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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 ...
The Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) is a state prison for women owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in Marysville, Ohio. It opened in September 1916, when 34 female inmates were transferred from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. [1] ORW is a multi-security, state facility.
A state prison in northeast Ohio says that for the first time in the state's history, a five-course meal has been served to members of the public with food prepared by incarcerated men from fruits ...
Body camera footage shows how a state employee driving a utility vehicle through the yard of a women's prison hit an inmate. Inmate hit by vehicle driven by officer at Ohio women's prison, video shows
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 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.
The Dayton Correctional Institution is a state prison for women located in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, opened in 1987, owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. [1] The facility holds a maximum of 938 female inmates at various security levels.