Central Ohios Historic Prisons

Author : David Meyers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738560038
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Ohio's Historic Prisons written by David Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the opening of the Ohio State Reformatory in 1896, the state legislature had put in place "the most complete prison system, in theory, which exists in the United States." The reformatory joined the Ohio Penitentiary and the Boys Industrial School, also central-Ohio institutions, to form the first instance of "graded prisons; with the reform farm on one side of the new prison, for juvenile offenders, and the penitentiary on the other, for all the more hardened and incorrigible class." However, even as the concept was being replicated throughout the country, the staffs of the institutions were faced with the day-to-day struggle of actually making the system work.

Author : Clara Belle Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Penal Institutions in Ohio written by Clara Belle Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillip Raymond Shriver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ohio's Military Prisons in the Civil War written by Phillip Raymond Shriver and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel J. Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Lights and Shadows of the Ohio State Penitentiary written by Daniel J. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe James
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 145207898X
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ohio State Reformatory written by Joe James and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it is like to walk the halls of a dark and mysterious prison? Have you ever wanted to stand in places where inmates once walked in an attempt to try and get a sense of what it would be like to spend the majority of your life, or even a portion of your life behind bars? If so, you are holding one of the most amazing books that can take you into all of these situations. This book is about a prison that was built in the rolling hills of Mansfield, Ohio in the1800s on a pre-existing civil war training camp where approximately 150,000 inmates served time For The crimes they may or even may not have committed. it covers topics from before the prison was built, during the building process, and after its completion. This book will cover an inmates stay and what he could experience during his incarceration and how this prison operated as a "city within a city".

Author : Sherri Brake
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231893
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunted History of the Ohio State Reformatory written by Sherri Brake and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paranormal expert Sherri Blake takes readers on a terrifying tour of Ohio’s infamous prison, where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed. Built on the site of a Civil War camp ravaged by disease, the Ohio State Reformatory first opened in 1896 to reform young offenders but eventually grew to house the most dangerous criminals. By the time the Mansfield institution closed, the prison was hosting a thousand more prisoners than it was designed to hold in “brutalizing and inhumane conditions.” Within the dark corridors made famous as the backdrop for The Shawshank Redemption, ghostly presences linger, from the dungeons of solitary confinement to the West Wing showers, where a bent pipe marks the place where a prisoner hanged himself. Venture behind the walls of this notorious prison with ghost tour guide Sherri Brake to discover the history and spirits that forever haunt these halls . . . if you dare. Includes photos!

Author : Lawrence P. Jackson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634132
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chester B. Himes: A Biography written by Lawrence P. Jackson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work A Washington Post Notable Book The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally. Chester B. Himes has been called “one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.), “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle), and “a quirky American genius” (Walter Mosely). He was the twentieth century’s most prolific black writer, captured the spirit of his times expertly, and left a distinctive mark on American literature. Yet today he stands largely forgotten. In this definitive biography of Chester B. Himes (1909–1984), Lawrence P. Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes’s full archives to portray a controversial American writer whose novels unflinchingly confront sex, racism, and black identity. Himes brutally rendered racial politics in the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, but he became famous for his Harlem detective series, including Cotton Comes to Harlem. A serious literary tastemaker in his day, Himes had friendships—sometimes uneasy—with such luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Carl Van Vechten, and Richard Wright. Jackson’s scholarship and astute commentary illuminates Himes’s improbable life—his middle-class origins, his eight years in prison, his painful odyssey as a black World War II–era artist, and his escape to Europe for success. More than ten years in the writing, Jackson’s biography restores the legacy of a fascinating maverick caught between his aspirations for commercial success and his disturbing, vivid portraits of the United States.

Author : David Meyers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625845502
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Ohio Penetentiary written by David Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore one of history’s most notorious maximum-security prisons through these tales of mayhem and madness. As “animal factories” go, the Ohio Penitentiary was one of the worst. For 150 years, it housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the United States, including murderers, madmen and mobsters. Peer in on America’s first vampire, accused of sucking his victims’ blood five years before Bram Stoker’s fictional villain was even born; peek into the cage of the original Prison Demon; and witness the daring escape of John Hunt Morgan’s band of Confederate prisoners.

Author : David Myers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625854498
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wicked Columbus, Ohio written by David Myers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ohio's capital city once teemed with crime bosses, rampant corruption and unpunished perversion. The Bad Lands of Columbus was a nationally recognized slum controlled by "Smoky" Hobbs. Columbus native Dr. Samuel B. Hartman, the world's most successful snake oil salesman, was almost single-handedly responsible for the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Local gambler "Pat" Murnan had an unlikely love affair with Grace Backenstoe, the madam of the most popular brothel in town. The two were a symbol of the area's salaciousness. Authors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker explore the heyday of Columbus's most notorious fiends, corrupt politicians and con men.

Author : Ohio. General Assembly. Special Committee to Investigate Penitentiary Buildings, Management and Convict Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Special Committee of the Seventy-seventh General Assembly of Ohio Appointed to Investigate Penitentiary Buildings, Management and Convict Labor, to His Excellency, A.L. Harris, Governor written by Ohio. General Assembly. Special Committee to Investigate Penitentiary Buildings, Management and Convict Labor and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: