Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5120:1 - Division of Parole and Community Services › Chapter 5120:1-1 - Release › Section 5120:1-1-01 - Glossary of terms

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Facility director: A "facility director"
			 is a person designated as the head of community correctional center, halfway
			 house resident center, or other suitable facility.
(B) Supervising authority: The "supervising
			 authority" shall be the supervision sections of the adult parole
			 authority.
(C) Suitable facility: A
			 "suitable facility" is one that has been licensed by the adult parole authority
			 pursuant to division (C) of section
			 2967.14 of the Revised
			 Code.
(D) Confinement:
			 "Confinement" shall mean restriction to the buildings or grounds of suitable
			 facility.
(E) Violation
			 : A "violation
			 " shall occur when there is a
			 failure to comply with the rules as established pursuant to administrative
			 rules or laws.
(F) Releasee: An inmate who has been released from confinement pursuant to
			 section 2967.28 of the Revised Code
			 under a period of post-release control that includes one or more post-release
			 control sanctions.
(G) Aggravated murder: "Aggravated murder"
			 shall be the crime of murder in the first degree for which an inmate was
			 convicted and sentenced pursuant to Chapter 2901. of the Revised Code until
			 January 1, 1974, and the crime for which an inmate is convicted and sentenced
			 pursuant to Chapter 2903. of the Revised Code thereafter.
(H) Murder: "Murder" shall be the crime of
			 murder in the second degree for which an inmate was convicted and sentenced
			 pursuant to Chapter 2901. of the Revised Code until January 1, 1974, and the
			 crime for which an inmate is convicted and sentenced pursuant to Chapter 2903.
			 of the Revised Code thereafter.
(I)
			 Inmate: "Inmate" shall include a person who is in
			 actual confinement in a state correctional institution or in a county,
			 multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or
			 workhouse or a releasee who is serving a sanction in a violation sanction
			 center.
(J) Institution:
			 "Institution" shall be defined as any penal institution operated directly by
			 the department of rehabilitation and correction, which is used for the custody,
			 care or treatment of criminal offenders.
(K)
			 Shock parole: "Shock parole" shall be defined as a release granted pursuant to
			 rule 5120:1-1-06 of the
			 Administrative Code prior to regular parole eligibility or expiration of
			 definite sentence pursuant to rule
			 5120:1-1-03 and Chapter 5120-2
			 of the Administrative Code.
(L) Hearing officer
			 interview: A part of the hearing process wherein an inmate personally appears
			 before one or more hearing officers who review and evaluate available
			 information concerning the inmate's case and formulates a recommendation which
			 is provided to a designated parole board member.
(M) Parole board
			 hearing panel: That body of the parole board designated by the parole board
			 chair to conduct release consideration hearings. A panel may consist of one
			 member or a designated number of members and/or hearing officers.
(N)
			 Parole board minutes: The official public record of the decisions of the parole
			 board.
(O) Projected release
			 date: An action taken by the parole board to establish a future date of release
			 not less than six months or more than ten years from the date of the hearing
			 based on the inmate complying with program and institution conduct
			 requirements.