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Articles by Staughton Lynd

The Lucasville Trials

[Editors' note: The identity of persons who provided information to the author confidentially has been withheld. ]

On April 21, 1993, 407 prisoners who for eleven days had occupied the L cell block at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio, surrendered to authorities. Nine prisoners and one ...