CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION INSPECTION COMMITTEE REPORT: REVIEW OF ASSAULT DATA FROM THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION AND CORRECTION REGARDING OHIO PRISONS Presented and Submitted by CIIC Staff February 23, 2006 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION………..……………………………………………………………………….3 SUMMARY…………………………………………………………………………………….…4 I. INMATE ON STAFF ASSAULTS…………………………………………………8 A. Total Assaults 1. January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 2. November 2004 through October 2005………………………………10 B. Physical Assaults ………………………………………………………………12 1. January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 2. Southern Ohio Correctional Facility 1997 to December 28, 2005…………………………………………………...14 C. Harassment Assaults…………………………………………………………...15 1. January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 2. Southern Ohio Correctional Facility 1997 to December 28, 2005…………………..……………………………….17 D. Inappropriate Physical Contact Assaults…….………………………………18 1. January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 2. Southern Ohio Correctional Facility 1997 through December 28, 2005……………………..…………………………….19 E. Sexual Assault…………………………………….……………………………20 1. January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 2. Southern Ohio Correctional Facility 1997 through December 28, 2005……………………….…………………………..22 II. INMATE ON INMATE ASSAULTS……………………………………………..23 A. Total Assaults 1. November 2004 through October 2005 2. January – June 2005………………………………………………….25 B. Physical Assaults……………………………………………………………….27 1. January through June 2005 2. Southern Ohio Correctional Facility 2001 through October 12, 2005…………………………………………………….29 C. Harassment Assaults…………………………………………………………...32 1. January through June 2005 2. Southern Ohio Correctional Facility 2001 through October 12, 2005…………………………………………………….33 D. Sexual Assaults…………………………………………………………………34 1. January through June 2005 2. Southern Ohio Correctional Facility 2001 through October 12, 2005…………………………………………………….35 3 CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION INSPECTION COMMITTEE REPORT: REVIEW OF ASSAULT DATA FROM THE OHIO DEPARMENT OF REHABILITATION AND CORRECTION REGARDING OHIO PRISONS INTRODUCTION: Although assault data is included in the CIIC Biennial Report of January 2005, the data is not among the statistics regularly provided on a monthly basis. Rather, the CIIC has periodically requested and received such data compiled by the ODRC Bureau of Research. During the CIIC meeting on January 25, 2006, three Correctional Officers addressed the Committee, including two from the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF). Their expressed concerns included an extremely serious inmate assault on an Officer at SOCF on December 5, 2005, related concerns about the incidence of inmate on staff and inmate on inmate violence at SOCF, including the murder of the reported leader of the Aryan Brotherhood by a Muslim inmate on September 26, 2005, and concerns about further related violence. In partial follow-up to the areas of concern, CIIC staff requested updated data on assaults in Ohio prisons from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s Bureau of Research. On January 31, 2006, the following assault data was provided: · Inmate on Inmate Assault Report (January-June 2005) with Number of Assaults by Type at Each Institution · Inmate on Staff Assault Report (Jan. 1-Dec. 15, 2005) with Number of Assaults by Type at Each Institution · Reported Institutional Inmate-on-Inmate Assaults from November 2004 through October 2005 · Reported Institutional Inmate-on-Staff Assaults from November 2004 through October 2005 · SOCF Inmate-on-Inmate Assaults by Type of Assault in Calendar Years 2001- 2005 through October 12, 2005 · SOCF Inmate-on-Staff Assaults by Type of Assault in Calendar Years 1997- 2005 through December 28, 2005 The data is reported to be the most updated versions completed by the ODRC Bureau of Research. The Bureau of Research will provide the CIIC with updated assault data as they are created or updated in the future. Following the Summary, detailed tables and findings are provided on Inmate on Staff Assaults and Inmate on Inmate Assaults. 4 SUMMARY TOTAL INMATE ON STAFF ASSAULTS January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 o Of the 536 Inmate on Staff Assaults system-wide in the period, the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility had the largest number with 169, comprising 31.5 percent of all such assaults. o The Ohio Reformatory for Women had the second largest number of such assaults, with 37, comprising 6.9 percent of all such assaults. o Mansfield and Chillicothe Correctional Institutions, and the Ohio State Penitentiary had from 32 to 34 such assaults in the period. November 2004 through October 2005 o Of the 545 Inmate on Staff Assaults system-wide in the period, the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility had the largest number with 166, an average of 14 per month. o The Ohio Reformatory for Women had the second largest number of such assaults, with 44, comprising 3.7 percent