Search Southern Ohio Correctional Facility Inmates

SOCF Prison Overview

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, often shortened to SOCF, is operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. It is in Lucasville and is described in the research as a maximum-security state prison. The facility is physically in Scioto County, but it is not operated by the Scioto County Sheriff's Office and it is not listed through the county jail roster. Current ODRC search-result text identified Warden Cynthia Davis and listed the facility's office phone and fax.

SOCF holds sentenced Ohio felony prisoners and high-security classifications. That is a different population from local pretrial detainees or people serving short local sentences at the Scioto County Correction Center. A person can move from a county jail case into ODRC custody after conviction and state-prison sentencing, but the lookup tool changes when that transfer happens.

The ODRC facility page is the source for Southern Ohio Correctional Facility identity, contact, and institution-level details.

Use the facility page for prison-specific updates, then use the statewide offender search for individual custody and sentence records.

SOCF Population Context

The research found one high-authority historical population figure for Southern Ohio Correctional Facility: correctional-population data listed 1,256 people at SOCF on June 30, 2012. A clean current ODRC capacity or population figure was not located in the captured ODRC page text. Because of that, current capacity should not be guessed from non-official references. The correct wording is that SOCF is a maximum-security Ohio prison with a historical 2012 population figure located, while current population and capacity require confirmation from ODRC reporting.

Search SOCF Inmates

The correct lookup source for Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is the Ohio DRC Offender Search. It is not the Department-Online county jail roster. ODRC search-result text says the locator displays offenders currently incarcerated in an Ohio prison, currently under department supervision, judicially released, released, and violators at large. Searches can use name, county of commitment, zip code, status, parole hearing month, or an offender number with an A, R, or W prefix.

1. Open the Ohio DRC Offender Search rather than the Scioto County jail roster.
2. Search by last name, or use the state offender number if it is known.
3. Open the matching profile and confirm the institution field says Southern Ohio Correctional Facility or another current ODRC institution.
4. Review status, admission, offense, sentence, county of commitment, docket, and expected release or parole fields.

The ODRC offender search is the statewide form that separates state-prison custody from local jail custody.

If the person was just arrested and has not been sentenced to state prison, search Scioto County Correction Center first.

SOCF Address and Contact

Use the institution contact information for facility-level questions, but use ODRC central records guidance for questions about offender-search data when the profile itself directs users to central records. Prison staff and county jail staff answer different systems. The county jail cannot update an ODRC state-prison profile, and SOCF is not the booking counter for new Scioto County arrests.

SOCF Visitation Rules

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility visitation follows Ohio DRC rules and facility-specific availability. ODRC says it permits both in-person and video visitation, but guidelines and availability vary by institution. Visitors should use the ODRC visitation overview, the ODRC visitation guidelines, and the SOCF facility page for current approval, scheduling, identification, conduct, and visit-type rules.

SOCF Mail and Money

ODRC mail and money rules are statewide, with facility-level details layered on top. ODRC's mail pages say incoming cards and letters from friends and family go through the ODRC Mail Processing Center, which opened November 13, 2023. Legal mail has separate rules. For funds, the research identified state-approved services such as ConnectNetwork, GTLFS or TouchPay money-order options, and JPay-linked services depending on the account or service.

SOCF Intake and Sentencing

SOCF does not book new street arrests like the county jail. A Scioto County felony case can begin with arrest, municipal arraignment, bond, preliminary hearing or grand jury, indictment, Common Pleas arraignment, plea or trial, and sentencing. If a judge imposes a state-prison sentence, the person moves into ODRC custody and becomes searchable in the state system. The county roster may no longer show the person after transfer.

A DRC profile can show state offender number, date of birth, gender, race, admission date, institution, status, offense titles, ORC sections, counts, sentence dates, jail-time credit, county of commitment, docket number, judge, aggregate sentence, and expected release or parole eligibility. Those fields are sentence and custody fields, not booking-row fields.

About Southern Ohio

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is part of Scioto County's broader correctional footprint because it is physically located in Lucasville. It should still be described as an ODRC prison, not as a county jail annex. The distinction matters for families and records searchers. A county jail roster may answer where someone is after a new arrest, while the state locator answers where someone is after state commitment, supervision, release, or parole-violator status.

Ohio VINE at VINELink can supplement custody and case notifications, but it does not replace the ODRC locator for state-prison profile details. Federal and immigration custody also use separate systems: the BOP locator for federal prisoners and the ICE detainee locator for immigration custody. Neither one is a SOCF roster.