Effective: March 31, 2021
Latest Legislation: House Bill 24 - 133rd General Assembly
Except for prisoners participating in a county jail industry program established under section 5147.30 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, or officer in charge of any workhouse or jail, shall place to the credit of each prisoner the amount of the prisoner's earnings that the board or officer considers equitable and just, taking into consideration the character of the prisoner, the nature of the crime for which the prisoner is imprisoned, and the prisoner's general deportment. The board or officer may cancel any portion of that credit for violation of the rules, want of propriety, or other misconduct. When such earnings are credited to any such prisoner and the prisoner has a child under the age of sixteen or a spouse, the board or officer in control of the workhouse or jail shall pay the earnings weekly to the person having custody of the child, or to the spouse of the prisoner, as the board or officer determines. When the prisoner has no such child or spouse, the earnings shall be paid to the prisoner upon discharge.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Section 5147.07 | Purchasing Supplies.
Section 5147.12 | Labor of Prisoners Not to Be Sold.
Section 5147.14 | Authority to Procure Equipment.
Section 5147.15 | Employment of Prisoners.
Section 5147.16 | Purchase or Lease Beds of Limestone, or Other Suitable Road-Building Material.
Section 5147.17 | Sentence of Hard Labor in County.
Section 5147.18 | Duty of County Commissioners to Work Prisoners at Hard Labor.
Section 5147.19 | Control of Prisoners at Hard Labor.
Section 5147.20 | Resentence of Prisoner Sick or Incapacitated for Work.
Section 5147.21 | Board of County Commissioners May Employ Superintendent.
Section 5147.22 | Earnings of Prisoners.
Section 5147.27 | Temporary Details to Specified Labor.
Section 5147.28 | Court May Establish Work-Release Program.
Section 5147.29 | Collection and Disbursal of Prisoner's Earnings From Work-Release Program.