Mackenzie Shirilla’s Prison Conduct Reports Revealed — A Pattern of Rule Violations That Keeps Growing

She told the court she was a victim of her own medical condition. She told her friends in jail calls that she did not need to be rehabilitated. And now, conduct reports obtained from the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville are painting a picture of a young woman who has spent her time behind bars collecting rule violations at a rate that prison officials apparently cannot ignore.

Mackenzie Shirilla, 21, is serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life for the July 2022 crash in Strongsville, Ohio, that killed her boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and their friend Davion Flanagan, 19. She will not be eligible for parole until 2037.

According to conduct reports obtained by TMZ, the violations began accumulating not long after her arrival and have continued in the years since.

Contraband and Medication

Among the most notable incidents on record is one from January 2025, when prison officials say Shirilla was found in possession of prescription medication that did not belong to her. Alongside the medication, officers reportedly discovered what they described as a personal photo of Shirilla that appeared to depict drug use.

In her response to officials, Shirilla denied the photo showed what officers claimed — and insisted the pills were prenatal vitamins she had obtained from another inmate.

Officers also documented finding altered prison clothing and additional contraband during her time at the facility — violations that, taken individually, might seem minor, but together suggest a pattern of testing the boundaries of prison rules on a consistent basis.

A Record That Keeps Growing

The conduct reports represent a side of Shirilla’s incarceration that has not previously been made public — and one that raises questions about the claims made by both Shirilla and her family that her conviction was a miscarriage of justice.

Since Netflix released The Crash on May 15 — a documentary revisiting the case through interviews with both Shirilla’s family and the families of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan — public interest in every aspect of Shirilla’s story has surged. Jail calls obtained by PEOPLE in the weeks surrounding the documentary’s release revealed Shirilla referring to herself as the third victim of the crash, telling her mother she did not believe she needed rehabilitation, and listening as friends described Russo — the man a court found she murdered — as her guardian angel.

The conduct reports add another chapter to a story that shows no signs of fading from public conversation.

Shirilla has not responded to requests for comment regarding the violations.

She remains at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, where she will spend at minimum another decade before becoming eligible for parole — a timeline that the families of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan have had to learn to live alongside, one year at a time.

Source: Compiled from various sources