- The Lucasville Five — inmates sentenced to death for their roles in the prison uprising — have proclaimed innocence from the start.
- Prosecutors cut deals to get inmates to snitch on inmates.
- One inmate, convicted for his role in the death of a corrections officer, is now a free man.
Some facts are not in dispute about what happened in Lucasville, Ohio, 30 years ago this month.
Inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility launched an uprising. It continued for 11 days. By the end, they had killed 10 men in shockingly gruesome style. The death of correctional officer Robert Vallandingham made a bad situation infinitely worse.
But three decades on, still under dispute is this: Did the state of Ohio convict the right men for Vallandingham’s death?
The five inmates sentenced to death for their roles in the 1993 Lucasville riot continue to push their claims of innocence through the courts and continue to maintain that some of the real culprits in Vallandingham’s murder were not held to account.
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