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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -Marion J. Koloski, a powerfully built veteran penologist who believes most men can be rehabilitated, is the new warden of Ohio Penitentiary.Director Martin A. Janis of the Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction named Koloski Friday to replace ailing warden Ernest Maxwell, 59, who retires at the end of July.Although Koloski’s appointment does not become official until Maxwells retirement, he will take over the duties Monday while Maxwell remains hospitalized from “complete exhaustion.”Maxwell and one of his deputies, Ralph Ketchum, 61, were hospitalized following long hours of work during and after the June 24 rioting and fire at the penitentiary.They were in fair condition at Riverside Hospital Friday.Maxwell has long suffered from a chest and lung ailment and had planned to retire early in July.Koloski, 46, has been head of the Chillicothe Correctional In-V.Clayland Capsules♦V?• i •?!• * • • (I • (. • t.l» • » • • ■v.o *UHRICHSVILLE — The Mighty Mothers and Senior Golden Jets will play softball tonight at 6 at the Kenny Page farm on RD 1, across from theH H Drive - in.UHRICHSVILLE - Jan Pu-kansky, 30, of Canton posted a $25 bond last night after being charged by police with disorderly conduct. He was picked up at 11:00 in front of the post office.DENNISON -Guire, 20, of N. was treated thisJames1st St.Mc-ext.,morning at2:45 in Twin City Hospital for a contusion to his right eye and laceration to his nose. McGuire was reportedly involved in a fight in the Top Hat Nite Club.stitution the past two years. A trained psychologist, he began his career at the penitentiary as a psychologist in 1949, became a corrections captain, then deputy warden and in 1963 was named superintendent of the Mansfield Reformatory. A native of Pontiac, Mich., he was graduated from Ohio State University’s School of Social Administration with a major in corrections and earned his masters degree there.★Koloski, a ruddy complexion-ed, 6-foot, 5-inch, 265-pounder, says his psychology training will help him in his new job.He said while at the Mansfieldinstitutions heand Chillicothe observed that ‘“many inmates have as much goodness as they do bad qualities. They need hope.“My philosophy is to distinguish between inmates who want to help themselves and those who want to wallow in their own self pity,” he said.With his retirement, Maxwell completes a 29-year career in Ohio’s penal system. He began as a London prison farm guard in 1939 after six years as a Madison County deputy sheriff. He transferred to the penitentiary in 1940 as a guard, and became deputy under the late Ralph Avis. He became warden in 1961.Shortly after Koloski was named warden, Gov. James A. Rhodes announced Friday that the Junction City branch prison in Perry County, closed since 1965, will be reopened to accommodate 300 prisoners now in thepenitentiary.Janis has said he would like to reduce the penitentiary population to about 2,000. There were about 2,750 inmates in the prison at the same of the rioting, but this has been reduced to about 2,600 with transfers to other institutions.Reopening of the Junction Citybranch was described as a major step toward phasing out the penitentiary as the state starts preparing to begin construction of a new prison at Lucasville.t
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Dover Times Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Sat, Jul 06, 1968
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