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Died in prison

Name not reported

died 1952 · Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio

A person who has not been named died during the 1952 riot at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. Columbus Monthly, writing in 2019, describes the riot as raging out of control for six days. The same article places the death within the prison's wider history of violence and overcrowding.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

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