Ohio Privatizes Some State Prisons

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MARION, Ohio - David Kah will report to the same job in the same training kitchen at Ohio's 17-year-old state prison in Marion in January - but much about his life will be changed.

Kah is leaving the public payroll and taking a job with Management & Training Corp., the Centerville, Utah-based prison vendor that takes over operation of North Central Correctional Institution on Saturday. The longtime culinary arts instructor, who is 67, said that he will see significant reductions in pay and vacation days, but he was looking forward to the new operator's plans for his program.

Ohio turned over the keys to MTC at 10 p.m. Dec. 31, the start of the last shift before the management transfer. The prison is among five state facilities seeing management or operations changes that night in a consolidation and privatization effort by Republican Gov. John Kasich.