THE CAPTIVE’S HOUR
A note from Joe Bouchard:
What do Jails and Prisons have in common? The answers are as varied as the number of professionals who offer their wisdom. One thing that we can agree on is this: The experience of staff taken captive is one all should hear and consider. Our colleague from Kenton County Kentucky, Scott Colvin shares this thought provoking article with us.
“THE CAPTIVE’S HOUR”
FORMER LUCASVILLE HOSTAGE LARRY DOTSON BRINGS HIS STORY HOME TO KENTUCKY (AS PROMISED)
BY Chief Deputy G.S. Colvin, CJM, Kenton County, Kentucky
HEADLINES April 12th 1993: “Convicts siege Ohio Prison” “guards taken hostage at Lucasville”. These are but (2) headlines of the nation’s heralding that a hostage situation and prison takeover had developed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville Ohio, there was death, and mayhem –disaster and sadly there were (11) individual officers taken hostage, marking their first day of captivity of the longest Correctional Hostage situation in American history. Read more…