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The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (commonly referred to as Lucasville) is a maximum security prison located just outside Lucasville in Scioto County, Ohio. The prison was constructed in 1972. The prison was constructed in 1972.
Lucasville was laid out by Captain John Lucas (1788-1825) in 1819, and named for him. [5] A post office called Lucasville has been in operation since 1828. [6] John Lucas was the brother of Robert Lucas, a War of 1812 hero, two-term governor of Ohio (1832-1836), and the first territorial governor of Iowa. John volunteered for service and ...
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 ...
In January 2011, three men on Ohio's death row, Keith LaMar, Jason Robb and Carlos Sanders, held a twelve-day long hunger strike.The reason for the strike was that they were not receiving equal treatment and privileges as the other death row prisoners, which LaMar, Robb and Sanders believed was because they were placed on death row due to their involvement in a 1993 prison riot at the Southern ...
It is one of the largest in the state, drawing approximately 75,000 visitors each year (the single-day record is 17,000). [29] The first county fair was held in 1828; [30] in 1908 Lucasville became the official site when three fairs (Mount Joy, Portsmouth and Lucasville) merged into one. [31] The Roy Rogers' Homecoming Festival is held each June.
Lucasville cemetery Location of Valley Township in Scioto County Coordinates: 38°53′14″N 82°59′19″W / 38.88722°N 82.98861°W / 38.88722; -82
April 11 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
Lucasville can refer to: Lucasville, Ohio; Lucasville, Ontario; Lucasville, Nova Scotia; Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (commonly referred to as Lucasville)