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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]
In October of 195, the first group of permanent inmates from the Ohio Penitentiary was relocated to Marion. [1] Marion Correctional Institution boasts a rich history of inventive inmate programs. In the 1970s, it hosted the unit-managed "Project Newgate" initiative, which introduced college programming for Ohio inmates.
The facility has been owned and operated by CoreCivic and its predecessor, Corrections Corporation of America, since 1997. It opened in May 1997 with a short-term contract with the District of Columbia Department of Corrections to house 900 inmates from their notorious Lorton Correctional Complex.
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] Those inmates have since been moved to Chillicothe Correctional Institution.
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.
On October 3, 2011, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections announced that the majority of Ohio's male death row would be relocated to CCI from the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) in Youngstown and Mansfield Correctional Institution in Mansfield, with some high security death row cells being maintained at OSP and inmates with medical issues being held at the Franklin Medical Center ...
A year-long investigation by The Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and USA TODAY Network Ohio examined 219 deaths in jail custody that were reported to the state Department of Rehabilitation ...
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 .