The demolition of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus was completed in 1998, the same year that Chester Himes’ novel Yesterday Will Make You Cry, set within that very same prison’s walls, was published. The autobiographical novel narrates the story of Jimmy Monroe, Himes’ white alter ego, who finds himself doing time at the Ohio Pen, where … Continue reading Our Local Debt of Time, Episode One: Demolition at the Ohio Pen