In re Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

ORDER

SPIEGEL, Senior District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the Defendants’ motion to vacate the summary jury trial (doc. 118), which the Plaintiffs opposed (doc. 123).

BACKGROUND

On April 11, 1993, several prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio (“SOCF”) began an eleven-day siege of Ohio’s maximum security prison. One prison guard and nine inmates were murdered during the riot. The riot itself was the longest and third-most-lethal disorder in recent history, behind Attica and Santa Fe.

Plaintiff Darrin E. Morris was an inmate at SOCF during the riot.…