MILESTONES

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HONORS

Officer of the year

William Tungate has been selected by his peers as the Ohio State Penitentiary corrections officer of the year. He will compete in May to become Ohio’s corrections officer of the year.

“Officer Tungate goes above and beyond his job duties” in training and mentoring new officers, and he has provided security-enhancing recommendations on prisoner-movement and restraint procedures, said OSP Warden Jay Forshey.

Tungate has coordinated a 47-hospital training exercise at Salem Regional Medical Center and participated in OSP’s honor guard at the Greater Cleveland Peace Officers Memorial.

An Army National Guard veteran, he is Boy Scout Troop 6 committee chairman in Salem and a member of the Knights of Columbus.

Built in 1998 and employing a staff of 327, OSP, which is known as the Supermax prison, houses 447 inmates, most of them at the maximum-security level.

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