Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
- Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, United States. The prison was constructed in 1972 and currently contains the death house for Ohio where death row inmates are executed. The current warden is Phil Kerns. The prison has 1,460 inmates as of March 2008.
1993 riot
On Easter Sunday, April 11, 1993, 450 Lucasville prisoners rioted and continued for ten days, until the 21st. The main causes apparently were serious overcrowding and mismanagement of the facility 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. Nine inmates and one Corrections Officer were killed. Following the events of the riots, all death row inmates at the facility were moved to a prison in Mansfield and later to the Ohio State Penitentiary a supermax facility in Youngstown.
A song based on the incident was written and recorded by Native American Folk singer & songwriter Steve Free entitled "Siege At Lucasville".
External links
* [http://www.drc.state.oh.us/Public/socf.htm ODRC's Profile Page on SOCF]
* [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1634 Ohio Historical Society, 2005, "Lucasville Prison Riot", Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History.]
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