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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
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.
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 ...
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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.
The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history.
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.
April 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fatal shooting of an Ohio officer during a training exercise at a state corrections department facility earlier this month is being ...