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Ohio Supreme Court Denies Mandamus to Pro Se Prisoner Seeking Prison Policy-Mandated Public Records That Prison Claims Do Not Exist

Loaded on May 30, 2020

Filed under: Disclosure of Records, Mandamus, Public Records. Locations: Ohio, United States of America.

On May 6, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio denied a petition for a writ of mandamus filed pro se by Jerone McDougald, a prisoner at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF), seeking to compel disclosure of public records required to be made under Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections ...

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