Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5120 - Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections - Administration and Director › Chapter 5120-3 - Prisoner Employment › Section 5120-3-08 - Inmate compensation for work program assignments and related matters

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Inmates who are assigned to work
			 programs, other than those operated by Ohio penal industries or other
			 employment promulgated pursuant to rules
			 5120-3-03 and
			 5120-3-04 of the Administrative
			 Code, are enrolled in institutional school programs or who are unassigned,
			 
								will
			 receive compensation according to the following schedule:
(1) Category one inmates
			 
									will
			 receive no compensation. "Category one inmates" include those in reception at a
			 designated reception facility who are unassigned, those who are in short-term
			 restrictive housing pursuant to rule
			 5120-9-10 of the Administrative
			 Code and those who are absent with leave for more than seven days and those
			 absent without leave.
(2) Category
			 two inmates 
									will receive at least three dollars per month to be
			 credited and paid to their personal account. "Category two inmates" include
			 those who are absent with leave (not to exceed seven days) and those who have
			 no job assignment in a work program but maintain their personal living quarters
			 in accordance with rules issued by the managing officer. Category two also
			 includes those on death row and in protective control without a job assignment,
			 those who are new arrivals at a parent institution awaiting assignment, those
			 pending an investigation pursuant to rule
			 5120-9-11 of the Administrative
			 Code, and those who are in pre-classification assignment status.
(3) Category three inmates
			 
									will
			 receive at least six dollars per month to be credited and paid to their
			 personal account. "Category three inmates" are those not in category one or two
			 and include those who have an actual work assignment of less than sixty hours
			 per month, those who are assigned to limited duty by the medical staff and
			 those who have been confined to a hospital or the infirmary for more than
			 thirty consecutive days. For the first thirty days of a hospital or infirmary
			 stay, an inmate 
									will be compensated according to his category and
			 level immediately preceding admittance.
(4) Category four inmates
			 
									will
			 receive at least nine dollars per month to be credited and paid to their
			 personal account. "Category four inmates" are those who have an actual work
			 assignment of sixty to eighty-nine hours per month or those who are part-time
			 students for sixty to ninety hours per month. Category four also includes those
			 assigned to extended restrictive housing pursuant to rule
			 5120-9-10 of the Administrative
			 Code regardless of job assignment.
(5) Category five inmates
			 
									will
			 receive at least twelve dollars per month to be credited and paid to their
			 personal account. "Category five inmates" include those who have an actual work
			 assignment of ninety to one hundred thirty-nine hours per month.
(6) "Category six inmates" are those in
			 full-time work assignments or apprenticeship training, of at least one hundred
			 forty hours per month, or those who are full-time students or those who are
			 part-time students with part-time work assignments with a combined total of at
			 least one hundred forty hours per month. Category six inmates
			 
									will
			 receive from twelve dollars to twenty-two dollars per month at the discretion
			 of the managing officer. The managing officer 
									is permitted to
			 consider the inmate's security level or classification and whether the work
			 assignment is an apprenticeship, general labor, semiskilled, or skilled when
			 determining the monthly rate of pay.
Those inmates who are full-time students or part-time students
				with part-time work assignments shall be considered general labor grade within
				the proper security level for purposes of determining the monthly rate of
				pay.
(7) Category seven
			 inmates 
									will receive twenty-four dollars per month to be
			 credited and paid to the personal account. "Category seven inmates" include
			 those with full-time work assignments requiring a high degree of skill or
			 responsibility which are authorized by the managing officer. The number of
			 inmates in category seven may not exceed three per cent of the institution's
			 population.