Browsing: April 11

A Brief History On April 11, 1993, prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (Lucasville, Ohio) began a terrifying and deadly riot! Digging Deeper “Lucasville” was built in 1972 to house dangerous felons.  The usual miserable prison conditions of overcrowding and racial tensions erupted into a riot when African-American prisoners were forced to submit to inoculations for tuberculosis in defiance of the teachings of The Nation of Islam (Black Muslim) religion that many belonged to.  Of the 1,800+ prisoners (hundreds over capacity) 450 took part in the riot and subsequent siege. A cracked angle to this riot was the unusual…