'No Attica for Ohio'

Did you know that conditions are so bad at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, the maximum security prison, that prisoners actually ask to be placed in isolation as protection from forcible homosexual rape, it is so common there? Some prisoners carry knives and stabbing incidents are frequent. There are insufficient jobs and training programs for those prisoners who want them. Overcrowding is bad and growing worse. Food is barely edible. Guards have been on strike.

Does this sound like an explosive situation? If you are concerned, if you care, please write to Gov. James A. Rhodes and tell him that we, as Ohio citizens, will not tolerate these conditions in our penal institutions. I have. We don't want another “Attica” here.

IDA M. CALLAN

316 E. Broadway, Girard, O.