Check Southeastern Correctional Releases

Southeastern Correctional Release Paths

Southeastern Correctional Institution, often shortened to SCI, is an adult state prison operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. It is not a Fairfield County Sheriff's facility. A prisoner may have been sentenced by any Ohio county and later housed in Lancaster. Likewise, a Fairfield County sentence can be served at another ODRC prison. Geography alone does not identify the right record.

An SCI prisoner may leave confinement through sentence expiration, parole for an eligible sentence, judicial release ordered by the sentencing court, transitional control, or another statutory route. State post-release control or parole may then begin under the Adult Parole Authority. A move from SCI to another prison is only an institution transfer. It does not end ODRC custody.

Confirm Southeastern Correctional Release

The official ODRC Offender Search is the main public verification route. It covers people incarcerated in Ohio prisons, under Department supervision, or judicially released. It is much broader than the Fairfield County Jail population. Search by ODRC number when possible. Otherwise, use the last name, optional first name, and a status filter. Too many fields can hide a valid match.

1. Enter the ODRC offender number or a broad name search.
2. Open the matching detail and compare date of birth, offense, docket, and committing county.
3. Read the status before relying on the institution or expected-date fields.
4. Review release/parole detail, supervision dates, APA office, and hearing result when shown.
5. Confirm a new event with Ohio VINE and the sentencing court when the legal basis matters.

Southeastern Release Record Fields

An ODRC detail can remain useful after release. It may retain the offender photo and number, identity fields, admission date, offenses, Ohio Revised Code sections, sentence-effective date, jail-time credit, committing county, docket, judge, aggregate sentence, expected release or parole-eligibility date, POA/PRD date, release detail, supervision dates, APA office, and latest hearing result. The combination gives more context than a single custody label.

The fields must still be read with care. County of commitment is the sentencing source, not necessarily the person's current location. Residential county refers to a recorded residence or supervision field. ODRC warns that records may not contain a complete sentence list, and a displayed period of supervision can relate to an earlier offense. A name or photograph alone is not enough to resolve identity. Compare the offender number and docket before treating two records as the same case.

Southeastern Expected Release Dates

ODRC calls its combined public field Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date. The official definitions describe it as a projected release date or a date pending parole consideration. For a definite sentence, it may approximate the expected end after applied rules and credit. For a parole-eligible sentence, the field can mark eligibility rather than an approved gate date.

Ohio sentence structures differ. Earned credit under R.C. 2967.194 applies only to eligible terms and can be provisional, denied, or withdrawn. The stated ceiling does not create a universal rule that everyone leaves after the same share of a term. Covered non-life indefinite sentences under R.C. 2967.271 can continue beyond a minimum after statutory findings, though never beyond the maximum. Parole eligibility under R.C. 2967.13 is not the same as a parole grant. Judicial release under R.C. 2929.20 requires a court decision.

Jail-time credit corrections, consecutive or concurrent sentence changes, mandatory portions, Board decisions, earned credit, and judicial release can all change what the public record shows. The Inmate Release Date explanation separates those rules without trying to calculate an individual's sentence.

Southeastern Parole Release Review

For a parole-eligible SCI prisoner, the ODRC search accepts the next Parole Board hearing month in YYYYMM format. An individual detail can show the latest hearing or review type, result, next month, and POA/PRD field. A result such as continued hearing is not a release. A transitional-control recommendation is not the same as physical departure. Even a parole grant must be read with the applicable date and current custody status.

The Ohio Parole Board operates within ODRC. Correspondence can be sent to Ohio Parole Board, Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, 4545 Fisher Road, Suite D, Columbus, OH 43228. Include the offender name and number. For post-release supervision, the APA office printed on the current offender detail is more reliable than assuming that location follows the prison or sentencing county.

Parole

Conditional release for an eligible sentence after Board action.

Post-release control

APA supervision required after designated prison sentences.

Judicial release

A sentencing-court reduction of an eligible prison term.

Discharge

The end of the relevant custody or supervision obligation.

Southeastern Release Record Corrections

Compare a release status with the sentencing court docket. A judicial-release journal entry supplies the legal authority. For parole, the ODRC hearing fields and Board information explain the decision. Ohio VINE adds a custody-event notice but should not be the only proof. It may lag, and its event text may not supply the full sentence reason.

Questions or correction requests go to ODRC Central Records. Include the offender number, full name, date of birth, disputed field, and a court entry or other official source supporting the correction. Ask about the record that exists rather than asking staff to perform new legal analysis.

ODRC controls SCI offender data. Fairfield County Sheriff records staff cannot correct a prison sentence field, APA status, or ODRC release type.

Fairfield Release System Differences

Fairfield County's locally distinctive problem is that Lancaster has both a county jail and a state prison. A name can leave the Sheriff's local system because the person was sent into ODRC, which means custody became more formal rather than ending. At the same time, an SCI prisoner may have no Fairfield County case at all because the commitment came from elsewhere in Ohio.

Begin with the custodian. A local booking belongs to Fairfield County Jail, Ohio VINE, and the appropriate local court. A state-prison sentence belongs to ODRC, VINE, the committing court, and the Parole Board when applicable. A federal matter belongs to BOP, USMS, or the federal court. The same-county label must never be used to blend these systems. Each result must retain the status date and agency that supplied it.

Southeastern Correctional Release Contact

Southeastern Correctional Institution is at 5900 B.I.S. Road, Lancaster, Ohio 43130. Current facility information is available through the ODRC facility directory. The directory is appropriate for current institution operations. Release-status and sentence questions still belong to the offender detail and Central Records.

A facility name on an old record is not current proof. Read status and the current institution together. If the person was moved, contact the receiving institution or custodian. If the record shows APA supervision, use the named APA office. If it shows release with no supervision detail, compare the release entry with the sentencing court and request correction from ODRC when a field appears wrong.

VINE can add a recent event, but ODRC remains the record source. Search the same person with the offender number to reduce a name-match error, then note which agency reported each fact. The prison directory confirms the institution and current operational contact. The offender detail addresses custody and sentence fields. Central Records handles record questions or correction evidence. The sentencing court supplies a judicial-release order, sentence change, or jail-time-credit correction. The Parole Board fields address parole review. Keeping that source trail intact prevents an alert, an old prison name, or a projected date from being repeated as a final release fact.

Note: SCI is a statewide prison in Fairfield County, not a county jail serving only Fairfield County cases.