The Shawshank Redemption, 1994
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visit the film locations
Ohio: Mansfield Reformatory, 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, on I-30, 65 miles southwest of Akron (tel: 419.522.2644)
Trivia
Mansfield Reformatory features as the ‘Russian’ prison in Air Force One, and is also seen in1976’s Harry and Walter Go To New York, with James Caan, Elliott Gould and Michael Caine; and 1989’s Tango & Cash, with Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell.
The Shawshank Redemption location: ‘Shawshank State Prison’: Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio
Photograph: Erik Hollander
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) finds redemption during twenty years imprisonment. ‘Shawshank State Prison, Maine’ is the Mansfield Reformatory, 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, on I-30, 65 miles southwest of Akron, Ohio. The facility had lain dormant for four years and was scheduled for demolition, but it’s now a museum. The website has a detailed breakdown of scenes filmed around Mansfield.
Prison scenes for Air Force One, Harry and Walter Go To New York and Tango & Cash were also filmed in the reformatory.
