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7 paź 2024 · We hold the following Ohio State Penitentiary admission records and photographs of inmates: Prisoners Register 1829-1973 [State Archives Series 1536] The records are arranged chronologically by prisoner number.
Prison photography documents an intimate and emotional (unpaid) labor that is tethered to reproductive labor among populations most affected by mass incarceration at a cost to those photographed.
7 paź 2024 · Prison admission records generally include the inmate's name, serial number, offense/crime, sentence, date of admission, date of discharge, and limited biographical information.
We have cards from inmates admitted to prison between 1888-1923. Cards are from the Ohio Penitentiary & Ohio Reformatory. Please note: we do not have cards for all inmates admitted to the Ohio Pentitentiary & Ohio Reformatory.
12 paź 2018 · By the 1980s, overcrowding and inhumane conditions forced the closure of the Ohio State Reformatory, and its last prisoners were soon moved to the newly-built Mansfield Correctional Institution, which stands just west of the old prison.
5 sie 2013 · The Mansfield Reformatory officially closed its doors in 1990 after housing over 155,000 men in its century and a half lifetime as an Ohio State prison.
26 gru 2009 · In 2005, Powerhouse Books published Thomas Roma‘s book In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison. Arguably, the introduction by John Szarkowski is more interesting – or at least more complex – than Roma’s images. Szarkowski tackles head on the common question that looms over photographic studies of prisons:
