COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A proposal to ban state agencies from buying United States and Ohio flags that weren't made in the U.S. could expand opportunities for incarcerated women who sew flags at a Marysville prison, a state corrections official told lawmakers.

Ann King, Ohio Penal Industries chief for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said the department's century-old flag shop at the Ohio Reformatory for Women could grow if House Bill 223 becomes law.

"The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's Ohio Penal Industries has operated a flag shop at the Ohio Reformatory for Women since 1926," King said in written testimony submitted Oct. 21 to the House Government Oversight Committee. "Currently, 36 incarcerated women sew U.S., Ohio, and Prisoner of War flags

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