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| Fight over sale of state prison heads to Ohio Supreme Court |
| By sunherald.com- Julie Carr Smyth |
| Published: 05/20/2015 |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The status of the nation's first privately-owned state prison is up for debate in Ohio as litigation brought on behalf of union workers displaced by the historic sale is argued before the state's high court. The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, a group of individuals and the liberal think tank ProgressOhio sued in 2011 after Republican Gov. John Kasich and the GOP-controlled state Legislature passed a biennial budget bill authorizing the sale of Lake Erie Correctional Facility in Conneaut, along the shores of Lake Erie, and placing a second state prison under private management. The union argues that placing the privatization plan in the budget violated the Ohio Constitution's single-subject rule for legislation. State attorneys contend the plan rightly belonged in a budget bill because it raised revenue for Ohio's coffers and cut operational costs from the state prisons budget. A trial court dismissed the case, but the Tenth District Court of Appeals allowed a single argument brought by the civil service union, prison workers and the liberal advocacy group to move forward: that the 3,000-page budget bill contained more than one subject. Read More. |
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