COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has lost more inmates to COVID-19 than any other state, but its prisons nonetheless must begin reopening to accommodate a slow return to business — and to crime, the prisons director said. The department has begun accepting new inmates from jails again and must soon resume the normal process of transferring inmates when necessary, Annette Chambers-Smith, head of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said in an interview this week. “We need to get to what is the new normal going to look like, what is this agency going to look like, and live with COVID,” Chambers-Smith said. “The whole of the community is reopening, so when you reopen the community,...
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