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Northwest Ohio Corrections Center Fighting Overcrowding

By Maureen Mespell
August 14, 2012 Updated Aug 14, 2012 at 5:47 PM EDT

(Indiana's NewsCenter) -- The Correction Center of Northwest Ohio is bursting at the seams and is asking judges in Williams, Defiance, Henry and Fulton counties to help reduce it's prison population.

None of those four counties have jails of their own and have turned to the correction center to house inmates.

As of Tuesday morning, the center's population has peaked to 594 or 93%.

This is the 39th time so far this year that the population at the the jail has peaked above 90%.



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