"Keys to the Cages" recounts the frightful story of a fire at the
Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus on Easter Monday 1930. First
fire responders wait in open-air trucks outside a locked gate.
Cries of men bolted behind steel bars are heard widely amidst
creeping flames and black smoke, while individual cell door keys
hang on guard room hooks, undisturbed. It is the change of shift.
Guards debate the wisdom of releasing any keys to unlock the cells.
The fire attracts thousands of Columbus people, who stand around
prison gates while tragedies unfold inside. This is also an account
of inmate Theophilus Kabel of Dayton, institutionalized at an early
age into a life devoid of personal decision-making. He is
emancipated into a world full of uncharted freedom, yet his attempt
to fit into society fails; he is soon arrested and forced
hopelessly into this deadly prison setting. His story gives voice
to men logged only as statistics in the annals of America's
deadliest prison fire. Three hundred and twenty-two die that night.
None on death row.
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