LIMA CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
Prison — Lima, Allen County, Ohio
Status: Closed · Access: Restricted access
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/lima-correctional-institution-lima-ohio/

Prison associated with documented cultural history.

A prison in Lima, Ohio, Lima Correctional Institution is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Prison associated with documented cultural history. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. It is closed now; the account outlives the building.

Lima is the poured — the 'largest concrete' that's the '15 build, the 'Pentagon beat' that's the record's end. The 'criminally insane' is the held — the 'too dangerous' that's the others' reject, the 'warehouse' that's the care's truth. The '300 escaped' is the walked — the 'breaks frequent' that's the walls' fail, the 'lawsuit '74' that's the rights' win.
The 'ghost tucks' is the told — the 'tucked in' that's the kind spirit, the 'woman feeds' that's the employee's return. The 'closed '04' is the left — the 'asbestos mold' that's the rot's keep, the 'off limits' that's the door's seal. Lima is the shifted — the 'hospital' that's the care's start, the 'prison' that's the '82 turn.
The file keeps Lima: the poured walls, the held insane, the tucked inmates, and the sealed doors.
Lima Correctional is the archive's Ohio file — the asylum that out-poured everything but the Pentagon.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Lima Correctional is the archive's Ohio file — the concrete giant where a ghost still tucks inmates in.
A prison keeps its ghosts — the file's suggestion being that Lima's hold is the kind: the 'tucked in' that's the spirit's care, the 'warehouse' that's the system's fail, and the 'largest pour' that's the ambition's mark.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Inmate accounts describe unexplained voices and a former worker's apparition. Lima Correctional Institution in Lima, Ohio spent its working years housing the desperate; the reports suggest some of that desperation stayed. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: Allen County Hauntings & Legends (https://www.ohioexploration.com/paranormal/hauntings/allencounty/)

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Allen County Hauntings & Legends — Ohio Exploration Society
  https://www.ohioexploration.com/paranormal/hauntings/allencounty/
· Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Greenbook, 128th General Assembly — Ohio Legislative Service Commission
  https://www.lsc.ohio.gov/assets/legislation/128/hb1/en/files/hb1-drc-greenbook-as-enrolled-128th-general-assembly.pdf

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