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The Ohio State Reformatory
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What started as an institution to reform young and nonviolent criminals became one of the most infamous prisons in American history.
Before 1884, most firsttime offenders between the ages of 16 and 30 were housed in the Ohio Penitentiary, where they were likely to be influenced by hardened criminals. That changed when the Ohio Legislature approved the building of a reformatory, a new type of institution that would educate and train these young men. Since its opening in 1896, the reformator...