Prison Rape Stats Stun Ohio Director

The director of Ohio's prison system has asked his staff for more information after being surprised by the number of staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct allegations that showed up on a federal survey released last week.

Director Terry Collins of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said Monday "it jumped out at me" when the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported there were 89 accusations of staff misconduct in Ohio prisons in 2006. Only four of these cases were substantiated, with 78 deemed unsubstantiated and six unfounded. Another case was still under investigation.

The Ohio system also had 67 reported cases of inmate-on-inmate "nonconsensual sexual acts" — 16 of which were substantiated. There were almost 45,000 inmates in Ohio in mid-2006. Today, that number is roughly 49,000.

Dayton News