Southern Ohio Correctional Facility News

A Chillicothe native who has guided the state correctional system for more than three years and been involved in state service for 33 years will retire from his post Jan.

In this Tuesday, May 27, 2008 file photo, the gurney used to restrain condemned prisoners during the lethal injection process is shown in the Texas death house in Huntsville, Texas.

Tiger Woods' mother-in-law was rushed to a hospital early Tuesday, touching off the second media frenzy in two weeks surrounding the pro golfer's carefully guarded private life.

A day after Ohio became the first state in the country to use a single drug in a lethal injection, the condemned killer whose botched September execution prompted the change from a three-drug method returns to court to argue that another try to put him to death would be unconstitutional.

Convicted killer Kenneth Biros was described as quiet and calm by Southern Ohio Correctional Facility officials Monday afternoon.

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The last time Kenneth Biros made the trip to the Death House, he brought a gold cross necklace, a portable compact disc player with some CDs, a rosary and 20 stamped envelopes.

A condemned killer scheduled to become the first person in the U.S. put to death with a single drug has arrived at the Ohio death house.

The Death House at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is a lone, nondescript brick building, detached from the main prison.

Lucasville's Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is home to Ohio's Death House where the death penalty is administered.

Gov. Ted Strickland has denied clemency for a second time for Trumbull County killer Kenneth Biros.

The day before inmates are scheduled for execution, they are brought to the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility where they spend the final hours of their lives, 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported Monday.

For the first time in 7 years, news crews were allowed into the Death House at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville where convicted killer Kenneth Biros is set to be the first executed under the state's new lethal injection method.

The guard towers at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility have been closed for two shifts each day as part of state budget cuts.

As an execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff sought help from a doctor - a move generally discouraged by ethical and professional medical rules - federal court papers show.

The quaint community of Kirtland was turned upside down back in 1990, when law enforcement personnel found the remains of five members of the Avery family in a rundown barn.

The charges were serious, and so were the consequences -- at least initially. A guard at the Ross Correctional Institution was accused of using a workplace computer to show sexually explicit images to a female co-worker. According to state personnel records, he also made lewd comments to the co-worker about her body -- with an inmate looking on.

Randy Davidson, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, harassment by bodily substance, defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine months' prison sentence concurrent to present sentence and court costs.

MANSFIELD -- A former city corrections officer has lost a second appeal on his 2007 conviction and sentencing for 43 sex crimes against two girls.

Ohio prison officials are considering a major overhaul of death-penalty procedures that might include changing out such key elements as drugs and an execution team.