The State of Ohio is relocating its death row operations to Chillicothe in an effort to save money by cutting transportation costs and freeing up beds for the states’ most violent inmates.
The move, which would be the third time Ohio has relocated death row since 1981, would save money for the state, which spends $1,200 to transfer an inmate to the execution house at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
Moving inmates from the Mansfield and Youngstown Correctional Institutions would bring 146 inmates to Chillicothe. This move frees up 300 high-security cells in Youngstown and Mansfield for the respective facilities most violent inmates, in effort to make the prisons safer for inmates and staff.
