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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 State Penitentiary (OSP) is a 502-inmate capacity supermax Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction prison in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. Throughout the last two centuries, there have been two institutions with the name Ohio Penitentiary or Ohio State Penitentiary; the first prison was in Columbus, Ohio .
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 ...
A corrections officer at an Ohio prison was killed Christmas day when an inmate attacked him, authorities said Wednesday.. The assault occurred Wednesday morning at the Ross Correctional ...
The Ohio man held in a dry cell for 55 days in a state prison described it as torture and says it is still tormenting him. ... Jr. said state employees called him names, such as Stinky, refused to ...
Mike Davis, 64, had been sentenced in May 2020 to a minimum of four years in prison. He could be released from an Ohio prison in May.
The Residential Treatment Unit (RTU) is a special facility that also provides psychiatric assistance for inmates who have difficulty living in the general prison population and are admitted to this program not only from within the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution but from other correctional institutions in Ohio as well.
Protective custody (PC) is a type of imprisonment (or care) to protect a person from harm, either from outside sources or other prisoners. [1] Many prison administrators believe the level of violence, or the underlying threat of violence within prisons, is a chief factor causing the need for PC units.