Nation IN BRIEF : OHIO : Guards Linked to Racist Prison Gang

A white-supremacist network of up to 800 inmates also includes guards and controls prostitution, drugs and gambling at Ohio’s maximum-security prison, a legislative committee alleges. Gov. Richard F. Celeste ordered an immediate and comprehensive investigation of gang activity at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility at Lucasville after the House-Senate Correctional Institutional Inspection Committee linked the group to the stabbings of four black inmates. Three of the inmates died of their wounds. Officials said members of the network wear tattoos of lightning bolts on their necks, which they earn by violently attacking other inmates.