Blog 5 - Mansfield Reformatory

We went to the Mansfield Reformatory, a historic prison in Mansfield, Ohio. When I took this class last year, we went to this reformatory I thought it was the coolest thing. This year was no different. We had a different tour guide, and the tour started in a different area. I learned some new things that weren't mentioned last year and noticed some things were not mentioned. Our tour guide did not mention the attempted escape in the chapel and did not turn the lights off in the "attic" where they had kept hundreds of men. We did learn more about the Wardens of the prison, which was very interesting. It was nice to see the "portal to hell" in the prison which is speculated to be the center of the building. We got to walk through the East and West cell blocks, and there is a stark difference between them. The East cell block was for the more unsavory convicts. This cell block held more of the prisons, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. In the west cell block, you had the trustees of the prison. These were convicts the guards could trust and didn't have to worry about. There were some ex-military and law enforcement in this cell block, and these prisoners were treated a lot better than those in the East cell block. I found out at the end of the tour the prison has a haunted house near the end of September. If I get the chance to come back up while in college, I am going to try and get through it.







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