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Johnson's Island is a 300-acre (120 ha) island in Sandusky Bay, located on the coast of Lake Erie, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the city of Sandusky, Ohio.It was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate officers captured during the American Civil War.
Lake Erie was the first sale of a state prison in the United States to a private company. [3] In 2012, Ohio state auditors deducted $500,000 from its contract at Lake Erie for violations such as understaffing, which had given rise to a high rate of violence and smuggled drugs. [3]
Prison visitation, in which someone held in prison is allowed to meet non-prisoners, is allowed in many jurisdictions, although rules differ by jurisdiction [1] and it may be considered either a privilege or a right. [2] Studies have evaluated its effect on recidivism.
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In 2011, responding to an initiative from the State of Ohio to reduce "overhead costs by saving $13 million annually while adding 700 beds to house inmates in the overcrowded system," CCA agreed to buy the Lake Erie Correctional Institution for $72.7 million. This is a change in company policy, as previously CCA had always constructed its own ...
A former Erie County Prison corrections officer accused of punching a shackled inmate at the prison in late June waived his criminal case to court at his preliminary hearing on Monday.. Mark A ...
The suit is one of three filed in U.S. District Court in Erie since January 2019 over the death of an Erie County Prison inmate. One of those cases also ended with a confidential settlement, and ...
Hope Taft, wife of Bob Taft who was the Governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007, approached the administration at Pickaway Correctional Institution in 2000 regarding the establishment of a reading room for children who visit the prison. The idea spread statewide and the room has been built in all 32 institutions that comprise the Department of ...