The Ohio State Reformatory/Mansfield Reformatory, a shuttered prison in Mansfield, Ohio, was made famous as the film setting of 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption. The Blade/Amy E. Voigt Buy This ...

Originally a place of rehabilitation, the reformatory later became a maximum security prison before closing in 1990. The Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society bought the building for $1 and ...

But the Mansfield, Ohio landmark is perhaps best known for "The Shawshank Redemption," starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. And you might have visited the reformatory for its annual haunted ...