Some of the best advice you’ll ever hear is simple: don’t go to prison. But sometimes, it’s unavoidable. If you do, the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville isn’t what you’d expect, more like a college campus than a prison. Programs, classes, even freedom to move during three daily yard times.

Yard time is where everything happens, fresh air, social life, information. It’s where people start whispering about the show they just saw.

The one about 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla.

The same Mackenzie walking the yard, full face of makeup, hair done, curls set, gems in her hair.

That one?

Killed two people.

And now, one former inmate says,

She’s in the bathroom getting trains run on her…

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