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Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Union's Challenge to Prison Privatization
Loaded on Dec. 28, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Management and Training Corporation,
Guard Unions.
Location:
Ohio.
by Matt Clarke
On February 11, 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association's (OCSEA) challenge to the statute allowing for the private operation or sale of certain Ohio state prisons. In doing so, the court rejected the union's claim that the statute violated …
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