(If any ghosts still haunt their execution site, they’re haunting what is now Nationwide Arena.) 'The Shawshank Redemption' filmed at Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the state’s official Correctional Facility Museum, the site displays mementos from prisons around the state, including “Old Sparky,” the electric chair where 315 inmates were put to death at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. ![]() Opened in 1896 and closed in 1990, the former reformatory is a beautiful, if haunting, example of Romanesque Revival architecture, which Cleveland architect Levi Scofield hoped would inspire the youthful offenders housed there to turn their lives around.
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