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Union To Protest Closure Of Prison Farms
By radio.wosu.org- Esther Honig
Published: 05/16/2016

Outside the Marion Correctional Institute, Ohio prison employees on Monday will protest the closure of the state's 10 prison farms.

The Ohio Department of Corrections recently announced that the farms would be decommissioned at the end of 2016.

On Monday, the dairy cows on the Marion prison farm are scheduled to be transferred and auctioned off. It's the first step in dismantling the ten Ohio prison farms that have been in operation for last 100 years.

Christopher Mabe is the president of the Ohio Civil Service Employee Association, which represents the 56 individuals who will be out of work once the farms close.

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