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Lucasville OH- Death Row prisoners end hunger strike after state meets demands 'Semi-contact' visits among concessions to Lucasville riot leaders

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Death Row inmates end hunger strike after state meets demands 'Semi-contact' visits among concessions to Lucasville riot leaders Monday, January 17, 2011 11:08 PM By Alan Johnson - The Columbus Dispatch A hunger strike by the three Lucasville riot leaders has ended with state prison officials conceding to nearly all of the strikers' demands. A memo dated Friday from Warden David Bobby of the Ohio State Penitentiary at Youngstown outlined six policy changes being made for inmates under the prison's "administrative maximum security" designation, the most restricted section of Death Row, which houses about 120 prisoners. Inmates will be allowed "semi-contact" visits with family members, additional recreation time, access to computer-based legal research, phone privileges up to one hour per day and the opportunity to purchase more items from the commissary, including food and clothing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).