The Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) is a women's state prison for women owned and operated by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in Marysville, Ohio. It was opened in September 1916, when 34 female prisoners were transferred from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. ORW is a multi-security state facility. In October 2006, 2,011 female prisoners lived in prisons ranging from 884 minimum security prisoners to two inmates in jail. It is the fifth prison in the United States, in modern times, to open a nursery to imprisoned mothers and their infants residing within the institution. The Achieving Baby Care Success (ABC) program is the first in the state to keep babies with their mothers.
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It took about four years to build a prison, located on 260 hectares (1.1 km 2 ) of land donated outside the town of Marysville. Initially, the prison consisted of one stone building, known as the Harmon Building. The prison is also a functioning field, complete with dairy cows, pigs, and grains, carried by the prisoners. Although ORW no longer operates as a farm, it is still commonly referred to as "farms." A former probationary and teenage lawyer, Louise M. Mittendorf, was the first supervisor of the prison. He was appointed in March 1916 to an indefinite period. He resigned in 1935 and died four years later.
Initially, the inmates were placed in the Harmon building, but eventually an additional cottage was built. (Now there are about 11 cottages.) Plumbing was then added in the 1950s. Prior to this, the inmates did not have the privilege of indoor pipe and had to use a "stop slop". In 1961, Clearview School opened in prison and Ohio Reformatory for Women became the first in the state to have an official Adult Education Program. Along with this, they also offer reintegration programs, college classes, and other trades.
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Unrest occurred in ORW from time to time. Around the 1950s, the first male guard was hired. The job of a guard consists mainly of watching the prisoners and stopping the fight. In 1968, one of the main huts was almost destroyed by a fire during an inmate's disturbance. Only a few years later, a group of inmates gathered and went berserk in one of the other cottages. These offenders are then sent to the Ohio Penitentiary for maximum security supervision. A decade later, the last run of the institution took place and more wires were added to the fence outside of the prison to prevent more women from escaping. The addition of the wire occurred in the same year when the first male warden, H.L. Morris, designated.
Jail nursery
In 2000, Governor Bob Taft signed a House bill allowing Ohio Reformatory for Women to establish a residential nursery. The following summer, under the direction of Warden Deb Timmerman-Cooper, ORW opened the only breeding program in the state. At that time, New York, Nebraska, and Washington were the only other states in the United States that had treatment rooms for imprisoned mothers.
The Baby Care Success Program (ABC) program at ORW allows pregnant offenders to safeguard the custody of their babies after they have given birth. Each case is handled individually and each mother is given an appropriate plan. The plan is for babies and mothers to leave jail together. Starting in 2017, there are eight babies in the program according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction website.
ORW employees have observed that mothers who have participated and graduated from ABC programs are rarely repeat offenders. There are certain qualifications and standards that must be met by the mother before she is allowed to be part of the nursery program. Mothers inmates have to deliver babies while in custody of the state of Ohio. Having a violent record will disqualify him from the program. Mothers should take family training courses with direct parenting instruction, maintain good mental and physical health, serve short-term, and follow many other specific rules.
The ORW seeding program is placed on a separate wing of the company and contains double occupancy rooms for up to twenty mothers with their babies. This wing also includes a recreation area, laundry room, and own childcare center.
In media
Komedian/aktris Mo'Nique memfilmkan Showtime Stand-up Comedy Special, I Coulda Been Your Cellmate (2006), dan film dokumenter TV, Mo'Nique Behind Bars (2007) , di ORW.
In 2010, The National Geographic Channel released the documentary "Hard Time: Female Offenders". Report on how Ohio Update for Women is tested by every type of female offender: from killer to parenting mother - and everything in between.
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