The STAR Community Justice Center official site identifies the residential program and counties served. A Lawrence placement should then be matched to the Common Pleas court record, while the county's dated facility history helps keep STAR separate from the jail and older Franklin Furnace references.
STAR Center Discharge Paths
STAR describes itself as an accredited male and female community-based correctional facility, often shortened to CBCF. It is an alternative residential correctional placement, not the Lawrence County Jail and not a conventional ODRC prison. A Lawrence County court can order a person into the program even though the center stands in Scioto County.
A successful completion may end residence at STAR and return the participant to the community under the terms set by the sentencing court. Community control, often called probation, can continue. Some cases may involve ODRC Adult Parole Authority supervision. A violation or unsuccessful termination can send the matter back to court and may lead to jail or prison. “Left STAR” does not state which outcome occurred.
Confirm a STAR Center Discharge
Begin with STAR and the sentencing court. Identify the participant by full name, date of birth, Lawrence County case number, and approximate admission or departure dates. Ask STAR whether its existing record marks completion, discharge, transfer, or a return for court action. Then read the Lawrence court journal for the legal result.
- Contact STAR Community Justice Center and ask for its current procedure for a permitted status or discharge inquiry.
- Search the Lawrence Common Pleas or municipal docket that ordered the placement.
- Locate the signed completion, violation, community-control, sentencing, or transport entry.
- Search ODRC Offender Search if the docket shows prison commitment, APA supervision, or another ODRC role.
- Use Ohio VINE only as a reported custody-event layer, then confirm the event with the custodian and court.
Lawrence County's sheriff display is not the right STAR discharge archive. It may still help if the person moved through the county jail before or after placement. The Lawrence County custody search shows how to separate county jail, court, STAR, and ODRC records without treating one system as universal.
STAR Discharge Record Sources
No single standardized Ohio “release record” covers this path. STAR documents residential status, while the court controls the sanction. ODRC records apply only when state custody or supervision follows. The best proof uses the record that matches the question.
| Question | Best source |
|---|---|
| Did residential placement end? | STAR completion or discharge record |
| Why did placement end? | STAR record plus the sentencing court entry |
| Did community control continue? | Lawrence court docket and probation office |
| Did the person enter prison? | Court sentencing entry and ODRC Offender Search |
| Did APA supervision follow? | ODRC status, placement, and supervision fields |
A court docket can lag behind judicial action. Lawrence municipal CaseLook systems warn that at least 24 hours, and sometimes longer, may pass before a filing appears online. Common Pleas eServices is the felony path. Contact the clerk for verified information when the timing or exact language matters.
STAR Center Contact Details
STAR's official site is the direct source for its current programs and contact procedure. The research establishes its address but does not provide a verified public phone number or fixed records hours. Do not borrow the Lawrence jail number as though it reaches STAR. When a court placed the person, the Lawrence clerk or probation office can answer questions about its own order and supervision record.
STAR Community Justice Center
Address: 4696 Gallia Pike, Franklin Furnace, OH 45629
County: Scioto County
Type: Community-based correctional facility
Operator: STAR Community Justice Center
Serves: Lawrence County and other Ohio counties
Frame a request around an existing completion, discharge, transfer, or program-termination record for one participant and placement. Protected treatment, medical, victim, security, or other exempt content may not be open. The sentencing court remains the source for a filed order, and ODRC Central Records is the source for its releasable state record when applicable.
STAR Is Not County Jail
Calling STAR a Lawrence County jail creates two errors. First, STAR is located in Franklin Furnace, which is in Scioto County. Second, its CBCF role is a structured residential alternative within Ohio's community-corrections framework. The Lawrence County Jail in Ironton handles local booking and detention. ODRC prisons hold people committed to state sentences. These are distinct custody and supervision settings.
A Lawrence court order explains the connection. The county that sentenced or supervised the participant can differ from the county where the program operates. That is why the Lawrence court case remains useful even when STAR held the person elsewhere. A person may be back in Lawrence County after completing residence and still be subject to community-control terms.
- CBCF
- A community-based correctional facility offering a structured residential alternative to prison.
- Community control
- A court-managed sanction in the community, with conditions and possible consequences for violations.
- Completion
- The program's recorded successful end, which does not by itself erase the court case.
- Violation
- Alleged noncompliance that can return the participant to court for a decision.
ODRC After STAR Discharge
ODRC Offender Search becomes relevant when the Lawrence court orders prison or when ODRC Adult Parole Authority supervision appears after the placement. Search by name or ODRC number. Compare middle name, age, offense, county of commitment, and admission data. A matching name alone is too weak.
Status and current location can show an institution or an APA placement. The combined “Expected Release Date/Parole Eligibility Date” is a projection or eligibility milestone, not proof of departure. “Expiration of Supervision Term” concerns the end of APA control, not the day a person left STAR. Read each label literally and compare it with the court journal.
If no ODRC record appears, do not infer that STAR completion occurred. A CBCF placement may remain under the court and never create a prison commitment. STAR and the court still lead.
Dating Franklin Furnace Facilities
Franklin Furnace has several overlapping correctional references. STAR is the current CBCF described by its official site. Older Lawrence County material can also mention temporary use of an Ohio River Valley facility. Former Ohio Revised Code 341.121 specifically allowed such Lawrence County use, but that authority was repealed effective September 30, 2021. It is historical law, not evidence that the former site operates today.
Lawrence County also announced funds and plans for a proposed 200-bed replacement jail in Ironton. That project does not turn STAR into the county jail and does not establish that a new jail opened. Commissioner minutes approving a Monroe County housing contract in January 2025 add later evidence that outside custody remained part of the local story. Attach a date and operator to each source before using it.
STAR Departure Verification Limits
Ohio VINE may provide a custody event when a participating jail or ODRC supplies it, but it is not a complete STAR program archive. The county sheriff has no official 24-hour or 72-hour release feed and no current Ohio mobile app documented in the research. A web search that finds another Lawrence County or another state's app can send the inquiry to the wrong jurisdiction.
Do not turn a missing online name into a release date. Verify the person, program, case, and dates. If the matter involved a subsequent Lawrence jail stay, request the sheriff's register of confinement and transport papers. If it involved prison, lead with ODRC. If it remained a community-control case, the sentencing docket and probation record are the durable local sources.
The outcome words matter. Discharge from the residential center, termination from a program, release from jail, and completion of court supervision are not synonyms. The strongest answer states what ended, on which date, which authority recorded it, and what status came next.