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| Use of force increasing in Ohio youth prisons, report says |
| By dispatch.com- Alan Johnson |
| Published: 05/01/2014 |
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Use-of-force incidents in Ohio youth prisons jumped 11 percent last year to an average of six incidents per juvenile offender, a new state report shows. In addition, there were 2,437 incidents in which mechanical restraints — such as cuffs and straps — were used to incapacitate juveniles for a total of 871 hours. That represented a sharp increase in the number of incidents but a reduction in the total hours in restraints at Ohio Department of Youth Services facilities compared with 2012. Overall, 2,733 incidents of force occurred last year, 1,033 of them at the Circleville Juvenile Correctional Facility where the most-serious juvenile offenders are housed. An average of nine uses of force per offender occurred at Circleville in 2013. Read More. |
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