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This week on "The State of Ohio": The budget is on its way to a committee that will hammer out the differences before the end of the month deadline. But there are serious issues on both sides that could slow down the talks. A billion dollars is headed back to Ohio employers who paid into the states Bureau of Workers' Comp program. But a critic says the BWC has an outstanding bill that remains unpaid. And more on how Ohio's poorest people are surviving the rising costs of a basic existence.
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| Corrections officers union feeling "optimistic" after meeting with prison officials. |
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By Jo Ingles - April 8, 2009 |
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A spokesman for the union that represents prison guards working at state lockups says he's optimistic that conditions will improve at the Mansfield Correctional Institution. Andy Douglas says union leaders have met with the leaders of Ohio's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and are optimistic that conversation will bring about safer working conditions for guards at the prisons. |
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Andy Douglas (:20) 
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| Douglas says prison officials said they understood the union's concerns. The union has been warning of conditions that members think could lead to another situation like the Lucasville prison riot of 1993. |
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