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| Memorial to Prison Riot Unveiled |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/03/2005 |
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Last week, Ohio officials unveiled a new memorial to the 1993 riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The uprising left 10 dead, cost the state millions in compensation and put five inmates on death row. The state already has a small memorial in front of the Lucasville prison, about 90 miles south of Columbus. The new memorial will be in a small employee recognition park at the Orient Correctional Complex south of Columbus, and honors the riot's impact on the entire Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Eight new prisons opened after the riot, helping ease overcrowding, though the state has since closed two facilities to save money. Lawmakers banned some weightlifting equipment in prisons after it was found that inmates used weights to smash through stairwell walls. Plans were made for the new memorial at the riot's 10-year anniversary and donations raised from employees to cover the $60,000 cost. The memorial consists of a pair of walls intersecting at an angle, topped with a prism and centered on a brick walk. There was tension inside the prison in the days leading up to the riot because some Muslim inmates claimed planned tuberculosis inoculations went against their religious beliefs. The only guard killed, Robert Vallandingham, was strangled on April 15, 1993, by two inmates under orders from Carlos Sanders, now on death row for the crime, according to court records. |
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