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The Richland Correctional Institution (RiCI) is a state prison for men located in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The facility was opened in 1998, and houses a maximum of 2613 inmates at a mix of minimum and medium security levels. [1]
The Ohio Attorney General's Office is taking over the case of a former Richland County corrections officer accused of causing the death of a jail inmate.
Richland Correctional Institution is a minimum and medium security prison at 1001 Olivesburg Road and has 2,579 inmates as of June, according to ODRC spokeswoman JoEllen Smith.
Ohio's Richland Correctional Institution is also located in Mansfield. The facility opened in 1990 and has a capacity of 2,523 inmates. [ 1 ] In 2005 the state's death row inmates were transferred from Mansfield to the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, Ohio . [ 2 ]
Ohio's prison system is the sixth-largest in America, with 27 state prisons and three facilities for juveniles. In December 2018, the number of inmates in Ohio totaled 49,255, with the prison system spending nearly $1.8 billion that year. [2] ODRC headquarters are located in Columbus. [3]
On any given night, about 16,500 people are held in Ohio's 89 jails and jailers book about 300,000 people each year - though some of them may be booked in multiple times.
The Richland County sheriff and two longtime former Richland County Sheriff's Office employees are competing in the March 19 Republican primary for a four-year term in office.
The Richland County commissioners continue to hold 2024 budget hearings. The Sheriff's Office and Common Pleas Court are both seeking increases.