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In January 2011, three men on Ohio's death row, Keith LaMar, Jason Robb and Carlos Sanders, held a twelve-day long hunger strike.The reason for the strike was that they were not receiving equal treatment and privileges as the other death row prisoners, which LaMar, Robb and Sanders believed was because they were placed on death row due to their involvement in a 1993 prison riot at the Southern ...
The 2016 U.S. prison strike was a prison work stoppage that began on September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising. [1] The strike occurred in 24 states, and over 24,000 prisoners took part in the strike. [2] The involvement of 24,000 prisoners made this strike the largest ever recorded in the U.S.
On January 3, 2011, LaMar and Sanders began a twelve-day, liquid-only hunger strike at the Ohio State Penitentiary supermax prison in Youngstown, Ohio. [28] On January 4, 2011, Robb joined the hunger strike. [28] The three death-row inmates were living in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.
An October 2022 riot at the Ohio Department of Youth Services' Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility in Massillon started when a new employee opened a cell door for a teen who asked for water.
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The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC or ODRC) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government responsible for oversight of Ohio State Correctional Facilities, along with its Incarcerated Individuals. [1] Ohio's prison system is the sixth-largest in America, with 27 state prisons and three facilities for juveniles.
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. The state had built a small prison in Columbus in 1813, but as the state's population grew the earlier facility was not able to handle the number of prisoners sent to ...