reformatory

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In Mansfield: “The Shawshank Redemption” was filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory, where Tim Robbins’s character tells the inmate played by Morgan Freeman: “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

She is in her first semester at Sinclair College here at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, and she is doubting herself.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2023

Over the last five years he’s pieced together his education one class at a time, starting at the now-shuttered Washington State Reformatory in Monroe.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

The Washington State Reformatory was targeted for closure because of empty beds and high operating costs.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2022

The girls got one to five years, in the Women’s Reformatory at Framingham, Massachusetts.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey