Southern Botanical Facilities (commonly referred to as Lucasville ) is the maximum security prison located outside of Lucasville, Ohio. The prison was built in 1972. The current warden is Ronald Erdos.
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1993 riot
On Easter Sunday, April 11, 1993, 450 prisoners of Lucasville, including an unlikely alliance of prison gangs, the Gangster Disciples, Muslims, and the Aryan Brotherhood, rioted and took over the facility for 11 days. The main cause is the serious density and mismanagement of Muslim facilities and frustrations derived from mandatory tuberculosis testing. In the Captive series of Captive Siddique Abdullah Hasan (Carlos Sanders) inmate Siddique Abdullah Hasan (Carlos Sanders) claimed that Muslim prisoners rejected the test because it contained phenols, and therefore contrary to Islamic restrictions on alcohol handling and consumption. Investigations conducted after the riots found that the gang also collaborated to kill inmates accused of being informants. Nine inmates and one corrective officer were killed.
During the negotiations, the inmates did not feel they were taken seriously and there was discussion about the killing of a corrective officer in retaliation. Although the group has never reached a decision about murder, one of the detainees decided it was time to take action. According to the prosecution, Officer Robert Vallandingham, who was held hostage, was handcuffed and strangled with a dumbbell from the jail chamber. However, testimony by Dr. Richard Fardal, Deputy District Deputy Franklin, denied the claim that the Vallandingham Officer was seriously murdered, saying that "no injury to the ballot box or trachea" and that "Mr. Vallandingham died alone and exclusively as a result of ligature strangulation." Testimonies vary as prisoners which one is responsible for his murder. During the eleven days, representatives of Sunni Muslims, Aryan Brotherhood, and Gangster Disciples meet daily in the improvised leadership board.
Four detainees, Siddique Abdullah Hasan (Carlos Sanders), Jason Robb, George Skatzes, and Namir Abdul Mateen (James Were), were sentenced to death as a result. Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar), not affiliated with the groups mentioned above, was sentenced to death for his alleged leadership of a group that killed inmates during the riots. He denied his leadership and claimed the State of Ohio suppressed evidence that could point to his innocence. He was absent on the L-6 during most of the riots, having been taken from the backyard on the first day by the State authorities and housed in block K.
After the riots, class action was taken against state officials, administrators and staff by a legal team led by civil rights lawyer Al Gerhardstein on behalf of the riot victims. The state paid $ 4.1 million to settle the victims' claims and agreed to a number of non-monetary provisions as well, to correct the density and mismanagement of the facility.
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hunger strike 2011
On January 3, 2011, Bomani Shakur (Keith Lamar) and Siddique Abdullah Hasan (Carlos Sanders) started a two-day, liquid-only hunger strike at maximum security prison in Youngstown, Ohio. On January 4, 2011, Jason Robb joined a hunger strike with fellow Bomani and Siddique inmates. Three death row inmates were sentenced to death for their involvement in the 1993 Lucasville riots and stayed in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. In addition, they are prohibited from using the internet to access legal/news databases, deny access to prison stores, and be banned from any and all physical contact with the family. Bomani, Siddique, and Jason wanted the same treatment as the other death row in Ohio and protested against equal prison conditions. The three death row inmates demanded that they be given extra time outside their cell, physical contact with family members and access to a prison store for additional clothing and food. At the time of the strike, David Bobby, the jailer, concluded that he would not meet the demands of the prisoners. However, on January 14, 2011, warden David Bobby presented the inmates with a signed statement detailing future policy changes. Due to increased public support and pressure from organizations such as human rights and law graduates, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, the prisons are under pressure to change, to which Professor Birmingham O'Hearn is credited as playing a decisive role in the success of hunger strikes. The three prisoners' demands are all provided, including limited physical contact with family, one-hour phone calls a day, and extra time outside the prison cell. On January 15, 2011, Bomani, Siddique, and Jason ended their hunger strike.
Death row
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is a place where Ohio prisoners are executed; however, prisoners awaiting execution are not placed there in the long run. Since the riots, the death penalty of men has been relocated three times. The first relocation was the Mansfield Penitentiary in Mansfield with the majority of the detainees transferred later to the Ohio State Penitentiary, the supermax facility at Youngstown while some remained in Mansfield. Currently, all but eleven condemned prisoners are placed in the new death penalty unit at Chillicothe Prison in Chillicothe. The five high-security inmates, most of whom were involved in the 1993 riots, remained in OSP with two others with serious medical conditions taking place at Franklin Medical Center in Columbus. Donna Roberts, the only woman in a row of Ohio deaths, and a future female prisoner sentenced to death, is being and will be detained at Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.
Leading Prisoner
- T.J. Lane - the shooter of Chardon High School
See also
- The death penalty in Ohio
- Captive , a documentary series in which the 1993 riots were shown
References
External links
- ODRC Profile Page in SOCF
- Ohio Historical Society, 2005, "Lucasville Prison Jail", Ohio History Central: Ohio Online History Encyclopedia
- Hedges, Chris (February 22, 2015). We Killed Our Revolutionaries. (In the April 1993 uprising). Truthdig
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