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[September 28, 2007]  MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) -- A masked prisoner, of sorts, got some help with a breakout at the old Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. At the more than 100-year-old prison, now operated as a museum, volunteers came to the aid of a raccoon with a plastic peanut butter jar stuck on its head.

After the critter was spotted scurrying around the grounds last Sunday night, it bumped into a tree and then climbed up and wouldn't come down.

The raccoon rescuers used a rope to pull the small tree over so an off-duty Mansfield police officer who volunteers at the reformatory could grab the animal with a snare.

An official with the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society said that once the plastic prison was cut off, the raccoon made a run for it into the brush.

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Information from: News Journal, http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/

[Associated Press]

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