Angel’s travelogue

The Ohio State Reformatory uploaded on 2 June 2009

The Ohio State Reformatory
Designed by Architect Levi T. Scofield, the Ohio State Reformatory opened its doors in 1896 as a facility to rehabilitate young male offenders through hard work & education. A self-sufficient institution with its own power plant & working farm, the reformatory produced goods in its workshops for other state institutions & provided opportunities for inmates to learn trades. As social attitudes towards crime hardened in the mid-twentieth century, it became a maximum-security facility. The six-tier East Cell Block is the largest known structure of it’s kind. Considered substandard by the 1970s, The Ohio State Reformatory closed in 1990. It has served since as a setting for several major motion pictures. This Mansfield landmark was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Hallway uploaded on 2 June 2009

Ohio Reformatory - West Cell Block uploaded on 1 June 2009

Listed on the Travel Channel’s “101 Things to do before you Die” and the filming of the movies "The Shawshank Redemption” & “Air Force One" (i.e. used as the Russian prison).