In the Louisiana penal system, a ‘life sentence’ means just that. But behind bars and razor wire at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a maximum-security facility once called the “bloodiest prison in America,” inmates face death with dignity through … Read More
Evocative Sound and Visuals presents Abandoned Prison, featuring sounds captured at the historic Ohio State Reformatory (OSR) in Mansfield, Ohio. Included are nasty squeaks, loud bangs and deep thuds from the cavernous prison’s cell block doors and massive chapel door.… Read More
Below are images of the Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), built in the Romanesque style of architecture in stages between 1886 and 1910 in Mansfield, Ohio. The prison closed in 1990, the result of a federal court order. Its inmates filed … Read More
In September 2002, I spent a day, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., documenting 51 inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary as they picked row after row of cotton in the fields surrounding the maximum-security prison known as ‘The Farm’ … Read More