Ohio Investigates Batch Of Homemade Prison Knives
Published: November 2, 2009
MANSFIELD, Ohio—The state is investigating the discovery of homemade knives found in a prison where guards are alleging violent working conditions.
Julie Walburn, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, says the weapons were found in a mop closet at Mansfield Correctional Institution Sunday during a routine search.
Mansfield guards and other employees were picketing outside the prison Monday to protest prison conditions, which they say include a high number of assaults on guards in the last three months.
Ohio prisons are holding about 51,000 inmates or 32 percent above normal capacity.
The prisons department is also eliminating positions and closing some programs to cut its two-year budget by $87.2 million.
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Some of the prisoners face the same abuse by other inmates and the guards too. If some of our Ohio judges would stop sending people to prison that really could do just as well on the outside on probation, the prisons might not be so over crowded! Some of the judges waste a lot of money sending some to prison.
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