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The Ohio Penitentiary, also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary, was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in what is now known as the Arena District. The state had built a small prison in Columbus in 1813, but as the state's population grew the earlier facility was not able to handle the number of prisoners sent to ...
The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States.It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until 1990, when a United States Federal Court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed.
The Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) is a 502-inmate capacity supermax Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction prison in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. Throughout the last two centuries, there have been two institutions with the name Ohio Penitentiary or Ohio State Penitentiary; the first prison was in Columbus, Ohio .
Ohio was the second state to adopt the electric chair as a means of execution, executing 315 people between 1897 and its last use was in 1963. The state stopped using the electric chair in 2001, and now exclusively utilizes lethal injection in executions. Ohio's Old Sparky is now a museum exhibit in the Ohio State Reformatory.
Pages in category "Prisons in Ohio" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Ohio State Penitentiary; P. Pickaway Correctional Institution; R.
A state prison in northeast Ohio says that for the first time in the state's history, a five-course meal has been served to members of the public with food prepared by incarcerated men from fruits ...
A man held in an Ohio prison cell with no water, toilet or mattress for nearly two months filed a federal lawsuit against the state.
Prison World War II POW camp Ohio State Reformatory: Mansfield: Ohio: United States Prison Old Courthouse & Old Jailhouse Museums: West Bend, Wisconsin: Wisconsin: United States Jail Operated by Washington County Historical Society, Inc. Old Franklin County Jail in the former Franklin County Jail: Chambersburg: Pennsylvania: United States Jail