The Pickaway Correctional Institution is a state prison located in Scioto Township, Pickaway County , just outside Orient, Ohio , United States which mostly houses minimum and medium security inmates. PCI was opened as a prison in 1984 after the buildings which formerly housed a facility for Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities had been closed.
7-480: Although the structures were not built to house prisoners, Warden James Jackson modified the condemned buildings into secure housing for inmates. The prison houses 2107 inmates and 511 staff members (out of which 249 are the security staff). Inmates have an opportunity to take classes at Sinclair Community College or learn the printing trade at the OPI Print Shop. In 2000, former Ohio First Lady Hope Taft approached
14-544: A United States prison is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sinclair Community College Sinclair Community College is a public community college in Dayton, Ohio . Sinclair Community College is named for David A. Sinclair, a Scottish immigrant and secretary of the Dayton YMCA (1874–1902), who founded the adult training school that eventually became Sinclair College in 1948. Sinclair Community College
21-650: A bachelor's degree in Information Technology at UC. In March 2013 the college settled a First Amendment lawsuit by revising a speech code that prohibited students and visitors from holding signs on campus. Four years later, in March 2017, the college ordered student Advisors A.J. Owens and Dr. Matt Massie to apologize to Forest Wilson, a student and candidate for Student Senate President concerning Wilson's campaign to get food stamps accepted on campus. Sinclair has 5 regional campus locations throughout Southwest Ohio:
28-634: The Dayton Daily News, in 2013 Sinclair purchased a 3.4 acre addition to the Courseview Campus Center in Mason with the intent of eventually serving 10,000 students there. Also that year, the college opened a second Mason facility, "Building B." In August 2016, Sinclair Community College and the University of Cincinnati signed a partnership allowing Sinclair students attending the Mason campus to pursue
35-546: The Warden about establishing a reading room for the children who visited their incarcerated parents. The reading room opened within a few years and includes an inmate narrator who reads to the visiting children twice a day. As of August 2022 the warden is Rochelle Moore. The most notorious inmates of this prison were Posteal Laskey Jr., the Cincinnati Strangler , until his death by natural causes on May 29, 2007. In 2017,
42-543: The prison made headlines, as 4 inmates overdosed on opioids in a 2-day period. In 2020, the prison again made national headlines as the second largest hotspot of diagnosed COVID-19 cases in the US. 39°48′00″N 83°08′57″W / 39.80000°N 83.14917°W / 39.80000; -83.14917 This article about a building or structure in Ohio is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
49-555: Was featured in a 2009 issue of The New York Times . The article explained how community colleges in the United States , like Sinclair, help to create jobs in an unstable economy. The article also stated that Sinclair is widely known as one of the best community colleges in the region. That year its enrollment was 25,345 students, and the main campus was one of the largest community college campuses in North America. According to
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