Lebanon Correctional Institution

LEBANON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

• Lebanon Correctional Institution offers a comprehensive Sex Offender Program. The program lasts approximately 18 months and includes all departmental required components. Prior to successful completion, participants must meet certain minimal standards the final of which, is completion of a written relapse prevention plan that has been approved by program staff. Additional requirements include the development of an autobiography, finalization of all homework assignments, and a minimum of seventy five percent attendance. A working understanding of program concepts, including but not limited to, offender typology, offense continuum, abuse cycle, thinking errors and risk factors is also required.
• Chaplains' Literacy Program is unique in that it is conducted with the aid of community volunteers including a retired judge. The tutors utilize the Laubach method of "one-on-one" teaching. Participation in this program is strictly voluntary.

Reading Room
 

In 2000, former First Lady Hope Taft approached the Director about establishing a reading room for the children who visited their incarcerated parent at the Pickaway Correctional Institution. This idea spread across the state, and now the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction maintains children’s reading rooms in each of the 32 institutions. The reading rooms encourage family literacy by providing a pleasant and comfortable setting for both child and incarcerated parent. Each room is stocked with a wide variety of children’s books and has an inmate narrator who reads to the visiting children twice a day. The role of the inmate narrator is to read picture books to the children in much the same manner that children’s hour would be done at a public library. A variety of arts and craft supplies for the children are also available in most of the rooms. Many of the supplies and books are donated by employees and service organizations. This past year the Department served over 45,000 children. The inmate narrators worked over 32,000 hours in reading to and with the children.
 

Visit the Reading Room at Lebanon

• New Evening Visitation Hours Effective September 2, 2007
• Monday - Friday: 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday and Sunday:  8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• No visitation on holidays.
• Visiting hours are subject to change without notice. Please call the institution to verify visiting hours before planning a visit.

For general visiting information or to download a visitor application, go to http://www.drc.state.oh.us/web/visiting.htm.