- Dope is for Dopes
- Heart to Heart
- Adopt-A-School
- Crocheting/Quilting
- Highway Litter Pickup
- Service Learning
- Ohio Reads
- Quilting
- Kids in Need
- Love-A-Pup
Academic
- Adult Basic Education
- Pre-GED
- GED
- Ashland University
Vocational
- Welding
- Machine shop
- Auto mechanics
- Horticulture
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. 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.