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Lucasville Five Hunger Strike Begins - An Interview With Author Staughton Lynd by t he Angola 3 News

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Lucasville Five Hunger Strike Begins - An Interview With Author Staughton Lynd by Angola 3 News Sunday, 02 January 2011 18:37 In 1993, the maximum security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio was the site of an historic prisoner rebellion, where more than 400 prisoners seized and controlled a major area of the prison for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants and one hostage correctional officer named Robert Vallandingham, were murdered. Following a negotiated surrender, five key figures in the rebellion were tried and sentenced to death. Known since as the Lucasville Five, they are Namir Abdul Mateen (James Were), Siddique Abdullah Hasan (Carlos Sanders), Bomani Hando Shakur (Keith Lamar), George Skatzes and Jason Robb...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).