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Figures released Monday show 1,950 positive tests at Marion Correctional Facility in north-central Ohio, out of about 2,500 total inmates, according to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

In addition, 154 employees at Marion have tested positive, out of a total of about 350 workers, which includes about 295 guards. One Marion prison guard died earlier this month.

Cases also spiked at a second prison, Pickaway Correctional Facility, where 1,163 have tested positive out of a population of about 2,000, according to Monday’s data.

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