By the 1980s, conditions deteriorated to the point where inmates sued the state and won. The reformatory closed in 1990 when the new Mansfield Correctional Institution opened nearby. The Ohio ...

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 ...

Destination Mansfield has announced that two mid-19th-century houses adjacent to the Ohio State Reformatory, which served as the cult classic’s prison set, are available to visitors through Airbnb.

It seemed almost fitting that two inmates' paintings of the historic Ohio State Reformatory sold quickly ... Artwork by prisoners at the Mansfield Correctional Institution and Richland ...

Charles Gibbs and Cory Sutphin were sentenced to the same prison system on Tuesday that they used drones to drop drugs, phones and contraband into.