Judge refuses inmate's request for jail

YOUNGSTOWN -- Frederick Harris stood before a judge Wednesday and practically begged to be put in the Mahoning County Jail, but the judge refused.
Instead, he was sent back to the Ohio State Penitentiary, known as the Supermax on the city's East Side, where he's serving eight years for weapons violations.
Harris, 39, was indicted in August by a county grand jury on three counts of harassment by an inmate. Authorities said he threw his own feces on prison guards.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven months in prison by Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of common pleas court.
Under Ohio law, he gets credit for time he's been locked up while waiting for trial.
He's been in the penitentiary since his indictment, so he won't have to serve any more time, Judge Krichbaum said. That wasn't what Harris wanted to hear, though.
"Can I stay in the county jail for at least a week?" he asked. "That would be such a relief."
Inmates at the state prison here spend 23 out of every 24 hours in their cells.
But the judge said he can't pull Harris out of prison to do a stretch, even a short one, in the county lockup.