Mansfield Leads State with Inmate Grievances The Correctional Institution Inspection Committee reports of Ohio’s 27 prisons, Mansfield Correctional Institute (MANCI) had the highest number of inmate grievances. The 637 inmate grievances covered issues ranging from food quality with fewest inmate grievances to health care as the most common grievance. MANCI houses only 4.9 percent […]
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Jobs not prison
Jobs not prison Since 2011, 132 parents who were indicted for criminal nonsupport of their children found a better alternative than going to prison – a job. Thanks to the Success Through Employment Program, operated by the Clermont County Common Pleas Adult Probation Department, these men and women are working and helping to support […]
Prison Donates Water
Prison Donates Water As reported by the ABC news affiliate “6 On Your Side”: Toledo’s recent water woes are well reported. As the governor mobilizes the National Guard to truck in water and various relief agencies like the Red Cross spring into action an unlikely agency is also helping out. Over the weekend, the […]
Ohio women prison population exploding
Drug-related crimes in rural counties fuel rise in women prison population As reported on the Brucyrus Telegraph Forum: 8/3/2014 Last month, Ohio set a record for the number of women behind bars, and drugs are to blame, officials said. State prisons director Gary Mohr said he is alarmed by the increasing number of women […]