Ohio § 2949.12 Reception facilities for convicted felons

Ohio Statutes

§ 2949.12 — Reception facilities for convicted felons

Ohio § 2949.12

Title 29Crimes-Procedure

Ch. 2949Execution of Sentence

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2949.12 (2026).

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Unless the execution of sentence is suspended  or the convicted felon has less than thirty days to serve in  prison and the department of rehabilitation and correction, the  county sheriff, and the court agree otherwise, a convicted felon  who is sentenced  to serve a term of imprisonment in a state  correctional  institution shall be conveyed, within five days  after sentencing,  excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal  holidays, by the sheriff  of the county in which the conviction  was had to the facility that  is designated by the department of  rehabilitation and correction  for the reception of convicted  felons. The sheriff shall deliver  the convicted felon into the  custody of the managing officer of  the reception facility and, at  that time, unless the department  and the sherif

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Unless the execution of sentence is suspended or the convicted felon has less than thirty days to serve in prison and the department of rehabilitation and correction, the county sheriff, and the court agree otherwise, a convicted felon who is sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment in a state correctional institution shall be conveyed, within five days after sentencing, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, by the sheriff of the county in which the conviction was had to the facility that is designated by the department of rehabilitation and correction for the reception of convicted felons. The sheriff shall deliver the convicted felon into the custody of the managing officer of the reception facility and, at that time, unless the department and the sheriff have agreed to electronically processed prisoner commitment, shall present the managing officer with a copy of the convicted felon's sentence that clearly describes each offense for which the felon was sentenced to a correctional institution, designates each section of the Revised Code that the felon violated and that resulted in the felon's conviction and sentence to a correctional institution, designates the sentence imposed for each offense for which the felon was sentenced to a correctional institution, and, pursuant to section2967.191of the Revised Code, specifies the total number of days, if any, that the felon was confined for any reason prior to conviction and sentence. The sheriff, at that time, also shall present the managing officer with a copy of the indictment. The clerk of the court of common pleas shall furnish the copies of the sentence and indictment. In the case of a person under the age of eighteen years who is certified to the court of common pleas by the juvenile court, the clerk of the court of common pleas also shall attach a copy of the certification to the copy of the indictment.

The convicted felon shall be assigned to an institution or designated to be housed in a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, if authorized pursuant to section5120.161of the Revised Code, shall be conveyed to the institution, jail, or workhouse, and shall be kept within the institution, jail, or workhouse until the term of the felon's imprisonment expires, the felon is pardoned, paroled, or placed under a post-release control sanction, or the felon is transferred under laws permitting the transfer of prisoners. If the execution of the felon's sentence is suspended, and the judgment thereafter affirmed, the felon shall be conveyed, in the same manner as if the execution of the felon's sentence had not been suspended, to the reception facility as soon as practicable after the judge directs the execution of sentence. The trial judge or other judge of the court, in the judge's discretion and for good cause shown, may extend the time of the conveyance.