Lyneal Wainwright
740-382-5781 (Fax: 740-387-8736)
drc.mci@odrc.state.oh.us
For US Postal: PO Box 57 Marion, OH 43301-0057; For FedEx or UPS: 940 Marion-Williamsport Road Marion, OH 43302
Marion Correctional Institution is committed to recruiting dedicated and resourceful volunteers to assist in reentry efforts by providing services to offenders. For additional information on these opportunities or the application process, please contact Michelle Turner at 740-382-5781, ext. 2224 or via email.
The Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed in 2003 to protect individuals from prison rape. Click here for more information.
Click here to view a complete listing of available programming/services (coming soon).
Written correspondence to inmates must include the inmate's name and number on the envelope and be addressed to PO Box 57 Marion, OH 43301. If you are sending through UPS or FedEx, please use the physical address above.
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Marion Correctional Institution maintains video visiting kiosks in every general population housing unit. The hours of availability for video visits are as follows: 8:30 AM – 10:00AM and 12:00PM – 3:30PM. Visits are 30 minutes in duration; however, an additional 30 minutes can be requested if there is no one scheduled at the same kiosk immediately after the conclusion of the initial video visit. An approved visitor is defined as: a visitor that submitted an application for visitation, processing has been completed, and approval by institutional staff may request a video visit.
Approved visitors must create an account and register with JPay. When family members register to have a video visit, they are prompted by JPay through a series of steps to achieve their visit. Video visits must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance of the time that they are requesting.
Approved visitors may visit www.jpay.com for additional information
Visiting is available 7 days a week by reservation only. Reservations can be made by calling 740-382-5781, selection Option #2, during the hours of 10:30a.m. and 3:00 p.m.; by completing the reservation form while on a visit and either mailing the form back or checking with visiting staff at the conclusion of the visit; or by emailing your request to drc.visitationmci@odrc.state.oh.us (please give up to 48 hours for a response).
Reservations can be made for the next day up to sixty days from today's date (no same day reservations are permitted). Also, all in state/out of state visitors are required to make reservations (walk ins will not be accepted due to security concerns).
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Periodic educational, recreational, community-building events which bring together young men and those who support them to explore their "IT."
Mentorship focusing on self transcendence, communal self-awareness and introspection.
Kairos is an encounter with the Christian Community at a retreat weekend. It continues with a six-month mentoring program after the initial weekend.
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.
A peer led group designed to challenge the negative principles and values of a criminal lifestyle.
Food service manager apprenticeship that includes daily restaurant business operation.
Pastoral training institute.
Housing unit providing reentry programming and job skill opportunities.
Barista training program that includes coffee business operation.
Recovery Services modified therapeutic community.
LGBTI initiatives.
MCI specific and community recycling initiative.