[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 19 (Thursday, February 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H529]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           LUCASVILLE PRISON

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, after a 1993 riot at Lucasville Prison, 
Ohio taxpayers spent $353 million to straighten it out. If that is not 
enough to bust your parakeet, check this out:
  To settle a lawsuit filed by the prisoners, the inmates in this 
prison, Ohio taxpayers must now pay another $4 million for punitive 
damages and property damages of these prisoners. Unbelievable, $4 
million to rapists, armed robbers, and murderers.
  This Lucasville ordeal is a classic example of how we treat crime in 
America. The law turns its back on the victims of rapists and 
murderers, then turns around and compensates rapists and murderers in 
prison who burned the place down and destroyed it. Beam me up. If there 
is any sense left, someone explain it to me in writing.
  I yield back the balance of any more punitive or property damages.

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