Chillicothe Correctional Institution Release Records

Chillicothe Institution Release Outcomes

Chillicothe Correctional Institution, often shortened to CCI, is an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction state prison. It is not run by the Ross County Sheriff's Office. People held there are state prisoners, not ordinary county-jail detainees, and their individual records belong in the ODRC Offender Search. The county roster has no role in confirming whether a CCI prisoner remains confined or has completed a prison release.

Leaving the named institution is not always release. ODRC can transfer a person from CCI to another prison while state incarceration continues. A true prison release may appear as APA SUPERVISION, RELEASED - Judicial Release, or another precise released status. The detail can also show a release date, supervision start, period of supervision, residential county, and APA office. Each field has a narrow meaning and should be read with the current status.

Confirm a CCI Release

Search with the ODRC number whenever it is known. It is less likely than a name to select the wrong person. A name search should be checked against date of birth, committing county, docket, offenses, admission information, and last institution. Do not stop at the result list. Open the individual detail and read the exact current status, release fields, sentence information, supervision fields, and hearing result where present.

1. Open ODRC Offender Search and enter the offender number, or search by name with only reliable filters.
2. Match the date of birth, docket, committing county, and institution before interpreting any release information.
3. Read the exact status. An INCARCERATED record at another prison means transfer, not release.
4. For an APA record, review supervision start, period, residential county, and APA office alongside POA/PRD.
5. For a judicial-release result, check the sentencing-court docket for the order and community-control terms.
6. Request the retained ODRC release record if the public detail is absent, ambiguous, or no longer searchable.

An expected date or parole-eligibility date is not proof that the person left the gate. The public field is labeled Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date because it can serve different sentence types. Eligibility allows consideration. It does not promise release. A favorable hearing result can also precede the physical release while conditions and a later POA date remain outstanding.

CCI Release Date Fields

ODRC's official field definitions are essential when dates appear close together. Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date can be a projected end date for one sentence and a first consideration date for another. POA/PRD is the earliest release date on APA supervision. Earliest Possible Transfer Date concerns transitional control. TC/TT Sentence Expiration concerns a transitional-control or treatment-transfer placement. None should be silently relabeled as the actual release date.

Supervision Start Date can provide retrospective support that the person left prison. Yet supervision information may relate in part to a prior offense, a warning ODRC places on its public material. Compare the current status, offenses, sentence, and supervision block before attributing the supervision period to the newest case. When a record says RELEASED - Death, do not describe it as a return to the community.

Expected date

A prospective field that may also represent parole eligibility.

POA/PRD

The earliest planned release to APA supervision, subject to later status confirmation.

Judicial release

A court-authorized early release with a legal basis different from APA parole.

Discharge

The end of the ODRC custody or supervision obligation reflected in the retained record.

CCI Release Record Requests

The public search is a status tool, not a promise of a permanent online archive. ODRC describes covered groups that include incarcerated people, people under department supervision, and judicially released people. Someone fully discharged may eventually fall outside those groups. A negative result cannot erase a state-prison history, especially when the search used uncertain spelling or too many filters.

ODRC Central Records is the documentary fallback. Write to Attn: Central Records, P.O. Box 430, Columbus, OH 43216. Identify the person by full name, offender number, date of birth, docket, and committing county when known. Ask for an existing release or discharge record, release date and type, last institution, supervision start or end information if public and maintained, and the applicable retention schedule. ODRC may redact or withhold exempt information while considering nonexempt portions separately.

Ohio's public-records statute excludes certain parole, probation, community-control, post-release-control sanction, and release-determination proceeding records from its public-record definition. That limit does not turn every public ODRC status field or sentencing entry into a closed record. It means a requester should seek the specific maintained release document rather than expect the complete supervision case file.

CCI Releases Under APA

The Ohio Adult Parole Authority supervises some people after they leave CCI. A current status of APA SUPERVISION is stronger release evidence than a future expected date. Read it with Supervision Start Date, Period of Supervision, Residential County, and APA Offices. These fields identify the state supervision layer. They do not mean the Ross County Sheriff's Office supervises the person simply because CCI stands in Ross County.

A parole hearing result also requires care. ODRC's search accepts a Next Parole Board Hearing Date in YYYYMM format and an individual detail can show the latest hearing or review type and result. Results may include continued hearings, reviews, parole outcomes, or transitional-control decisions. Even a result containing PAROLED should be paired with POA/PRD and a later operative status before reporting completed physical release.

If an APA-supervised person is later declared a violator at large, the official VAL listing can document that later event. It is not an invitation to locate or approach anyone. It also does not prove present confinement or automatic return to CCI. A later arrest must be checked in the facility or agency that actually holds custody.

CCI Release Detainer Checks

A separate federal or immigration matter can affect what follows an ODRC release. Ross County has no identified dedicated ICE detention facility, and ICE is not the routine CCI release database. Use it only when the ODRC record, court material, or other official facts indicate an immigration handoff. A transfer on a detainer ends one custody stage and begins another; it is not proof of community release.

The ICE locator can include people released from ICE custody within the prior 60 days. That window concerns ICE custody, not CCI's state record. After the window ends, a non-result can reflect the system's limit rather than a contradiction. Pair the state record with the federal custody source and avoid conclusions about immigration status beyond what those agencies report.

CCI Facility and Contact

Chillicothe Correctional Institution is located at 15802 State Route 104 North, Chillicothe, Ohio 45601. ODRC operates it as a state prison. The 2024 CIIC inspection report is an official source for institution-level context, but it is not an individual release list.

No researched facility telephone number or public release-desk hours were supplied, so none should be inferred. Individual status belongs in ODRC's statewide tools. Institution facts describe CCI itself, while the offender detail, Central Records response, court order, and APA fields establish a person's release.

Ross County Custody Boundaries

Ross County contains CCI, Ross Correctional Institution, and the county jail, but physical proximity does not merge their records. The sheriff roster is for current county-jail custody. ODRC is for state imprisonment and APA supervision. Juvenile information follows authorized juvenile channels. The Ross County release-record overview helps identify the right starting system when the last facility is uncertain.

For a CCI case, preserve the offender number and individual detail whenever possible. Search the sentencing docket for legal authority, use current status for present state custody, and request Central Records when a lasting document is needed. This facility-first route prevents a missing county-roster result from being mistaken for evidence about a person who was never held there.