LUCASVILLE, Ohio, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Time is running out for Mansfield
Correctional Institution inmate William Zuern, who is scheduled to be executed
June 8 for the 1984 stabbing death of corrections officer Phillip Pence.
The Ohio Parole Board is recommending the governor give no clemency to the
convicted killer.
The execution will add one more chapter to the prison's violent past. On
Easter Sunday 1993, inmates took control of the facility and held it for 11
days, resulting in what was then the longest prison riot in American history.
Nine inmates and one guard were killed during the standoff. One of the
hostages from the infamous Lucasville riot now provides detailed insight into
the horrifying ordeal in "Siege in Lucasville" (now available through
AuthorHouse), by Gary Williams.
The violence that has resided behind concrete walls and barbed wire in the
past still haunts this location today. Williams writes that the riot was the
culmination of prisoner defiance that had been a part of the prison for
decades. His book chronicles the uprising and takeover through the experiences
of prison guard Larry Dotson and details the entire grueling period, including
the beatings at the hands of an "inmate death squad."
Williams conveys the fear that Dotson and other hostages tried to ignore
in order to survive as it examines the events leading up to the riots,
including what he and others cite as lack of effective leadership at the state
level of the corrections department. "Siege in Lucasville" is a case study in
interpersonal communication, leadership and crisis management. It exhibits how
neglect, insufficient funds and poor management can lead to catastrophe.
Highly acclaimed by those in criminal justice and academic law, "Siege in
Lucasville" takes a hard look at the Ohio Department of Corrections and the
factors that led to one of the worst prison riots in American history.
Zuern's execution is scheduled for 10 a.m.
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