On behalf of the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, CCNO Executive Director Dennis Sullivan filed suit against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) in the Ohio Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon. The underlying dispute is over who should accept the risks of COVID-19 exposure among inmates who have received prison sentences for felony convictions. The pre-pandemic Ohio Revised Code states that county jails like CCNO have five working days to transfer inmates to a state prison once they have received their sentence. But ODRCâs post-pandemic âOrder 20-01,â issued in March, allows state prisons to refuse inmates with COVID-19 symptoms or a history of COVID-19 exposure. That is, if one inmate from one county jail tests positive for COVID-19, ODRC may refuse to accept all future inmates from that jail.