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The Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) is a state prison for women owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in Marysville, Ohio. It opened in September 1916, when 34 female inmates were transferred from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. [1] ORW is a multi-security, state facility.
A lieutenant driving a small utility vehicle through the prison yard hit an inmate at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, body camera footage shows.. Two officers in the vehicle, which ...
The prison was constructed in 1972. As of 2023, the warden is Cindy Davis. The prison is perhaps best known for its April 1993 riot, in which a total of 450 prisoners participated, resulting in an eleven-day standoff between rioters and law enforcement. One corrections officer and nine inmates were killed during the riot. [2]
James Disser spent 31 years as a police officer, including 16 in Marysville. In "Echoes in Eternity" he shares some of the more extreme stories.
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 it by the courts. When the penitentiary first opened in 1834, not all of the buildings were completed. The prison housed 5,235 prisoners at its peak in 1955.
Robert Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y. is seen bloodied as correctional officers detain him in the prison infirmary on Dec. 9, 2024.
In 1896 a separate, one-hundred cellblock "Joliet Women's Prison" was built across the street from the male penitentiary. In design it was an exact mini-replica of the male prison. In 1933 all female prisoners were moved to the Oakdale Women's Reformatory (later known as Dwight Correctional Center) and the facility was used for male prisoners. [3]
Inmates could play baseball, visit zoos with horses, pigs and flamingos, and saunter round market streets