West Cell Block Restoration Program
Why Are You Restoring the West Cell Block and How Can We Help? Ashleigh Ramey, OSR Program Director It was 9pm on November 19th, 2023, and I was relaxing at home […]
Do you want your coffee black?
Do you want your coffee black? R. McKinnell Sept 8, 2025 Among the oral histories conducted, not all the interesting stories came from inmates. Richard Pass came to the […]
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 […]