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| Location | 2500 South Avon Belden Road Grafton, Ohio |
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| Status | open |
| Security class | minimum and medium |
| Capacity | 2074 |
| Opened | 1988 |
| Managed by | Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction |
The Grafton Correctional Institution is a state prison for men located in Grafton, Lorain County, Ohio, owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
The facility was opened in 1988 and houses a maximum of 2,074 inmates at a mix of minimum and medium security levels. [1]
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is the administrative department of the Ohio state government responsible for oversight of Ohio State Correctional Facilities, along with its Incarcerated Individuals. Ohio's prison system is the sixth-largest in America, with 27 state prisons and three facilities for juveniles. In December 2018, the number of inmates in Ohio totaled 49,255, with the prison system spending nearly $1.8 billion that year. ODRC headquarters are located in Columbus.
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On September 10, 1985, in Warren, Ohio, United States, 12-year-old Warren Boy Scout Raymond Fife disappeared after he was last seen going outdoors to meet his friend, and after it was discovered that he never made it to his friend's house, Fife's family went to search for him. The search lasted for more than four hours before Fife's father discovered his body at a wooded field behind a supermarket on Palmyra Road; Fife died from his injuries, presumably from a physical assault, two days after he was found. An autopsy report ruled that Fife's death was due to a homicide and it confirmed that the boy was raped before he died.
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