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As of 2023, the warden is Cindy Davis. The prison is perhaps best known for its April 1993 riot, in which a total of 450 prisoners rioted, resulting in an 11-day standoff between rioters and law enforcement. One corrections officer and nine inmates were killed during the riot. [2]
Teens at an Ohio youth prison rioted last year over being stuck in their rooms, investigators found. The report detailed security issues.
On 11 April 1993, a major riot broke out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility that resulted in ten deaths. Nine inmates and one corrections officer were killed. In 2019, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reported that the department's inspection office had a single full-time employee, and used interns to conduct inspections. Facilities
April 14, 1983. The Ohio State Reformatory ( OSR ), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States. It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until 1990, when a United States Federal Court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed.
Violent fights and assaults, such as this one from June 2022 at Circleville Juvenile Correctional Facility, can erupt at any moment inside Ohio's youth prisons. Violence, staff shortages plague ...
Contents. Ohio Penitentiary. This article is about the demolished prison in Columbus, Ohio. For the current prison in Youngstown, see Ohio State Penitentiary. The Ohio Penitentiary, also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary, was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in what is now known as the Arena District.
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As of 2019, six high security death row inmates remain at OSP, four of whom were involved in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. [1] [2] Ohio State Penitentiary currently holds level 5, 4, 3 and 1 inmates.
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Scioto County, Ohio, United States 10 (9 inmates, 1 officer) 1994, July 12 Robinson Correctional Institution, Enfield, Connecticut, United States 2 inmates 37 injured (35 inmates, 2 correctional officers) Prison Six rebellion: 1997, August 9 Prison Six, near Atlit, Israel: 0
1986 riot. January 1, 1986 was the date of the most infamous riot in the history of the penitentiary. The West Virginia Penitentiary was undergoing many changes and problems, and security had become extremely thin in all areas. Since it was a "cons" prison, most of the locks on the cells had been picked and inmates roamed the halls freely.