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Prison agency seeks high-security facility replacements

by Associated Press
| January 24, 2020 4:35 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio prison system wants to replace or renovate some of its high-security prisons in the near future, saying its current facilities for violent inmates are “functionally obsolete" and creating security risks for the agency, The Associated Press has learned.

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