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Debate: releasing prisoners on medical grounds
By crescent-news.com- Marc Kovac
Published: 03/06/2015

COLUMBUS -- Two Ohio prison inmates are technically brain dead and are being kept on life support until their release dates a decade from now.

They're among 58 inmates with "significant medical issues" whose release could save the state more than $1 million annually, the head of the state prison system told a lawmaker panel Thursday.

"I don't know that those folks have the ability to feel (punishment)]," Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Director Gary Mohr told a House Finance subcommittee.

Among other provisions included in Gov. John Kasich's biennial budget proposal is language that would provide judges with discretion to release certain inmates from prison on medical grounds.

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