State Prison Director: Ohio’s Prisons Are Dangerously Overcrowded
Monday, March 30, 2009 at 7:14 AM
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Download MP3Ohio's prisons are dangerously overcrowded. That from the state's prisons directors who says some prisons are at 250 percent capacity. Karen Kasler reports from Columbus.
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