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Four Ohio Prisoners Shackled to Table Stabbed by Fellow Prisoner

Loaded on Dec. 9, 2019 by Scott Grammer published in Prison Legal News December, 2019, page 28
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement. Location: Ohio.

by Scott Grammer

On June 4, 2017 at the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, four prisoners who were playing cards while shackled to a table in a dayroom area were attacked and stabbed by another prisoner, convicted murderer Greg Reinke.

Surveillance video footage captured the 37-year-old Reinke ...

 

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