The reformatory closed in 1990 when the new Mansfield Correctional Institution opened nearby. The Ohio State Reformatory then sat vacant for several years until purchased by the preservation society.

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 ...

It seemed almost fitting that two inmates' paintings of the historic Ohio State Reformatory sold quickly in the Central Guard ...

TIFFIN – A Mansfield ... prison on a charge of compelling prostitution, a felony of the third degree, in Seneca County Common Pleas Court. Shane Allyne withdrew an earlier guilty plea but ...