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SUMMARY:State of OH Penitentiary Fire\, Columbus\, OH (1930)
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DESCRIPTION:A fire at an Ohio prison kills 320 inmates\, some of whom burn
  to death when they are not unlocked from their cells. It is one of the wo
 rst prison disasters in American history.\nThe Ohio State Penitentiary was
  built in Columbus in 1834. Throughout its history\, it had a poor reputat
 ion. A cholera epidemic swept through the facility in 1849\, killing 121 c
 onvicts. In 1893\, a prison superintendent wrote that Ten thousand pages o
 f history of the Ohio Penitentiary would [not] give one idea of the inward
  wretchedness of its 1\,900 inmates. The unwritten history is known only b
 y God himself.\nThe prison\, built to hold 1\,500 people\, was almost alwa
 ys overcrowded and notorious for its poor conditions. At the time of the 1
 930 fire\, there were 4\,300 prisoners living in the jail. Construction cr
 ews were working on an expansion and scaffolding was set up along one side
  of the building. On the night of April 21\, a fire broke out on the scaff
 olding.\nThe cell block adjacent to the scaffolding housed 800 prisoners\,
  most of whom were already locked in for the night. The inmates begged to 
 be let out of their cells as smoke filled the cell block. However\, most r
 eports claim that the guards not only refused to unlock the cells\, they c
 ontinued to lock up other prisoners. Meanwhile\, the fire spread to the ro
 of\, endangering the inmates on the prison's upper level as well.\nFinally
 \, two prisoners forcibly took the keys from a guard and began their own r
 escue efforts. Approximately 50 inmates made it out of their cells before 
 the heavy smoke stopped the impromptu evacuation. The roof then caved in o
 n the upper cells. About 160 prisoners burned to death.\nAlthough some gua
 rds did work to save the lives of their charges\, the seemingly willful in
 difference displayed by other guards led to a general riot. Firefighters i
 nitially could not get access to the fire because angry prisoners were pel
 ting them with rocks. By the time the fire was controlled\, 320 people wer
 e dead and another 130 were seriously injured.\nThe tragedy was roundly co
 ndemned in the press as preventable. It also led to the repeal of laws on 
 minimum sentences that had in part caused the overcrowding of the prison. 
 The Ohio Parole Board was established in 1931 and within the next year mor
 e than 2\,300 prisoners from the Ohio Penitentiary had been released on pa
 role.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QXv5rt2qVE\n\n
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