Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

State To Pay Family Of Inmate Who Hanged Himself In His Cell

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

Ohio's prisons department will pay nearly 13 thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an inmate who killed himself in his cell at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution three days before his scheduled execution. The family of 44-year-old Billy Slagle filed a negligence suit in July 2014.

Related Content