Name not reported

A person held at Vaughn Correctional Center, a state prison, was killed in February 2017 during a brief takeover of the facility. Truthout, writing in April 2018, described the killing as a recent example of retaliation after a prison protest. The death is attributed to homicide in the records, and no official account of it has been given.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. News reports say fellow prisoners killed a man during a brief takeover at Vaughn Correctional Center in February 2017.

Reported by: news reporting on the Vaughn Correctional Center takeover (reporters).

Source

• Twenty-Five Years After the Lucasville Uprising, Its Survivors Are Leading a New Prison Resistance Movement Colleen Hackett and Ben Turk, Truthout, April 26, 2018