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New Report Cites Improvements at Troubled Ohio Prison
Loaded on June 3, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2015, page 34
Filed under:
Prison/Jail Murders,
Statistics/Trends,
Failure to Protect (General),
Overcrowding,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
Ohio.
New Report Cites Improvements at Troubled Ohio Prison
Prisoner-on-staff assaults at the Toledo Correctional Institution (TOCI) in Ohio continued to rise in fiscal year 2014, but a recent report from a state inspection team indicates the facility has made improvements in other areas, and prisoner-on-prisoner assaults have declined significantly.
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