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| State plans to move death row |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/28/2005 |
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Ohio moved death row 10 years ago from southern Ohio in the wake of a bloody prison uprising that killed an officer and nine inmates. The state announced last Tuesday it would move the unit for condemned killers again, this time to save money. The move to Youngstown's supermaximum-security prison, scheduled for this summer, is unrelated to an attempted escape from the death row unit at the prison in Mansfield last month or security concerns, said Terry Collins, deputy director of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown already has staff and space to handle the additional inmates, Collins said. The move ``would give us the ability to close the death row unit at Mansfield and therefore be able to meet some of the needs of our budget,'' Collins said. Collins said the move could save millions of dollars but no specific figure was available last Tuesday. Once death row's 100 employees find other jobs in the system, the prison department's work force would be permanently reduced by the same number, Collins said. |
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