of all such assaults. o The Ohio State Penitentiary and Mansfield Correctional Institution had the second and third largest number of such assaults, with 37 and 34 respectively. SOCF 1997 To December 28, 2005 o In the nine-year period, there were 1,240 total Inmate Assaults on SOCF Staff, from a low of 105 in 2001 to a high of 193 in 1997. o The 187 such assaults in 2005, rank second highest in the nine-year period. INMATE ON STAFF PHYSICAL ASSAULTS January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 o Of the 294 Inmate on Staff Physical Assaults system-wide in the period, nearly 60 percent were Minor Injury Assaults and over 29 percent resulted in No Injury. o There were 32 Serious Injury Physical Assaults (Assaults requiring emergency medical treatment off prison grounds), comprising 10.9 percent of the Inmate on Staff Physical Assaults. o The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility had the largest number of Inmate on Staff Physical Assaults in the period, with 69, of which 43 were Minor Injury Assaults and 17 resulted in “No Injury.” Nine of the Inmate on Staff Physical Assaults at SOCF were “Serious.” o The Ohio Reformatory for Women had the second highest number of assaults with 24, followed closely by the Mansfield Correctional Institution and Ohio State Penitentiary with 22 and 21 respectively. SOCF Physical Assaults 1997 to December 28, 2005 o Inmate Physical Assaults on SOCF Staff totaled 498 in the nine-year period, and comprised 40.2 percent of all Inmate Assaults on SOCF Staff. o Physical Assaults on SOCF Staff ranged from a low of 37 in 2000 to a high of 75 in 2005. 5 o Minor Injury Physical Assaults totaled 282, the largest subgroup of Physical Assaults on SOCF Staff, from a low of 18 in 2000 to a high of 46 in 2005. o No Injury Physical Assaults on SOCF Staff totaled 153 in the nine-year period, the second largest subgroup of Physical Assaults, from a low of 12 in 2001 to a high of 25 in 2002. o Serious Injury Physical Assaults on SOCF Staff totaled 62 in the nine years, the smallest sub-group of Physical Assaults on staff, from a low of two in 1998 to a high of 10 in 2003 and in 2005. INMATE ON STAFF HARASSMENT ASSAULT Harassment assault is defined as “throwing, expelling or otherwise causing bodily substance to come into contact with another, or throwing any other liquid or material on or at another that does not result in any physical injury to victim.” January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 o There were 202 Inmate on Staff Harassment Assaults system-wide in the period. o The Southern Ohio Correctional Facility had the largest number of such assaults, with 95. o The Chillicothe Correctional Institution had the second largest number with 18, followed by the Ohio Reformatory for Women with 12. SOCF 1997 to December 28, 2005 o In the nine-year period, there were 707 Inmate on Staff Harassment Assaults at SOCF, from the low of 53 assaults in 2001 to a high of 122 incidents in 1997. o There were 106 such assaults in 2005, the second highest in the nine-year period. o The 707 Staff Harassment Assaults comprise 57 percent of total assaults on SOCF. INMATE ON STAFF INAPPROPRIATE PHYSICAL CONTACT ASSAULT Inappropriate Physical Contact Assault is defined as “physical resistance to a direct order, or the intentional grabbing, touching of a non-sexual nature, bumping into or pushing a staff member that does not result in any physical injury to the staff member.” January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 o There were 30 incidents of Inappropriate Physical Contact Assault in the period, with the largest number at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution with nine, followed by SOCF with four incidents. SOCF 1997 to December 28, 2005 o In the nine-year period SOCF had 27 such incidents, from a low of one incident in 2004 to a high of six incidents in 1998. o There were five incidents in 2005, ranking second highest in the period. INMATE ON STAFF SEXUAL ASSAULT Sexual Contact Assault is “any intentional touching of an erogenous zone of a staff member by an inmate.” January 1, 2005 to December 15, 2005 o There was no attempted or completed Inmate on Staff Sexual Assault in the period. o There were ten Sexual Contact Assaults, one each at ten prisons. SOCF 1997 to December 28, 2005 o In the nine-year period, there was one attempted sexual assault in 2001 at SOCF. o During the period, there were seven Sexual Contact Assaults, with one each from 1997 through 2000, two in 2002, and one in 2005. 6 TOTAL INMATE ON INMATE ASSAULTS November 2004 through October 2005 o During the period, there were 483 Inmate on Inmate Assaults system-wide, with the largest number at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, which had 109 assaults, an average of 9.08 per month. o North Central Correctional Institution had the second highest number of such assaults, with 32 in the period. January – June 2005 o During the period, there were 249 Inmate on Inmate Assaults system-wide. o The largest number of such assaults was at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, with 55 in the six- month period.