Ohio Prison Report: Facility laden with dangerous carcinogen asbestos

A February 2008 state report suggests a prison in Chillicothe contained dangerous asbestos despite an official's claims otherwise, according to the website CentralOhio.com.

Additionally, according to The Columbus Dispatch, prison officials were worried that the tiled floors and pipe insulation at the correctional institution contained cancer-causing asbestos.

The paper reported that small areas of the infirmary contained crumbling asbestos. A pharmacist was said to also be worried the tile floor was flaking with powdered asbestos.

A federal lawsuit accuses the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction of lying about efforts to remove that asbestos and says officials showed a deliberate indifference to a known health risk at the prison.

Sadly, Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. is all too familiar with such stories of negligence involving asbestos.

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