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This week on "The State of Ohio": The Senate version of the budget is on its way, with just a few weeks remaining to hammer out differences with the House. Lawmakers try to clarify the state auditor's role with JobsOhio. And we revisit and update two controversial issues from the last year - the abortion debate in Ohio and the state's new exotic animals law and the facility it created.
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| Drug Abuse by Inmates Falls to Ten-Year Low. |
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By Bill Cohen - November 21, 2001 |
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Drug abuse among Ohio prison inmates has dropped to a ten year low.At least, that's what corrections officials are saying after doing their annual testing on a representative group of about one-fifth of the prisoners.The tests show that less than one per cent of the inmates have been on illegal drugs. A spokeswoman for the Ohio Corrections Department, Andrea Dean, says that's good news. She talked with Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen: |
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Bill Cohen reports (2:57) 
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| That's Andrea Dean of the State Corrections Department. She says the percentage of inmates who've been caught this year with illegal drugs in their bodies is about half what it was last year. |
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