Ohio prison transfers 150 inmates to ease correctional officer shortages

Journal-News, Hamilton, Ohio

HAMILTON, Ohio — Approximately 150 female inmates were transferred from the Dayton Correctional Institution recently as the facility grapples with the lowest level of correctional officer staffing in Ohio.

The decision was “a matter of operational strategy and population management,” according to JoEllen Smith, an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections spokeswoman…

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