Find Southern Ohio Correctional Facility Releases

SOCF Release Paths

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction state prison in Lucasville. Its residents may have been committed by any Ohio county. The Scioto County Sheriff's current-inmate roster therefore cannot confirm who is housed at SOCF or who has left it. ODRC is the correct public system for prison status, institution, sentence information, release details, and supervision.

Several events can change where a person appears. A transfer changes the institution but leaves the status incarcerated. Parole or post-release control ends physical prison confinement while Adult Parole Authority supervision continues. Judicial release is ordered by a court and appears as a distinct release mechanism. Sentence expiration can lead toward discharge, while a death record may also sit within ODRC's broad Released filter. The exact label must be reported without turning every exit into a return to the community.

Confirm an SOCF Release

The ODRC Offender Search is the first public record for Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Search by ODRC number when possible because names can match or change. A careful lookup follows a fixed identity and status check.

1. Enter the ODRC number or the person's name and select All, Incarcerated, Released, or APA Supervision as the question requires.
2. Open the matching profile and compare name, birth date, ODRC number, committing county, docket, and offenses.
3. Read the Status and Institution fields before interpreting any expected date.
4. Review admission, sentence, expected-release or parole-eligibility information, and the parole or release detail.
5. If APA Supervision appears, note the supervision start, period, and APA office. Use the sentencing court or Board record for the legal order.

Male ODRC numbers use an A or R prefix followed by six digits. Women's numbers use W and six digits, with a leading zero added to a commonly five-digit number. County of Commitment means the sentencing county. It is not the current residence. In multi-county cases, the first county associated with the record controls the county shown for search purposes.

The broader Scioto released-inmate search explains when county, court, VINE, BOP, or ICE records belong in the chain. Those tools should not replace ODRC for an SOCF prison event.

SOCF Release Record Fields

An ODRC detail page can provide far more than a current location. Not every record contains each field, and ODRC warns that sentence information may be incomplete. Compare the fields that do appear before drawing a conclusion.

ORC 5120.21 requires ODRC to maintain institutional history including the date, cause, and terms of discharge, transfers, condition on leaving, and death information. It also limits access to the full institutional and APA files. The statute expressly permits certain public fields, including name, conviction, photograph, supervision status, and current or past incarceration. Start with the public profile, then make a narrow Central Records inquiry about a specific disputed sentence or release field.

SOCF Expected Release Dates

The public label “Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date” combines two concepts. ODRC defines it as a projected release date or a date pending parole consideration. For a definite term it may function as an expected date. In a parole-eligible or older indefinite sentence, it may instead mark when release can be considered. It never serves as proof that the person walked out of SOCF on that day.

Dates can move because a court certifies more jail-time credit, a sentence is corrected, program credit is earned or withdrawn, the Parole Board continues a matter, judicial release is granted, another hold appears, or an indefinite-sentence process applies. Ohio's current earned-credit law, ORC 2967.194, has eligibility rules, exclusions, administrative review, and caps. It is not a universal promise that every prisoner serves the same fraction of a term. Mandatory and excluded time can remain unchanged.

Actual release is confirmed when the status and release or supervision detail change and the responsible agency record supports the event. An APA profile then may show supervision start, supervision period, residential county or ZIP, and the APA office. Residential information is the last recorded value, not a live verified address.

SOCF Supervision After Release

A person can be released from SOCF and still remain under state control. ODRC's APA Supervision filter covers parole and other forms of state post-release supervision. The Scioto research example displays a supervision start, a period of supervision, and APA Office SCIOTO 2. Those fields confirm physical release from prison with continuing oversight, not complete discharge from the sentence.

Ohio VINE provides a second, event-focused channel. For ODRC it can cover general release, death, prison transfer, advance parole-hearing notices, parole revocation and return, release from parole, Transitional Control review, and Intensive Prison Program eligibility. That event list is broader than the county-jail list. A transfer alert still is not a community release, and “release from parole” is not the same event as release from prison.

For a person alleged to have left supervision, ODRC's Violators at Large list is narrow. The listed address is the last one on record before at-large status, not a verified present location. The agency instructs the public not to attempt apprehension. Law enforcement must confirm a warrant through its own systems before arrest.

SOCF History Shapes Release Search

The official Ohio legislative report describes Southern Ohio Correctional Facility as a maximum-security male prison that opened in 1972. It occupies 1,625 acres and has a design capacity of 1,638. Those figures describe the institution. They are not a release count, a current population, or evidence about a named person.

SOCF's location in Scioto County creates a common records error. A person may be physically housed in the county without having a Scioto County conviction. Conversely, a person sentenced in Scioto County may be held in another ODRC prison. Search by identity and ODRC number, then read committing county, docket, and institution as separate fields. Geography alone does not decide which court record or release office applies.

The official biennial report supplies the institution's history and characteristics.

That source reinforces why SOCF must be treated as a statewide prison and not as an extension of the Scioto County Jail.

SOCF Release Record Contacts

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is located at 1724 State Route 728, Lucasville, Ohio 45699. Research did not establish a current official facility telephone number, so no unverified number should be substituted. For sentence-data questions, save the public ODRC profile and direct a focused inquiry to Central Records with the person's name and ODRC number.

The sentencing court is the source for a judicial-release entry or corrected judgment. The Ohio Parole Board handles its own orders and minutes under separate public-access rules. Correspondence goes to Ohio Parole Board, ODRC, 4545 Fisher Road, Suite D, Columbus, OH 43228, with the offender's name and number. The handbook lists 614-728-1976 and 888-842-8464.

Note: Preserve the ODRC profile and exact status wording before asking another office to confirm an SOCF release event.