Ohio close to decision on relocating death row

September 30, 2011 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

Ohio is close to a decision on relocating death row to save money and open up beds for violent inmates, with a southern Ohio prison under serious consideration.

The move would be the third time the state has moved the home of Ohio’s condemned inmates since 1981.

The Columbus Dispatch reported Thursday that the move would free up 80 guards now working on death row.

The move would bring together 117 death row inmates currently housed at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown and 29 housed at Mansfield Correctional Institution.