Inmate convicted of multiple felonies denied parole
WARREN — The Ohio Adult Parole Authority has denied the third parole request of a Trumbull County inmate convicted of several felonies, including involuntary manslaughter and corrupting with drugs.
Robert Allen Baksi, 66, is incarcerated at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Hubbard Road. The Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office said it was informed of the parole board’s decision on Friday.
Baksi will be eligible for parole again in September 2029.
He was sentenced in 1998 by former Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge W. Wyatt McKay to 18 years following a one-week trial that convicted Baksi on charges of involuntary manslaughter, trafficking in heroin and corrupting another with drugs.
The charges stemmed from the April 27, 1997, heroin overdose death of 38-year-old inmate Daniel Williams at the Trumbull Correctional Institution.
Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said Baksi has an extensive criminal history, noting that he has been imprisoned at least nine times between 1978 and 1998.
Watkins said Baksi has been responsible for two deaths, one of which occurred while he was already serving time as an inmate.
He described Baksi as “a menace inside and outside prison walls,” citing the inmate’s current high-risk score in prison records.
Watkins said keeping Baksi incarcerated is critical, adding that his absence from Ohio’s criminal system since 1998 is because of his continued imprisonment.
“Please keep him where he is removed from others in society until January 16, 2034, as the law provides and common sense requires,” Watkins wrote in a letter to the parole board.



