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The Ohio Penitentiary, also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary, was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in what is now known as the Arena District. 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 ...
February 14 – Comayagua prison fire. A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, killed over 361 inmates. [242] February 19 – A massive fire swept through a market in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, destroying between 500 and 1800 stalls, injured 11. [243] June 26 – A fire in a market in Moscow, Russia, killed 17 migrant workers. [244]
This category includes articles on fires in the United States State of Ohio. Subcategories. ... 1930 Ohio Penitentiary Fire This page was last ...
The Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) is a 502-inmate capacity supermax Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction prison in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. Throughout the last two centuries, there have been two institutions with the name Ohio Penitentiary or Ohio State Penitentiary; the first prison was in Columbus, Ohio .
Ohio Penitentiary fire; T. Tangerang prison fire; V. 2018 Valencia, Venezuela fire This page was last edited on 4 January 2025, at 00:02 (UTC). Text is available ...
The Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville houses Kentucky's Old Sparky Kentucky 's electric chair , known as "Old Sparky", is located at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky . It was first used on July 8, 1911; the first inmate to die in the chair was James Buckner, convicted of killing a police officer several weeks ...
The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States.It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until 1990, when a United States Federal Court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed.
Ohio's prison system is the sixth-largest in America, with 27 state prisons and three facilities for juveniles. In December 2018, the number of inmates in Ohio totaled 49,255, with the prison system spending nearly $1.8 billion that year. [2] ODRC headquarters are located in Columbus. [3]