Friday, March 12, 1999
Judges to look at felons' role at CCC
Convicts as staff may be security breach
BY SHEILA McLAUGHLIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON — The judges who oversee Community Correctional Center (CCC) may adopt a “no-felon” rule for employees after learning the agency that runs the center for substance abusers hired a known felon.
“It is important to realize the CCC is not a halfway house. It is a correctional facility,” Judge Michael Sage of Butler County said Thursday. He is chairman of the center's judicial oversight panel and plans to meet with his fellow judges on the matter, possibly as soon as next week.
“It seems to me that using former drug addicts as drug counselors might be extremely appropriate if you're satisfied ... that they would be good counselors,” he said. “The other side of the coin is we obviously have a concern about what that does to the security of our facility.”
A spokesperson at Talbert House, the Cincinnati agency that runs CCC, told The Cincinnati Enquirer earlier this week the agency knew Timothy Million Jr. of Middletown had a prison record when he was hired in 1998.
Questions about Mr. Million's criminal history surfaced this week when a Warren County grand jury indicted the former corrections officer for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl under his supervision at the county juvenile detention center.
Mr. Million, 30, served time in prison twice from 1991 to 1993 on aggravated burglary, forgery and attempted drug trafficking convictions. He worked briefly at CCC as a corrections officer before joining the Warren County Juvenile Detention Center in June.
Talbert House has a contract with common pleas judges from Butler, Warren and Clermont counties to operate CCC, including hiring and screeningemployees.
The center, on Ohio 63 near Lebanon, houses adult offenders from Butler, Warren and Clermont counties with substance abuse problems.
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