Inside The Ohio Penetentiary

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 Meyers
Publisher : Landmarks
ISBN 13 : 9781626190979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Ohio Penitentiary written by David Meyers and published by Landmarks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Uncover the full extent of mayhem and madness locked away in one of history's most notorious maximum-security prisons.

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 : 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 : Molly C. Cain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988839939
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keys to the Cages written by Molly C. Cain and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recounts the frightful story of a fire at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus on Easter Monday 1930."--P.[4] of cover.

Author : Staughton Lynd
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604865350
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucasville written by Staughton Lynd and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or “snitches,” and one hostage correctional officer, were murdered. There was a negotiated surrender. Thereafter, almost wholly on the basis of testimony by prisoner informants who received deals in exchange, five spokespersons or leaders were tried and sentenced to death, and more than a dozen others received long sentences. Lucasville examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the eleven days, and the fairness of the trials. Particular emphasis is placed on the interracial character of the action, as evidenced in the slogans that were found painted on walls after the surrender: “Black and White Together,” “Convict Unity,” and “Convict Race.” An eloquent Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal underlines these themes. He states, as does the book, that the men later sentenced to death “sought to minimize violence, and indeed, according to substantial evidence, saved the lives of several men, prisoner and guard alike.” Of the five men, three black and two white, who were sentenced to death, Mumia declares, “They rose above their status as prisoners, and became, for a few days in April 1993, what rebels in Attica had demanded a generation before them: men. As such, they did not betray each other; they did not dishonor each other; they reached beyond their prison ‘tribes’ to reach commonality.”

Author : Donald Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533116420
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Night of Horror written by Donald Rose and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive report of the deadliest prison fire in the history of the United States, in which 320 convicts died.

Author : Nancy K. Darbey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439655804
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ohio State Reformatory written by Nancy K. Darbey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the state of Ohio, before 1884, most first-time offenders between the ages of 16 and 30 were housed in the Ohio Penitentiary, where they were likely to be influenced by hardened criminals. That changed when the Ohio Legislature approved the building of a reformatory, a new type of institution that would educate and train young, first-time offenders. Construction was halted three times due to lack of funding, but on September 17, 1896, the first 150 inmates were transferred to the new facility. Over the years, the reformatory expanded its training programs and became a self-sustaining institution—the largest of its kind in the United States. By 1970, the reformatory had become a maximum-security prison with a death row but no death chamber. It closed on December 31, 1990, but preservation and restoration efforts are ongoing. The reformatory has appeared in numerous television shows and feature films, including The Shawshank Redemption.

Author : Ohio. General Assembly. Joint Legislative Committee on Prisons and Reformatories
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penal Problem in Ohio written by Ohio. General Assembly. Joint Legislative Committee on Prisons and Reformatories and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 70 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: