An imposing structure: the Ohio State Penitentiary is both a supermaximum security prison and now also the new home for Ohio's death row.

Ohio State Penitentiary is a supermax prison in Youngstown, Ohio. February 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → 28 February 2006 (Tuesday) Al Askari Mosque bombing: Sixty-eight people have been killed so far today in Baghdad, Iraq. ... Image File history File links OSP.JPG http://www. ... Image File history File links OSP.JPG http://www. ... Supermax is the name used to describe control-unit prisons, the most secure prisons in the prison systems of the United States and other countries. ... Official website: http://www. ...

The Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown is designed to hold the state’s most dangerous prisoners who have poor conduct records. Youngstown most notably refers to a city in the United States to the northeast of the state of Ohio, with a population just below 80,000. ...

Prisoners are locked in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, in concrete cells measuring 7½-by-11 feet. Each cell has a sink and toilet, small desk, concrete stool and concrete slab with a thin mattress. Solitary confinement, colloquially referred to as the hole, is a punishment in which a prisoner is denied contact with any other persons, excluding guards and doctors. ...

Ohio is one of only two states to disqualify supermax prisoners from eligibility for parole. Prisoners at Youngstown’s OSP are typically locked under solitary confinement until they “max out” (jailhouse slang for the end of a sentence). Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 34th 116,096 km² 355 km 355 km 8. ... Parole can have different meanings depending on the context. ...

In 2002, the American Civil Liberties Union won a significant legal victory when a federal district court ruled that the state must follow strict due-process guidelines before sending prisoners to Ohio’s only supermaximum-security prison in Youngstown. The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is a non-governmental organization (NGO) whose stated goal is to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person . ...

The number of inmates at the Ohio State Penitentiary dropped dramatically after a court-ordered review of individual cases determined that two-thirds of the prisoners did not meet the criteria for such restrictive confinement.

The supermax was built to house 502 inmates but did not lay off employees even as the population fell to below 250 prisoners. Supermax is the name used to describe control-unit prisons, the most secure prisons in the prison systems of the United States and other countries. ...

In October 2005, a federal judge ruled that the state can move death row to its supermax facility in Youngstown, while cautioning that he will be monitoring prison officials’ efforts to make promised changes to the prison.

A majority of Ohio’s death-row prisoners has now been transferred to the Youngstown supermax. Before the move, the 194 men on death row were housed at Mansfield Correctional Institution, where death row was moved after the 1993 riots at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Executions have not been moved and still take place at the Lucasville facility. Lucasville is a census-designated place located in Scioto County, Ohio. ...

Before the 1980s, the Ohio Penitentiary was a major prison in Columbus, Ohio. It was finally razed in the early 90s to make way for the Arena District in Columbus. During its reign as Ohio's top prison, the penitentiary hosted many notable prisoners including the murderer Dr. James H. Snook (inventor of the "snook hook" of veterinary fame and an Olympic gold medalist in Antwerp) before his execution, and the novelist O. Henry (for embezzling). =hiddenStructure style=font-size: smaller; text-align: center; Nickname: The Arch City The Discovery City Motto: Official website: http://www. ... The Arena District is a 75 acre mixed-use urban infill, master planned development located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. ... William Sydney Porter in his thirties O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862–June 5, 1910), whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term O. Henry Ending. Note that his middle name at birth was Sidney, not Sydney...

The H Unit of Ohio State Penitentiary, together with the Oak Park Heights maximum security facility in Stillwater, Minnesota, was featured in an one hour TV documentary titled "Maximum Security Prisons", produced by Alan Hall (Beyond Productions) for the "On the Inside" series of the Discovery Channel. Constructed in 1982, the Minnesota Correctional Facility - Oak Park Heights (MCF-OPH) is located in the city of Bayport, Minnesota. ...

External links

• [1] Bill Nichols, "Contemplating Torture," Prisonersolidarity.org,

Jan. 27, 2006.

• [2] Andrew Welsh-Huggins, "Federal judge allows state to move death row to Youngstown," The Associated Press, Oct. 4, 2005
• [3] Daniel Sturm, "Ohio's Abu Ghraib," Znet, Aug. 3, 2005
• [4] Staughton and Alice Lynd, "Prison Advocacy in a Time of Capital Disaccumulation," The Monthly Review, August 2001.