Noble Correctional Institution Overview
Noble Correctional Institution, often shortened to NCI, is operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. It is physically located in Caldwell, but it is not run by the Noble County Sheriff's Office and is not listed through the county jail roster. NCI holds sentenced adult male state prisoners. Some may have been sentenced from Noble County, but many were committed from other Ohio counties. The key question is not just where the person was arrested. It is whether the person is in state prison custody.
The 2025 Ohio Attorney General Correctional Facility Inspection Services report says NCI opened in 1996 and describes a large men's prison with open-dormitory style housing. Official and audit sources characterize the custody level as minimum/medium or level 1-2, with a medium-security description in current material. ODRC land-management comments also place NCI on part of an ODRC property in Olive Township near Caldwell, which underscores that the prison has its own state-security concerns and operating rules.
The manifest image below comes from the ODRC Noble Correctional Institution facility profile.
The official profile is the correct starting point for prison-specific visiting, contacts, and institutional updates.
Noble Correctional Population
The strongest population source for Noble Correctional Institution is the 2025 Ohio Attorney General CFIS inspection report. It gives a maximum capacity of 2,600 and states that about 2,400 incarcerated persons were housed on the inspection day. The same research notes that units house roughly 240 incarcerated persons. These figures describe ODRC prison population, not Noble County Jail population. Counting NCI prisoners as county-jail inmates would misstate the local jail picture.
A Prison Policy correctional-population locator listed 2,390 state prisoners at NCI for a 2012 survey date. The 2025 inspection figure is the more current facility-capacity source in the research file, while the older survey helps show that NCI has long been a major prison population in a small rural county.
Noble Correctional Lookup
Use ODRC Offender Search for Noble Correctional Institution inmates. The county jail roster is not the right system for NCI. ODRC's statewide locator covers people currently incarcerated in Ohio prisons, under department supervision, released from ODRC custody, judicially released, or listed as violators at large. The "County of Commitment" field means the sentencing county. It does not prove current housing in that county.
- Open ODRC Offender Search and choose a name search or offender-number search.
- Enter last name and first name, or use an A, R, or W offender number with six digits.
- Use status, county of commitment, residential county, ZIP, or parole-hearing month only when those facts are known.
- Open the matching result and confirm current institution or supervision status.
- Use ODRC contact resources or VINELink if a recent county-jail transfer has not appeared in the state locator yet.
The ODRC offender search page in the manifest shows the statewide search fields and status options from the official ODRC locator.
That field set is why ODRC can answer prison and supervision questions that the Noble County Jail roster cannot answer.
| ODRC field | How it helps |
|---|---|
| Last Name and First Name | Basic name lookup, with last-name begins-with behavior documented by ODRC. |
| Number | A, R, or W prefix with six digits and no spaces or hyphens. |
| County of Commitment | Sentencing county, including Noble, not necessarily current location. |
| Status | All, Incarcerated, Released, APA Supervision, or Violators at Large. |
| Residential County or ZIP | Supervision address search, not a prison-housing field. |
Noble Correctional Institution Contact
Use NCI contact channels for prison-specific questions about visitation, mail routing, institutional rules, and custody location. ODRC's offender-search contact page also gives statewide offender information resources in Columbus. The facility should not be called for a new local arrest unless there is a clear reason to believe the person is already in state prison custody.
Noble Correctional Institution
15708 McConnelsville Road
Caldwell, OH 43724
740-732-5188
ODRC state prison facility contact.
ODRC Offender Search Contact
P.O. Box 430
Columbus, OH 43216
614-752-1161
Statewide offender information contact.
Noble Correctional Visitation
Noble Correctional Institution visitation follows ODRC prison rules, not county jail visiting rules. The research file identifies in-person prison visitation as available Wednesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in official snippets for NCI, and video visitation as available daily with morning, afternoon, and evening blocks. Visitors must use the prison-specific approval and scheduling process. ODRC/ViaPath scheduling is commonly handled through the state prison visit portal, and the NCI visiting email identified in official snippets is drcnci.visiting@drc.ohio.gov.
| Visit type | Schedule or method | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| In-person prison visitation | Wednesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in official snippets | Approval, reservation, ID, dress, and current facility status. |
| Video prison visitation | Daily with morning, afternoon, and evening blocks in official snippets | ODRC/ViaPath scheduling and account rules. |
| Application | ODRC prison visitor process | Use current ODRC instructions before making travel plans. |
| Custody notification | Ohio VINELink may help with notification | Search ODRC for state custody, then use notification tools where available. |
Note: Prison visits can change quickly, so confirm approval and schedule with NCI before traveling.
Noble Correctional Mail
ODRC personal mail has moved through the ODRC Mail Processing Center for many prison facilities. The research file warns that sending personal mail to the wrong place can delay delivery. Legal mail and business correspondence may follow separate instructions, so use the current NCI page and ODRC mail-processing page before addressing envelopes. Do not use Noble County Jail mail, JailATM, or CIDNET instructions for an NCI prisoner.
| Service | Provider or detail |
|---|---|
| Personal mail | ODRC Mail Processing Center guidance applies where current ODRC rules direct it. |
| Legal or business mail | May follow a different prison procedure. Confirm with ODRC and NCI. |
| Money | Use ODRC statewide family and payment resources, not county jail deposit vendors. |
| Phone and video | Use current ODRC and ViaPath/ConnectNetwork-style prison resources where ODRC directs. |
The main distinction is simple: JailATM, Stellar Services, and CIDNET are Noble County Jail research findings. NCI is an ODRC prison, so prison family services and mail rules control instead.
Noble Correctional Classification
NCI does not perform local street-arrest booking for Noble County. A person sentenced to prison may remain in the county jail for a time, then move through ODRC reception, classification, and institution assignment. During that transition, the court docket, the sheriff roster, VINELink, and ODRC Offender Search may not update at the same time. If a person disappears from the Noble County Jail roster after sentencing, ODRC search is the next prison locator to check.
- County of commitment
- The county where the person was sentenced, not the same thing as current prison housing.
- APA supervision
- Adult Parole Authority status shown in ODRC records for people under state supervision.
- Violator at large
- An ODRC status for a person who has absconded from state supervision.
About Noble Correctional Institution
NCI has a different scale from the local jail. The jail's general housing capacity is 36, while NCI's maximum capacity is 2,600. That is why inmate searches in Noble County must separate physical location from custody system. Many people incarcerated within the county are state prisoners, yet they are not Noble County Jail inmates. The reverse is also true: a person sentenced from Noble County may be housed at another ODRC prison after classification.
Program and conditions material is also prison-specific. Research notes tie NCI to ODRC audits, sanitation and hygiene checks for food-service areas, statewide reentry and family services, and educational or vocational programming described in high-authority snippets. Some program details came through secondary sources, so current participation should be confirmed with ODRC rather than assumed for a specific prisoner.
Note: Confirm custody, mail routing, and visitation through ODRC or NCI before making plans.