Ohio Code 5120.331 – Annual report of inmate time served and releases
(A) Not later than the first day of April of each year, the department of rehabilitation and correction shall prepare an annual report covering the preceding calendar year that does all of the following:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5120.331
- imprisonment: means being imprisoned under a sentence imposed for an offense or serving a term of imprisonment, prison term, jail term, term of local incarceration, or other term under a sentence imposed for an offense in an institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction, a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, a minimum security jail, a community-based correctional facility, or another facility described or referred to in section 2929. See Ohio Code 1.05
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
(1) Indicates the total number of persons sentenced to any institution, division, or place under its control and management who are delivered within that calendar year to its custody and control;
(2) Indicates the total number of persons who, during that calendar year, were released from a prison term on any of the following bases:
(a) On judicial release under section 2929.20 of the Revised Code;
(b) On transitional control under section 2967.26 of the Revised Code;
(c) As a result of successfully completing a risk reduction sentence under section 5120.036 of the Revised Code;
(d) On parole;
(e) Due to the expiration of the stated prison term imposed;
(f) On any basis not described in divisions (A)(2)(a) to (e) of this section.
(3) Lists each offense, by Revised Code section number and, if applicable, by designated name, for which at least one person who was released from a prison term in that calendar year was serving a prison term at the time of release;
(4) For each offense included in the list described in division (A)(3) of this section, indicates all of the following:
(a) The total number of persons released from a prison term in that calendar year who were serving a prison term for that offense at the time of release;
(b) The shortest, longest, and average prison term that had been imposed for that offense upon the persons described in division (A)(4)(a) of this section and that they were serving at the time of release;
(c) The shortest, longest, and average period of imprisonment actually served by the persons described in division (A)(4)(a) of this section under a prison term that had been imposed for that offense upon them and that they were serving at the time of release;
(d) The total number of persons released from a prison term in that calendar year under each of the bases for release set forth in division (A)(2) of this section who were serving a prison term for that offense at the time of release;
(e) The shortest, longest, and average prison term that had been imposed for that offense upon the persons in each category described in division (A)(4)(d) of this section and that they were serving at the time of release;
(f) The shortest, longest, and average period of imprisonment actually served by the persons in each category described in division (A)(4)(d) of this section under a prison term that had been imposed for that offense upon them and that they were serving at the time of release.
(B) No report prepared under division (A) of this section shall identify or enable the identification of any person released from a prison term in the preceding calendar year.
(C) Each annual report prepared under division (A) of this section shall be distributed to each member of the general assembly.
(D) As used in this section, “prison term” and “stated prison term” have the same meanings as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code.