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Ohio Prison Riot. This April 21, 1993 file photo shows inmates raising their hands in surrender as armed guards watch on the recreation yard of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.
This background is based on the information contained in Staughton Lynd’s book, Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising, various other sources, and correspondence with prisoners involved. Here is a detailed factual timeline of events based on testimony and evidence presented in court. Staughton is also putting together a series of essays leading up to the 20th anniversary.
Lucasville is the location of the Scioto County Fairgrounds. The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Ohio's sole maximum security prison and the location of Ohio's death house where death row inmates are executed, is located just outside Lucasville. Lucasville is served by the Portsmouth Public Library, as well as the Valley Local School District and Northwest Local School District.
Even if there is no additional carnage, Lucasville is the bloodiest U.S. prison uprising since 33 inmates died in a riot at the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe 13 years ago. Inmates.
One of the most violent and horrific responses to a prison riot occurred in 1992 at Carandiru Penitentiary in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At the time, Carandiru was the largest prison in Latin America, and it was horribly overcrowded. Even though the facility was built to house 3,500 inmates, its population had ballooned to 7,300. Because violence was ready to explode at any moment, the facility was.
In this essay Mumia contrasts what happened at Lucasville with the much greater loss of life at Attica in 1971. The Lucasville Five, he writes, worked, against great odds, to prevent an Attica (where over thirty men perished when the state unleashed deadly violence against the hostages taken, and falsely blamed it on the prisoners). They sought to minimize violence, and indeed, according to.
Once the situation at Lucasville has ended, Davis said the eight-member prison inspection committee would attempt to determine the cause of the riot, and determine, with input from staff and.