Toledo Correctional Institution

TOLEDO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

• Assistance Dogs: Puppies are received by the Assistance Dogs of America, Inc. and trained to become assistance dogs for people with disabilities.
• Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (TASC):  This 15-month program is designed to help the family unit stay intact throughout the period of incarceration so that when the inmate is released, the bond with the family and the child has been maintained.  Only those inmates with children are eligible to participate and the offender must be released from prison to Lucas county.  The program begins with when the offender has six months of his sentence left to serve and will continue nine months after his release.  The offenders will be mentored while in prison and their families will be brought in to take part in mutual programming.  Families will receive help in such areas as education, job skills and substance abuse treatment.  Children will participate in youth-oriented programs.
• Keep In Focus:  A reentry program designed to assist Lucas County offenders in their transition back into the community.  Agencies such as Family Council, APA, FOCUS, Legal Aid of NOW, TASC, ToCI, Urbane Knights, United Way, EOPA, University of Toledo and Fresh Attitudes work together to develop ways of assisting offenders to be successful upon release.  EOPA meets with offenders who have been accepted into the program prior to their release and provides an orientation to explain what services they can receive or what type of assistance is available to them.  Appointments are set up for the offender before his release date for such services as employment, family matters, housing, drug treatment, job training, legal services, mental health and other necessary social services.

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 Toledo

• Close Security: Wednesday - Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.  Visiting is closed on Monday and Tuesday.  Reservations are not required, first come first served during each session.
• Minimum Camp: Friday - Monday 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. OR 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Visiting room is closed Tuesday through Thursday. Reservations are not required, first come first serve during each session. 
• 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.