Important Takeaways:

• Prison director said officer Andrew Lansing “made the ultimate sacrifice.”
• Officer Andrew Lansing was attacked Wednesday at the Ross Correctional Institution (RCI) in Chillicothe
• The inmate suspected of killing Lansing was not immediately identified by prison officials, who said he had been transferred to the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Lucasville, Ohio.
• “The loss of a staff person is difficult, but to lose a family member on Christmas Day at the hands of someone in our custody is a tragedy beyond comprehension,” Annette Chambers-Smith, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said in a statement. “Instead of going home after his shift to be with his family on this holiday, Officer Lansing made the ultimate sacrifice, and our agency will never be the same.”
• The prison, which houses more than 2,000 inmates, has been put on lockdown as the Ohio State Highway Patrol investigates the homicide.

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