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Beverly Jo Taylor walked into Ohio’s only maximum-security prison carrying books, lessons, and the belief that education could create a better future. She was not a correctional officer. She was a teacher who spent six years educating incarcerated students at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. On June 7, 1990, that work cost Beverly her life. At approximately 9:30 a.m., after the morning break, an inmate assigned as her teacher’s aide… Read more