Staughton
Lynd is an historian and was a Legal Services lawyer specializing in
employment law. He was lead counsel in a law suit seeking to prevent
the closing of the U.S. Steel mills in the Mahoning Valley. Since
retirement in 1996, he and his wife Alice have taken a particular
interest in the 11-day rebellion by prisoners at the Southern Ohio
Correctional Facility in April 1993. Staughton is the author of Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising (Temple University Press, 2004).
As volunteer attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union,
Alice and Staughton helped to litigate a class action to improve
conditions of confinement at the Ohio State Penitentiary, Ohio's first
supermaximum security prison, on Youngstown's East Side.
The Lynds are Quakers. Together, they have published several books. Their most recent book, available in paperback, is Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together (Lexington Books, 2009), a joint autobiography with a foreword by Tom Hayden.
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