We provide our clients with a safe and secure environment to enable positive changes in their lives through a high-quality, structured education, treatment, and community service environment.
VISION STATEMENT:
Empowering individuals to reach their full potential, we envision positive changes for families and future generations, resulting in healthier communities.
MISSION STATEMENT:
We provide our clients with a safe and secure environment to enable positive changes in their lives through a high-quality, structured education, treatment, and community service environment.
CORE PRINCIPLES:
Excellence –We use the best practices to serve our clients compassionately and understanding.
Integrity –We are committed to honesty and the highest level of ethical conduct and moral behavior.
Fairness –We treat everyone objectively and impartially supporting equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Collaborative – We are committed to collaborating with others.
Accountable – We are stewards of our resources and responsible for successful outcomes.
Eastern Ohio Correction Center (EOCC) is one of nineteen Community-Based Correctional Facilities (CBCF) in the State of Ohio, under the umbrella of The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Bureau of Community Sanctions was developed to divert non-violent, low-level felony offenders from prison and placed in an alternative, secure, residential, community-control sanction facility that provides comprehensive programming for individuals on felony supervision. EOCC is governed by a facility governing board and advised by the judicial advisory board. EOCC is not a jail or prison accredited by the American Correctional Association, and we have the second lowest recidivism of all CBCFs in Ohio based on the last survey in 2015.
Eastern Ohio Correction Center operates two facilities: The Wintersville Facility opened in May 1990 for Male residents, located in Wintersville, Ohio, and houses 86 male residents, while the Lisbon facility opened in May 2000 for Female residents, located in Lisbon, Ohio, and houses 40 female residents.
EOCC offers a wide range of programming addressing offender needs such as chemical dependency, addiction, anger, education, employment, criminal attitudes, and domestic violence. A case manager will assess the resident, review the Ohio Risk Assessment Survey, and tailor an individualized treatment plan for the resident. Based on the individualized treatment plan, residents are required to complete all programming assigned to them.
EOCC serves a six-member county to include Belmont, Carrol, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, and Jefferson Counties, and we have extended our service to other counties to include Monroe, Noble, and Tuscarawas counties.
Felony offenders are referred to EOCC by the Common Pleas Court Judges for potential placement, and EOCC will screen the offender for placement. The judge will sentence the offender to serve up to six months at EOCC and place them on community control for up to five years. The average length of stay is four to four and a half months. However, some offenders are sentenced to a definite term of six months.
Ohio’s Community-Based Correction Facility (CBCF) program was established in 1978 to provide state funding to assist local criminal justice systems in reducing prison commitments. The program is a unique partnership between the state of Ohio and local governments. Since its inception over forty years ago, Community-Based Correctional Facilities have expanded to serve all 88 counties in Ohio. CBCFs have been a prosperous state and county partnership, allowing local criminal justice officials to utilize cost-effective residential options for managing offender populations. The state benefits by having local community corrections options in the counties thus, saving costly prison bed space for those offenders who need a higher level of intervention. The county benefits by having a locally controlled sentencing option.
The goals of Community-Based Correctional Facilities include, but are not limited to:
– Reducing recidivism
– Providing productive offender reintegration into the community
– Reducing state prison commitments/Post Release Control Sanction Time
– Reducing the cost of incarceration in Ohio
– Providing maximum public safety
The Eastern Ohio Correction Center’s Auditor of State report – 2019-2020 – is available through a public records request.
ACA Accredited Since 2003, Clifford Skeen Award Recipient, 1998 & 2010, and EOCC is an equal opportunity facility.
