As of September 2017, the facility has a new long-term contract with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which will increase to 996 in 2018.

[4] The facility has been owned and operated by CoreCivic and its predecessor, Corrections Corporation of America, since 1997.

The combination of an inexperienced, unprepared staff with "young, aggressive, and violent" residents meant immediate friction.

Through 1997 a pattern of disruptions, assaults, and challenges to authority did not deter the District from expanding the contract to 1700 prisoners by October.

Chisley's killer had "the assistance of the individual who was the principal assailant of Davis three weeks earlier.