ODRC – Northeast Reintegration Center (NERC) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 216-771-6460

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at ODRC – Northeast Reintegration Center (NERC) located at 2675 East 30th St in Cleveland, OH are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

ODRC – Northeast Reintegration Center – Visitation
ODRC – Northeast Reintegration Center – FAQ
ODRC – Northeast Reintegration Center – Reentry

Unique Programs

Cage Your Rage

Cage Your Rage program focuses on helping the offenders with anger issues stemming from life circumstances. The offenders are taught coping skills, thinking skills, and how to think before they react.

Faith Based Reintegration

The Faith Based Reintegration Program concentrates on the offenders, their family members, sponsors, and mentors. The program is facilitated by NERC staff and local religious volunteers. The program provides 3 semesters of programming centered on the spiritual, emotional, family, and social needs for the offender. The program participants will complete 3 programs per semester, attend 2 religious services per week, and develop a 3 year reentry plan. Throughout the year program participants have the opportunity to unite with their family in family worship gatherings, fine arts celebrations, and academic graduations.

Military Preparation

The Military Program is about structure, discipline, and stability. Leadership and teamwork also play a vital role in the program. The drills and physical training keep the mind and body fit and healthy. By instilling core values, it helps the recruits be respectful of peers and staff. They are taught leadership skills that apply to their daily lives. The offenders learn to develop courage to overcome any obstacles including the obstacle that brought them to prison.

Money Smarts

The Money Smarts program is a class about the “basics” involved in money management. Participants will learn how to budget expenses and money; ways to decrease spending/increase income; the importance in saving money, how to choose a credit card, how to responsibly use a credit card and how to obtain a credit to build or repair poor credit.

Mosaic

The Mosaic Program is an innovative therapeutic residential trauma treatment program designed to help women make connections between their traumatic and abusive histories, their addiction and incarceration. The program model encompasses empirically validated and gender responsive approaches to treatment. Mosaic is partially funded by a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance in cooperation with Recovery Resources, a full service community mental health/addiction treatment agency in Cleveland.

Responsible Family

The Responsible Family Life Skills program focuses on several different components. The components are as follows: getting to know yourself, communication, sharing and interaction, the impact of crime, community justice, repairing family community, adolescence and pop culture influence, taking responsibility, dynamics of family and culture, and morality.

Roots of Success

The Roots of Success program is an empowering environmental literacy and job readiness curriculum for corrections and re-entry programs. This program helps institutions achieve their sustainability goals and prepare offenders for employment opportunities in the green economy upon re-entry into society.

Thinking For Change

The Thinking for Change program is an integrated cognitive behavioral change for offenders that includes cognitive restructuring, social skills development, and development of problem solving skills. It’s a continuum of interventions to address the cognitive, social and emotional needs of the offender population.

Victims Awareness

The Victim Awareness Program is designed to allow offenders to participate in and learn the effects of crime on victims. The program includes activities such as thought provoking homework assignments and an opportunity to speak directly with victims of crime and ask the questions of how crime has affected their lives. During this intensive program we explore facets ranging from various crime aspects, thinking errors and apology letter to the female cultural barriers, media and community impacts.

Moving On

Moving On is an intervention program specifically for women who are involved with the criminal justice system. The overarching goal of this program is to assist women in mobilizing and developing personal and social resources to reduce the risk of future criminal behavior. This program can be offered on an individual or group basis to women who are detained or living in the community. Moving On ascribes to two philosophical and overlapping tenets. First, Moving On is a gender-responsive program that is based on theory and research concerned with women. Second, the program aims not only at reducing criminal behavior but also increasing the health and well-being of women, their families, and the community.

Offender Programs

Community Services

• University Settlement
• Under the Wing Dog Program
• Kitten Crazy
• U Lucky Dog Day Care and Grooming
• Butterfly Program with the Natural History Museum
• Pilot Dog Program
• ODOT Partnership
• Cleveland APL Dog Program
• Berea Animal Rescue

Academic

• Adult Basic Education (ABLE)
• Pre-GED
• GED

Vocational Programs

• Horticulture
• Administrative Technology
• Advance Job Training (YSU)

Northeast Reintegration Center is a minimum security prison located in Cleveland Ohio. It houses approximately 605minimum and medium security female inmates even though Northeast Reintegration Centerwas constructed to have a maximum capacity of 350 inmates. All inmates who are housed here are required to sign an agreement to participate in extensive rehabilitation programing ranging from academic courses tomental health treatment. Northeast Reintegration Center was also rated one of the safest facilities in all of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections.

The main purpose of Northeast Reintegration Center is to prepare female inmates for a successful transition from custody back to society. Inmates who do not possess a diploma will be required to take adult basic education classes and earn a GED. Additional vocational courses in horticulture and administrative technologies are available. Offenders may also participate in a faith based reintegration program that allows inmates to be with their families for worship services and focuses on the emotional, spiritual and familial aspects of the inmate.

visitation Info

ODRC – Northeast Reintegration Center – Visitation

The Northeast Reintegration Center has a visitation by reservation policy.  Visiting hours and days are as follows:

Saturdays, Sundays, and Tuesdays

• 1st session – 8 am to 12:30 pm
• 2nd session – 1 pm to 5:30 pm

Mondays

• 1st session – 9 am to 1:30 pm
• 2nd session – 2 pm to 6:30 pm

Reservations

Reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance to visit an offender.

• Visitors can make a reservation by calling 216-771-6460, ext. 2010, on the following days ONLY:
  • Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, between the hours of 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
• Visitors may also make a reservation for their next visit with the desk officer at the conclusion of a visit with an offender.

If visitors need to cancel a previously made reservation they may do so by calling 216-771-6460, ext. 2010 at least 48 hours in advance, and the offender will not be charged for a visit.

Visitors may only make a reservation for one session, one inmate at a time unless the offenders are immediate family members and at the discretion and prior approval of the managing officer.

Visitors must be on the offender's approved visiting list.  Attorneys and clergy also need to call ahead in order to visit.  Attorneys should identify themselves as such so that a private room can be reserved if it is wanted or needed.

Visiting hours are subject to change without notice.  Please call the institution to verify visiting hours before planning a visit. 

Video Visitation

NERC permits video visitation using the JPay kiosks that have been installed in housing units throughout our institutions. It is designed to increase visiting opportunities and reduce burdens on family and friends, especially those traveling long distances. Video visits are available in general population housing units, in the morning, afternoon and evening, seven days a week. Video visits may be restricted in limited privilege housing units. Our institution sets a minimum of 3 hours in the morning, 3 hours in the afternoon and 3 hours in the evening where video visits will be available, for a total of 9 hours each day. Please review specific information available on the Jpay web site or contact the institution for more details.