Last Christmas, Officer Andrew Lansing was brutally murdered by an inmate at the Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, Ohio. It was a tragedy that shook the state and renewed urgent conversations about corrections officer safety. In response, the Ohio House of Representatives passed House Bill 338 (“Andy’s Law”), which strengthens punishments for people convicted of assaulting prison staff. But buried deep inside that bill is a provision that threatens long-term public safety and puts corrections officers in greater danger: It would force the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to end higher-education programs in high-security prisons and it bans personally used tablets, wiping out digital education and rehabilitative programming where it is often most needed.

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