Featured Prison: Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

A maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is home to Ohio's death house, where they execute death row inmates.

The prison opened in 1972 has about 1350 inmates and 671 staff. On site, it runs a farming program and the harvested crops are donated to a homeless shelter.

In 1993, a riot broke out at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, during which the prison was controlled by 450 inmates. Several factors contributed to causing the riot, including overcrowding and "discontent in the general population that the authorities were going to force Muslim prisoners to undergo tuberculosis vaccinations in violation of their religious beliefs. During negotiations, the inmates did not feel they were being taken seriously, and voted as a group to kill an Officer in retaliation. They handcuffed Officer Vallandingham, who they had taken hostage, and killed him by strangling him with a dumbell from the prison weight room. During those eleven days, representatives from the Sunni Muslims, Aryan Brotherhood, and Gangster Disciples met every day in an improvised leadership council." (Wikipedia). $40 million dollars in damage is said to have been caused by the riot. Since the riot, the prison is said to be haunted.

As the home of Ohio state executions, this prison has been in the spotlight lately. The state of Ohio has halted executions until the lethal injection procedure is overhauled in an attempt to avoid another botched execution. Last month, Ohio botched the execution of Romell Broom, making it the first time in modern American history that an execution has been abandoned after it began. A grueling, painful two hours after it began.

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility - Ohio DRC

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility/Prison-Lucasville, Ohio - Prison Talk

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

Haunted Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility Riot

Another week to live: Ohio delays execution of Romell Broom after officials can't find inmate's usable vein | Mail Online

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