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Ohio Rev. Code § 5145.01 (2026)

Length of sentences

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April 7, 2009
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House Bill 130 - 127th General Assembly
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Courts shall impose sentences to a state correctional institution for felonies pursuant to sections 2929.13 and 2929.14 of the Revised Code. All prison terms may be ended in the manner provided by law, but no prison term shall exceed the maximum term provided for the felony of which the prisoner was convicted as extended pursuant to section 2929.141 or 2967.28 of the Revised Code.

If a prisoner is sentenced for two or more separate felonies, the prisoner's term of imprisonment shall run as a concurrent sentence, except if the consecutive sentence provisions of sections 2929.14 and 2929.41 of the Revised Code apply. If sentenced consecutively, for the purposes of sections 5145.01 to 5145.27 of the Revised Code, the prisoner shall be held to be serving one continuous term of imprisonment.

If a court imposes a sentence to a state correctional institution for a felony of the fourth or fifth degree, the department of rehabilitation and correction, notwithstanding the court's designation of a state correctional institution as the place of service of the sentence, may designate that the person sentenced is to be housed in a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse if authorized pursuant to section 5120.161 of the Revised Code.

If, through oversight or otherwise, a person is sentenced to a state correctional institution under a definite term for an offense for which a definite term of imprisonment is not provided by statute, the sentence shall not thereby become void, but the person shall be subject to the liabilities of such sections and receive the benefits thereof, as if the person had been sentenced in the manner required by this section.

As used in this section, "prison term" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 52 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1954–2023 · leading case: State v. Henderson (Slip Opinion), 2020 Ohio 4784 (Ohio 2020).
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State v. Henderson (Slip Opinion), 2020 Ohio 4784 (Ohio 2020). · cites it 10× “] Criminal law—State cannot challenge a voidable sentence through a postconviction motion for resentencing—R.C. 5145.01 cannot be read to give correctional institutions the power to transform a sentence from what the sentencing entry expressly contains—A judgment or sentence is…”
State v. Harper (Slip Opinion), 2020 Ohio 2913 (Ohio 2020). · cites it 2× “{¶ 35} Neither Beasley nor Jordan nor their progeny have persuasively explained why a sentencing error implicating the separation-of-powers doctrine renders any part of the sentence void ab initio, as we have long recognized that other failures to comply with statutory mandates…”
State v. Bates, 887 N.E.2d 328 (Ohio 2008). · cites it 2× “We note that R.C. 5145.01, which addresses the duration of sentences, provides a presumption of concurrent sentences unless the consecutive-sentences provisions of R.”
State v. Steidl, 2011 Ohio 2320 (Ohio Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 4× “Steidl, he was entitled to a presumption of concurrent sentences under Section 5145.01 of the Ohio Revised Code.”
State v. Chapman, 2016 Ohio 8151 (Ohio Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 5× “R.C. 5145.01 provides that [i]f, through oversight or otherwise, a person is sentenced to a state correctional institution under a definite term for an offense for which a definite term of imprisonment is not provided by statute, the sentence shall not thereby become void, but…”
State v. Lauharn, 2011 Ohio 4292 (Ohio Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 7× “Because the determinate sentence will be treated as an indeterminate sentence under R.C. 5145.01, we will reverse and remand only for the trial court to correct its sentencing entry with 2 respect to Count 6 to reflect that the sentence, by operation of R.”
State v. Teagardren, 2018 Ohio 3767 (Ohio Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 16× “Appellant now argued the trial court’s imposition of the sentence of 10 years to life upon Count I is void pursuant to R.C. 5145.01. The trial court overruled the motion on November 21, 2017.”
State ex rel. Lanham v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth., 687 N.E.2d 283 (Ohio 1997). · cites it 2× “Third, relators’ claims for correction of their prison records based on R.C. 5145.01 and 5145.02, the good-time credit provisions of former R.”
State v. Beasley, 471 N.E.2d 774 (Ohio 1984). “R.C. 5145.01 states that the court shall impose no term of imprisonment “* * * less than the minimum term provided [by statute] for such felony.”
State v. Christian (Slip Opinion), 2020 Ohio 828 (Ohio 2020). “191(A) (mandating that the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction reduce an offender’s stated prison term by the amount of time she previously spent in confinement); see also R.”
State ex rel. Lanham v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth., 1997 Ohio 104 (Ohio 1997). · cites it 2× “{¶ 6} Third, relators’ claims for correction of their prison records based on R.C. 5145.01 and 5145.02, the good-time credit provisions of former R.”
Davis v. Dept. of Rehab. & Corr., 2014 Ohio 4589 (Ohio Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 3× “This remedy is unavailable due to R.C. 5145.01, which provides that a prisoner serving consecutive sentences "shall be held to be serving one continuous term of imprisonment.”
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