CRC Departures Need Context
Correctional Reception Center is an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction reception prison. It is not Pickaway County Jail. CRC's main role is to receive and classify men entering ODRC before a longer-term placement. That mission makes a changed institution routine and makes the word “release” easy to misuse. If an offender detail moves from CRC to Pickaway Correctional Institution or another state prison, physical custody continues under ODRC.
A person can also leave CRC through an actual legal release path. The public detail may reflect judicial release, parole or post-release control, transitional control, sentence completion, or another qualified status. Death is also a released qualification found in some ODRC records and must never be restated as community release. The safest description names the exact status and the next custodian or supervision channel.
| Record change | Likely meaning | Next check |
|---|---|---|
| CRC replaced by another prison | ODRC transfer | New institution and current status |
| Qualified released status | State custody ended in the stated manner | Court, parole, or discharge record |
| APA supervision | State supervision after prison may apply | Supervision dates and office |
| No matching public record | Identity or system may be wrong | Recheck identifiers and custodian |
Check CRC Release Records
Open the ODRC Offender Search. Search by ODRC number for the most precise match. A name search can work, but compare date of birth, admission date, offense, docket, and committing county before opening a record. The committing county is the criminal jurisdiction. The institution is the place of state custody. A CRC address in Pickaway County does not mean the underlying case arose there.
Use this process to trace the departure:
- Match the ODRC number or at least two identifiers beyond the name.
- Confirm CRC appears in the relevant custody episode.
- Read the full status and any qualifier.
- Check whether another state institution now appears.
- Read the sentence, expected or parole-eligibility field, and supervision details.
- Compare the docket or request ODRC records when the public detail is unclear.
The Pickaway County release search explains how a prior county booking, court order, and later ODRC record fit together.
CRC Release Date Fields
The public ODRC detail uses the combined label Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date. ODRC defines it as a projected release date or a date pending parole consideration. Those are not the same legal event. On an eligible sentence, the date can mark a chance for Parole Board review. On another sentence, it may be a calculated projected date. Neither is proof that someone actually left CRC that day.
Read the field with status, admission date, institution, sentence components, jail-time credit, committing county, docket, next parole review, and any transitional-control or supervision fields. The displayed date can move after credit correction, earned credit, sentence recalculation, court modification, parole action, a new sentence, violation, or another legal event. A historical released detail may still show a calculated date from before the actual release.
- Reception
- The intake and classification stage within state custody.
- Transfer
- A move to another institution while the same custodian retains control.
- Parole eligibility
- The point when an eligible sentence may receive Board consideration.
- Discharge
- The end of the recorded sentence or supervision obligation.
Pickaway Transfer to CRC
A common local sequence begins at Pickaway County Jail. After a felony sentence, the sheriff may transfer the person to CRC for ODRC reception. The name then drops from the sheriff's current roster and appears in the state system. That is release from the county custodian, but it is not release from confinement. The sheriff record should identify the transfer or destination, and the Common Pleas sentencing entry supplies the authority.
Later movement from CRC to PCI or another Ohio prison is another transfer. ODRC's institution and status fields should show continued state custody. If the research question concerns the end of the Pickaway jail booking, use the sheriff release record. If it concerns the end of the prison term, use ODRC and the sentencing court. Mixing those two release events creates a false date and destination.
Note: A Pickaway County Jail roster disappearance followed by a CRC record is evidence of changed custody, not a person returning to the community.
Request CRC Release Records
ODRC Central Records is the proper records route for a CRC discharge or transfer. Write to Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Attn: Central Records, P.O. Box 430, Columbus, OH 43216. Give the ODRC number, full name, date of birth, and the period at CRC. Ask for the existing transfer, release, or discharge record; release date and type; destination; public supervision information; and releasable sentence calculation or jail-time-credit record.
Ohio Administrative Code Rule 5120-9-49 addresses public inspection and copies for specific ODRC records, subject to exemptions. It provides no-cost inspection during regular business hours or copies at actual cost within a reasonable period. Ask for records the agency keeps rather than a custom account of what happened. If a field appears wrong, identify it, give the ODRC number, and cite the court order or source entry that supports review.
Attn: Central Records
P.O. Box 430
Columbus, OH 43216
Use the ODRC number in every request
Victim Services notification enrollment and VINE alerts are separate from a public-record request. They can provide notice of specified events, but they do not replace the transfer or discharge document held by ODRC.
CRC Facility Release Facts
Correctional Reception Center is at 11271 State Route 762 in Orient, with mailing address P.O. Box 300, Orient, Ohio 43146. Its official PREA audit confirms the state-prison classification and lists a designated capacity of 1,562. Capacity is not a count of people released. It also does not show how many current residents came from Pickaway County courts.
The facility's reception function is the most useful fact for release research. CRC marks entry and classification within ODRC. The current offender detail follows the person after placement, so a search should not be limited to the facility name. Use the ODRC number. It remains the stable key when the prison changes.
11271 State Route 762
Orient, OH 43146
Mail: P.O. Box 300, Orient, OH 43146
Pickaway Prison Missions Differ
CRC and Pickaway Correctional Institution sit near each other but serve different state roles. CRC handles reception and classification. PCI is a general adult prison placement. The local proximity can make a search look county-based when it is really statewide. A person at either institution may have been sentenced by any Ohio county, and a Pickaway County sentence may be served elsewhere.
Use the committing-county and docket fields to tie the offender to a court. Use institution and status to trace physical state custody. Use the release qualification, court entry, parole record, or Central Records response to prove the legal outcome. These separate fields prevent two common errors: assuming every CRC departure is freedom and assuming every person held in Pickaway County has a Pickaway criminal case.
This adjacent-institution distinction is the facility-specific Section 19 angle. A new arrival may enter ODRC through CRC, complete intake and classification, and then move to PCI or another prison. That sequence can create several location changes without one community release. The stable ODRC number follows the person through those moves. For that reason, a facility-name search should become a person-and-status search as soon as the correct record is found.
When a record still names CRC, it may describe the reception stage rather than a long-term placement. When another institution appears, compare the status and admission history before reaching a conclusion. ODRC Central Records can supply an existing transfer or discharge record if the public detail lacks enough history to distinguish the two. That request should name the custody period and ODRC number.
Verify CRC Actual Release
An actual release is established after the projected stage. Look for a qualified released status, judicial-release entry, APA supervision start, Parole Board action, or discharge record. A future date alone remains subject to legal and administrative change. A screenshot is also fixed in time, while the live ODRC detail can update.
When records conflict, note the time of each check. Reopen the ODRC detail, compare the latest court entry, and ask Central Records. Phrase the conclusion at the level the evidence supports: transferred from CRC, placed at another ODRC institution, released under a named qualification, or discharged from the recorded sentence. That precision preserves the difference between departure from one building and release from state custody.