Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Pickaway Correctional Institution
Address
P. O. Box 209
11781 St. Route 762
Orient, Ohio 43146
Phone
(614) 877-4362
Fax
(614) 877-4514
Video Tour
Institutional Information
| Date Opened | 1984 | ||||||||
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| Total Acreage | 1,803 | ||||||||
| Accreditation Status | Yes | ||||||||
| Total Security Staff | 261 | ||||||||
| Total Staff | 534 | ||||||||
| Projected FY10 GRF Budget |
$55,403,779 | ||||||||
| (subject to monthly review and adjustment) | |||||||||
| Daily Cost Per Inmate | $70.79 | ||||||||
| Population as of 11/09 | 2,210 | ||||||||
| Black Inmates | 802 | ||||||||
| White Inmates | 1,384 | ||||||||
| Other Inmates | 24 | ||||||||
| 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
- Closed Tuesday and Wednesday
- Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day
- All visits by reservation only
- Split Sessions: 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (no admittance after 10:00 a.m.)
- or 12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (no admittance after 2:30 p.m.)
- Reservation Number - Call 614-877-6955.
- Reservation telephone operation hours from 8:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
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
- Hocking College offers advanced job training courses to all qualified inmates. The courses are designed to give the students skills that are needed to reenter the job force upon release. Hocking College offers courses in business management as well as food service management. The courses include several culinary arts classes in which the students get practical experience in a kitchen setting. The students often volunteer to serve and prepare food for institutional functions.
- OPI Print Shop is a full service "sheet fed" printing facility. It employs offenders in the production of official forms, business cards, brochures, training manuals, flyers, bindery, quick copy digital production, typesetting, quality assurance, inventory and packaging.
Inmate Programs
Community Service
- Brush and tree clearing for Fayette County
- Renovation at Eagles Nest Horse Farm
- General labor and clerical work at Statehouse
- Litter pick up for Ohio Department of Transportation
- Laundry for Friends of the Homeless and Holy Rosary Family Center
- Construction of playground equipment for Mt. Sterling Day Care clinic
- Renovation of stadium for Whetstone and Miami Trace High Schools
- Park renovation for Grove City Recreation Department
Industries
- State vehicle service center
- OPI Modular furniture
- OPI Print Shop
- DRC Meat Processing Career Center
- OPI Beverage Processing Center
- OPI Warehouse
Academic
- Literacy unit
- Pre-GED
- Adult Basic Education
- GED
- Hocking College
Vocational
- Commercial art
- Administrative office technology
- Prison News Network
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.