Welcome to STAR Community Justice Center

STAR Community Justice Center is a 360 bed American Correctional Association (ACA) accredited male and female Community Based Correctional Facility (CBCF), and one of nineteen such facilities in the State of Ohio.

A Community-Based Correctional Facility is a local alternative to prison with the primary purpose of rehabilitation of non-violent, felony offenders in the nineteen counties that STAR serves. (Adams, Athens, Brown, Clinton, Fairfield, Gallia, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton, and Washington)

Organizational Framework
STAR: Team of Public Servants
STAR’s Mission: To Enhance Public Safety
STAR’s Vision: Empowering Individuals and Strengthening Communities Through Service
and Care
STAR’s Organizational Principles:
a. Achievement – We reach achievement through taking initiative, adapting to
situations, and using every opportunity to grow.
b. Commitment – We are committed to helping others by maintaining acceptance,
being respectful, and showing compassion.
c. Ethical – We remain ethical by acting with integrity, being honest, and remaining
accountable.
d. Responsibility – We act responsibly with the lives with which we are entrusted and
are good stewards of the resources with which we are granted.
e. Servanthood – We embrace our roles as public servants by seeking to meet the
needs in our communities and expecting nothing in return.

STAR Community Justice Center is a minimum security correctional facility. Persons who wish to attend this meeting are encouraged to make reservations with the executive director not less than 24 hours in advance at the below listed address or telephone number.

All persons are subject to security searches of their person and their property, including their vehicle.

No person may bring firearms, dangerous ordinance or weapons of any kind, or controlled substances including tobacco products into the facility or onto the grounds, under penalty of law.