Mayor McNally to discuss prison disturbance with CCA officials Friday

YOUNGSTOWN

Mayor John A. McNally is meeting Friday with representatives from Corrections Corporation of America to talk about the company’s obligation to report information to the city in “unusual events.”

McNally said he certainly thinks the event, which started about 2 p.m. Tuesday and continued to 4 a.m. Wednesday, in which 140 inmates at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Hubbard Road refused to leave the prison yard in protest, qualifies as an unusual event.

CCA, based in Tennessee, owns NEOCC, and is one of two privately owned prisons in the state.

The city found out about the incident when the aunt of an inmate at NEOCC contacted the police department, and the department contacted the prison.

“The way things happened isn’t the way it’s supposed to happen,” McNally said. “We want to remind CCA of their obligations to the city under the terms of the agreement.”

It’s especially important to do this now with a new police chief and law director, the mayor added. The agreements have been in place for 12 or 13 years, he said.

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