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CCA Prison Off to a Rocky Start
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1997, page 21
In its first five weeks of operation, the CCA-owned and operated Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NOCC) in Youngstown was locked down three times. According to warden Willis Gibson, the first lockdown occurred on May 30 after 50 Washington D.C. prisoners, apparently unhappy about their transfer, had to be forced into ...
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Failure to Protect (General),
Lockdowns,
Guards/Staff,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
Ohio.
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