Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) is an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction mixed-security state prison for men, located at 1150 North Main Street in Mansfield, Ohio, adjacent to the property of the historic

Ohio State Reformatory 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 Feder ...

. Ohio's Richland Correctional Institution is also located in Mansfield. The facility opened in 1990 and has a capacity of 2,523 inmates. In 2005 the state's

death row Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting Capital punishment, execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of ...

inmates were transferred from Mansfield to the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, Ohio. Those inmates have since been moved to Chillicothe Correctional Institution. In July 2013 prisoner James David Myers engineered an escape, using three ladders to scale security fences. He was caught the next day. Four correctional employees were fired in relation to the escape, for infractions ranging from falsifying inventory documents to failing to respond to fence alarms.

Notable inmates

Robert Rembert: Serial killer

References

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