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Death-row inmates due in Toledo in ‘near future’
By toledoblade.com- Ryan Dunn
Published: 06/06/2017

A transfer of Ohio’s death row inmates to Toledo Correctional Institution is expected this summer.

More than 100 prisoners awaiting execution will leave the Chillicothe facility for housing at Toledo Correctional Institution. Executions, however, will continue about 200 miles away in Lucasville.

Ryan Jones, president of the union representing Toledo correctional officers, said administrators told him the new inmates are expected this summer. “They are being very extraordinarily tight-lipped about when the actual move will take place,” Mr. Jones said.

In the meantime, the prison slowly is emptying designated housing after inmates’ terms expire in anticipation of the condemned prisoners’ arrivals, Mr. Jones said.

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