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

Their investigation turned when Staton and Brawner visited Robbins in the maximum-security Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, and he recanted his statement implicating Dority.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

The closure of the Washington State Reformatory is part of a larger movement to reduce prison capacity around the United States, partly due to a declining incarcerated population.

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