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On April 11, 1993, a major riot broke out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility that resulted in ten deaths. [4] Nine inmates and one corrections officer were killed. [4] In 2019, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reported that the department's inspection office had a single full-time employee, and used interns to conduct inspections. [2]
Coffee Correctional Facility is a privately operated, medium-security prison for mostly men, [1] [2] owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections. The facility was built in 1998 in Nicholls, Coffee County, Georgia, [3] and renovated in 2009. The maximum capacity of the prison is 3032 inmates. [4]
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.
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is a women's prison and prisoner intake center in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. [2] [3] Operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections, the 1,684-bed facility opened in 2001 at a 108-acre (0.44 km 2) campus. The selection of the location for the prison was controversial and included legal challenges.
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OSP does retain death row cells for inmates who are considered the highest security risk. As of 2019, six high security death row inmates remain at OSP, four of whom were involved in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. [1] [2] Ohio State Penitentiary currently holds level 5, 4, 3 and 1 inmates.
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 ...
Ross Correctional Institution (RCI) is an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) close security state prison for men located in Union Township, Ross County, Ohio, near Chillicothe, Ohio, [1] adjacent to the medium-security Chillicothe Correctional Institution and the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.