ODRC – Pickaway Correctional Institution (PCI)

ODRC – Pickaway Correctional Institution (PCI) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 614-877-4362

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Pickaway Correctional located at 11781 St Rte 762 in Orient, 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.

PCI is a mixed custody state facility primarily of minimum and medium custody inmates. In addition, Pickaway Correctional is responsible for caring for chronically ill offenders through the Frazier Health Center located on institutional grounds. The current population of this prison is approximately 2,143 inmates. PCI operates five Ohio Prison Industry shops that are a modular furniture shop, a print shop, a meat processing center, a beverage processing center, and a warehouse. These Industries employ many inmates who are also provided a source of revenue and savings for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Inmates have identified C and D units at Pickaway Correctional Institution as the worst units to be incarcerated in. Offenders have access to mental health and addiction services including the OASIS program which stands for "Our Awareness of Self Increases Success". Additionally, inmates can take advanced job training through Sinclair Community College, which offers certificates in food production, bakery specialist, and many other vocational areas.

Unique Programs

OASIS Therapeutic Community – The Oasis Therapeutic Community (TC) is a collaborative effort between the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and the Pickaway Correctional Institution servicing male offenders with substance abuse problems. OASIS stands for “Our Awareness of Self Increases Success” and the name was created by its first residents. TC focuses the residents on right living in a pro-social community and recovery through a shared therapeutic structure that includes communal meetings, encounter groups, education, organized recreation, and the like. There are 2 paths in OASIS: one is an Intensive Program Prison model that runs 4 months at PCI and 3 months in the community. The other is a long term program running 9-12 months in the institution. Residents are held to a high degree of accountability. Staff are there to help guide and assist, but the residents are the primary role models holding each other to a high standard. TC has proven very effective in helping offenders “go home to stay”.

OPI Print Shop – The OPI Print Shop is a full service "sheet fed" printing facility. It employs offenders in the production of official forms, business cards, brochures, training manuals, flyers, bindery, quick copy digital production, typesetting, quality assurance, inventory and packaging.

Sinclair Community College – The Sinclair Community College began offering Advanced Job Training courses during fall of 2012. Certificate offerings are designed to increase employability upon release from incarceration. Certificates range from one semester to three semesters in duration and include the following options: Food Production Specialist, Bakery Specialist, Pastry Specialist, Social Service Assistant, Communication Specialist, User Support Technician, Re-entry Preparation, Entrepreneurship and Business Foundations, and Supply Chain Technician. Courses are taught by Sinclair Community College faculty both traditionally and via distance learning. Students receive the same caliber of instruction in the institutional setting that they would if they were attending classes at any of Sinclair's campuses. The students are further supported by a twenty computer lab where they can work on assignments and hone their computer skills in preparation for their re-entry into society.

Reading Room – 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.

Offender Programs

Community Services

• Crayons to Computers
• Pilot Dogs

Academic

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

Industries

• OPI Modular Furniture
• DRC Meat Processing Career Center
• OPI Print Shop
• OPI Warehouse

Additional Programs

• Adoptable Dog Program

Career-Technical (Vocational) Programs

• Administrative Office Technology

visitation Info

ODRC – Pickaway Correctional Institution – Visitation

Visitation is available on the following dates and times:

• Monday   8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. 
• Thursday  8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. 
• Friday  8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. 
• Saturday and Sunday 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• The visiting lobby opens at 7:45 a.m. and processing begins promptly at 8:00 a.m.  Visitors must be processed no later than 2:00 p.m. on any given day.

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

Process Changes:

• Visiting reservations are required for all visiting sessions morning and afternoon to include weekends, Holidays; (Closed on Tuesday, Wednesday, and the following Holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day).

• Morning visitation will begin at 8:00a.m., all visitors must arrive before 9:45a.m. to attend the morning session and the morning session will end at 11:30a.m.

• Afternoon visiting session will begin at 12:00p.m., all visitors must arrive before 2:00p.m. to attend the afternoon visiting session.  The afternoon visiting session will end at 3:30p.m.

• All photo tokens purchased for visitation photos will be done through vending machines in the main entry building.  Once inside the visiting area the visitors will deposit the photo token into the photo token locked box that’s located at the visiting Officers podium.

Reservation Process:

• Visiting reservations are accepted sixty (60) days in advance, and a maximum of two (2) individual request per week per visitor.

• Visitors will be required to schedule all visits at a minimum of seven (7) days in advance.

• Each inmate’s approved visitor will be allowed to schedule only four (4) visits per month.

• Approved visitors can schedule a morning session and an afternoon session for the same date and will count for two (2) visits toward the visitors four (4) visits per month.

• Cancellation of visits must be done with seventy-two (72) hours prior to the scheduled visit.

• Two (2) no shows for scheduled visits will result in forfeiture of visitation scheduling for thirty (30) days.

How to make Reservations for visitation:

• Reservations should be made by emailing the following address, [email protected], or by mail to: Visiting Office; Pickaway Correctional Institution, 11781 State Route 762 Orient, Ohio 43146

• Information needed to schedule visitation reservations:  Adult visitors, full first and last names.

• (Children under 18 or younger DO NOT GIVE NAME, please just list as minor and bring correct documentation).

• Inmates last name institution inmate number, what session you are requesting AM or PM (all day if eligible) and the dates you are requesting to visit.

• For minor children, we need the birth certificate, custody paperwork or Minor authorization entrance form (if required).  Visitors without the correct paperwork will not be allowed to visit.

• Example of Information required to make reservation for visitation:  Jane Doe + 2 minors to see inmate Doe #A012345 on 4/3/2016 for the PM session.

• Visitation Officers will reply to your email within seventy-two (72) hours excluding: closed on Tuesday, Wednesday, Holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day).

• Proof of out of state residency should be presented along with out of state I.D.

Video Visitation

The Pickaway Correctional Institution maintains video visiting kiosks in every general population housing unit. The hours of availability for video visits are as follows: 8:00 AM – 11:00AM; 1:00PM – 4:00PM; and 6:00PM – 9:00PM.  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. Approved visitors may request a video visit.   Approved visitors must create an account and register with JPay. When approved visitors register to have a video visit, they are prompted by JPay through a series of steps to achieve their visit.