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| Populations in prisons keep rising |
| By mansfieldnewsjournal.com- Linda Martz |
| Published: 05/15/2014 |
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Ohio’s drug addiction epidemic has made it difficult to continue reducing the inmate population in the state’s prisons — and resulted in reopening a 160-bed unit that was shut down at a local prison nine years ago. Judges trying to keep low-level felony offenders out of prison have been forced to act after seeing them relapse several times, especially in very rural counties with fewer resources for successful re-entry, Ohio’s prisons director Gary Mohr said Tuesday. “They kept coming back, and at some point in time, judges said, ‘I have to vacate this probation and send you to prison,’” Mohr told the Senate Finance Committee during budget testimony. Read More. |
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