| Accession# |
VE4-2009 |
| Catalog date |
11/04/2009 |
| Collection |
OSHP Collection |
| Date of photo |
1993 |
| Description |
On Easter Sunday, April 11, 1993, a fistfight at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville resulted in 11 days of chaos, and 10 people dead - including one prison corrections officer. It remains the longest and the third deadliest prison uprising in United States history.
Convicts took hostage eight corrections officers who tried to stop the original fight. They beat other corrections officers and left them in the recreation yard. The criminals also killed six fellow inmates, claiming they were snitches. Demands from the prisoners issued forth, and negotiations took place. It looked even bleaker on day five, when inmates threw the body of murdered prison corrections officer Robert Vallandingham from a cellblock window.
Several talks with the leaders of the rioting groups took place out in the courtyard throughout the ordeal. But it was not until Cleveland Attorney Niki Schwartz (requested by the inmates to represent them) and Patrol Colonel Tom Rice got involved that negotiations improved. Colonel Rice said that he and Schwartz met in the prison gymnasium with three prisoners, one representing each disgruntled faction - the Black Disciples, the Aryan Brotherhood and Sunni Muslims to finalize the terms of surrender. By day 11, Schwartz, Prison Warden Arthur Tate, and Colonel Rice announced that the siege was over, ending the long and deadly riot. |
| Year Range from |
1993 |
| Category |
8: Communication Artifact |
| Year range to |
1993 |
| Object ID |
VE4-2009-011 |
| Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
| Recfrom |
Michele Vaughan, historian |
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