She’ll Add New OSR Dimension
She’ll Add New OSR Dimension By: Ed Kenyon Proponents of prison reform and women’s liberation have scored a major victory Mrs. Linda Bolin being added to the “behind-the-walls staff” at […]
First Woman Officer at Mansfield
FIRST WOMAN OFFICER AT MANSFIELD She Works Behind Prison Wall By: Charlotte Taylor MANSFIELD – The first woman officer in an all-male Ohio prison is a genteel, gray-haired mother of […]
March 2024 Restoration
March 2024 Restoration: The Bullpen When the Ohio State Reformatory opened its doors to the first 150 inmates in 1896, the area we know today as the bullpen was the […]
Females On Guard At OSR
This article was found on newspapers.com at comes from the May 7th, 1976 edition of the Mansfield News-Journal Females On Guard At OSR By: Joan Brown Mary Shoulders […]
Mary Loyd
Ohio State Reformatory Has First Woman Teacher By: Jim Brewer Mansfield News-Journal January 16th, 1972 After just two class sessions in her new position, Mary Loyd, the first woman instructor […]
News Article From 1993- “Roll ‘Em! Inmates fix OSR for Hollywood film”
Roll ‘em! Inmates fix OSR for Hollywood film By: Lou Whitmire MANSFIELD— Anthony Abott will be scraping paint for about 30 days inside the west cell block at the Ohio […]
February 2024 Restoration Progress
5 Rooms in the Wardens living quarters have been slated to be turned into escape rooms. Historically, these rooms were used as part of the Dignitaries Quarters for administration at […]
News Article From 1969- “OSR Chief ‘Keeps His Cool’ In Toughest Test”
This article was found on Newspapers.com and comes from the April 30th, 1969 edition of the Mansfield News-Journal. Content Warning: This material contains images of firearms, which some readers may […]
Bennett J. Cooper
Bennett Cooper was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1921. A few years later the Cooper family moved to Oklahoma, and then to New Orleans where Cooper studied at Xavier University. […]
Gates Brown- An Inmate Success Story
Gates Brown was born in Crestline, Ohio in 1939. A star athlete for Crestline High School, Gates unfortunately found himself with “the wrong crowd”, and he spent some of […]
Restoration Updates – January 2024
Restoring Original Woodwork in the Administrative Areas Our restoration team at the Ohio State Reformatory is always hard at work restoring areas of the quarter-million-square-foot structure. Restoring the original […]
News article from 1930 -GANGSTERS SAID TO BE PLANNING TO AID CONVICTS
From the Dayton Daily News Sunday, June 8th, 1930 Article found on ArticleNewspapers.com Content Warning: This material contains references to violence, which some readers may find distressing. Reader discretion is […]