Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

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The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, United States. The prison was constructed in 1972 and currently contains the death house for Ohio where death row inmates are executed. The current warden is Phil Kerns. The prison has 1,460 inmates as of March 2008.

[edit] 1993 riot

On Easter Sunday, April 11, 1993, 450 Lucasville prisoners rioted and continued for ten days, until the 21st. The main causes apparently were serious overcrowding and mismanagement of the facility and discontent in the general population that the authorities were going to force Muslim prisoners to undergo tuberculosis vaccinations in violation of their religious beliefs. Nine inmates and one Corrections Officer were killed. Following the events of the riots, all death row inmates at the facility were moved to a prison in Mansfield and later to the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown.

A song based on the incident was written and recorded by Native American Folk singer & songwriter Steve Free entitled "Seige At Lucasville".