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| State officials, guards' union at odds over security at Mansfield prison |
| By dispatchpolitics.com |
| Published: 11/03/2009 |
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State prison officials and the union representing corrections officers are at odds over alleged security problems at the Mansfield Correctional Institution. The union said that a cache of 30 "shanks," or homemade knives, was found in a broom closet and a cell at the prison. A spokeswoman for the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction acknowledged that weapons were found, but she said the number was less than half what was reported by the union. The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association set up an informational picket line and called for a prisoner lockdown yesterday to protest "dangerous conditions" at the Mansfield prison. The union also said that there were 43 assaults by inmates on staff members in the past three months, an all-time high for the prison. However, state spokeswoman Julie Walburn said there were 16 assaults, none of them resulting in serious injury, over the same period. "We aren't minimizing the severity of those assaults," Walburn said. "But we don't see any reason to believe this institution has more problems than any other Level 3 institution." Read More. |
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