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All Ohio Prison Guards to Wear Body Cams
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2022
by Keith Sanders
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2022, page 33
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Police State-Surveillance,
Civil Rights Violations.
Location:
Ohio.
by Keith Sanders
In January 2022, the Ohio Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation began requiring the state’s 5,000 prison guards to don body-worn cameras. Supplied by Axon, the “body cams,” which complement over 1,000 security cameras already installed in Ohio’s 28 state prisons, will cost almost $7 million the first ...
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