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Apr 11, 2017 · Four days into the 1993 prison uprising in Lucasville, an Ohio National Guard soldier stands beside an Ohio State Patrol car outside the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
- What Led Up to The Lucasville Riot?
- How Did The Lucasville Prison Riot End?
- Who Was Killed in The Lucasville Riot?
- Who Was Convicted After The Riot?
- Where Are The Lucasville Five Now?
The siege began that April 11 as tensions and tempers flared at the Scioto County facility. A new warden had introduced new restrictions on prisoner movements. The prison was overcrowded. Muslim inmates were upset they would soon be tested for tuberculosis with an injection that contained alcohol in violation of their religious views. Additionally,...
The uprising ended when prison officials agreed to 21 demands from inmates. No. 2 on the list read: “Administrative discipline and criminal proceedings will be fairly and impartially administered without bias against individuals or groups.” The state largely violated that agreement, according to "Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising" b...
Corrections officer Robert Vallandingham was the sole guard killedin the melee. Inmates strangled the 40-year-old veteran of the Vietnam War on April 15 and threw his body into the recreation yard. The inmates killed in the riot – alleged prison snitches – were Darrell Dapina, Earl Elder, Franklin Farrell, Bruce Harris, David Sommers, Albert Staian...
In the aftermath, 48 inmates were convicted of committing violent crimes during the riot. Five inmates, who prosecutors named as ringleaders, were sentenced to death for their roles. They became known as the Lucasville Five: 1. Carlos A. Sanders, who now goes by Siddique Abdullah Hasan, had begun serving 10 to 25 years for aggravated robbery in Cuy...
Skatzes is incarcerated at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, with 123 other male Ohio death row inmates. (The lone woman on death row is housed at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.) The other four are held at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. All five maintain their innocence and say the state convicted them with faulty...
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Apr 11, 2018 · PHOTOS: 1993 Lucasville prison riot told in front pages. The violence started early. Five inmates - all believed to be prison "snitches" - were brutally beaten to death in the opening hours of...
The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (commonly referred to as Lucasville) is a maximum security prison located just outside Lucasville in Scioto County, Ohio. The prison was constructed in 1972. As of 2023, the warden is Cindy Davis.
Apr 10, 2018 · LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A fight among inmates escalated into a riot Sunday at a maximum security prison, with inmates killing at least five fellow prisoners and holding at least eight guards hostage, authorities said.
Apr 3, 2013 · The riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, was the longest prison siege in U.S. history.
Apr 28, 2023 · 30 years ago this month, one of the longest prison riots in US history finally ended after 11 days. 400 inmates from three gangs at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville held that prison for nearly two weeks, and when the siege was over, one guard and nine inmates were dead.
