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Award for Prisoners Beaten by OH Guards
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1995, page 14
In April of 1993, the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) at Lucasville, Ohio, erupted in one of the longest, costliest, and most violent prisoner rebellions in recent history. The rebellion brought Lucasville to national attention, but Ohio prisoners and prisoncrats had long been aware of problems leading up to the …
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