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| Official: Addiction epidemic filling Ohio prisons |
| By zanesvilletimesrecorder.com |
| Published: 05/14/2014 |
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COLUMBUS — The state’s drug addiction epidemic is thwarting efforts to reduce the inmate population through changes to sentencing laws, the Ohio prisons director said Tuesday during budget testimony. Judges trying to keep low-level offenders out of prison are forced to take action after seeing an offender relapse several times, the prisons official, Gary Mohr, told the Senate Finance Committee. “They kept coming back, and at some point in time, judges said: ‘I have to vacate this probation and send you to prison,’ ” Mohr said. Read More. |
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