By Alan Johnson
The Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS — A prisons corrections officer has been suspended while the state Highway Patrol investigates allegations that she locked a handcuffed prisoner in a cell with another inmate who raped and beat him.
Theresa L. Daniel, 60, was placed on administrative leave without pay on Jan. 19, according to JoEllen Smith, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Daniel was placed on leave for allegedly failing to follow prison policies and procedures, Smith said.
The state will not release the names of the two inmates involved. The incident happened Jan. 18 in the segregation unit of the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima. The facility houses both general population inmates as well as those suffering from mental illness.
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