Dark Realms: Mansfield Reformatory

The Dark Paranormal

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Welcome, to Dark Realms: Mansfield Reformatory

For todays Dark Realm, we took a listener’s suggestion to look into the Mansfield Reformatory in Ohio, and we are so glad we did. There are stark obvious correlations between this institution and the previously covered Denbigh Asylum, pointedly their initial intent to not only do good, but do better than has been done in that field. Yet, to me at least, it seems eerily semi-correlative in the wests attitude towards reform and punishment, and the years following World War 2.

Stay safe,

Kevin.

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0:47.9	Hello everyone and welcome back to what is quickly becoming my favorite show to do, Dark Realms.
0:57.3	Indeed, today's Dark Realm will be a place that more than likely you have seen.
1:04.5	You may well already have seen the harsh conditions and even shed an emotional tear or two,
1:13.1	because today's Dark realm was featured largely as a backdrop in the film, The Shoreshank Redemption. Because it's with a
1:20.3	huge thank you to our listener Julie, who pointed us in this direction, that today we will
1:26.9	look at the Mansfield Reformatory in Ohio.
1:31.0	And whilst researching this episode, one strange, almost obtuse connection seems to be coming
1:37.7	to light. These places designed for reform, or indeed to make people well.
1:45.0	Think along the lines of Dembe Asylum that we've already covered,
1:48.7	and now the Mansfield Reformatry,
1:51.6	they have the most stunning architecture.
1:56.2	These places are not what you would picture
1:58.8	when you picture an asylum, a reformatory.
2:01.6	The literal Victorian-esque palaces, yet designed and built at some point within the last 100 to 200 years.
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