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| Ohio prison officials look to reintegration programs to ease crowding |
| By cleveland.com- Jeremy Pelzer |
| Published: 01/18/2014 |
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LANCASTER, Ohio—In a warehouse at the Southeastern Correctional Institution, about half an hour southeast of Columbus, there’s not much room for equipment anymore. Instead, the middle part of the building features two long troughs holding thousands of trout destined to become food for penguins and bears at the Columbus Zoo. “If you watch them long enough, you’ll know if a fish is acting funny,” said Jerrod Daniels, a 28-year-old inmate from Washington Court House who was convicted of felonious assault. Daniels is one of about 2,500 inmates in nine Ohio prisons enrolled in a reintegration program, designed to help prisoners nearing release to improve their education, job skills, and well-being so they don’t fall back into the same problems that led them to crime in the first place. Prison officials hope the initiative will help to level off Ohio’s escalating prison population, which is expected to reach a record high 51,601 inmates this year – far beyond what the prison system was designed to hold. Read More. |
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