The 1st INKCARCERATION Music and Tattoo Festival

What is INKCARCERATION Music and Tattoo Festival?

Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio, July 13, 14, 15, 2018

by Daniel Locke

 

I had the change to check out the INKCARCERATION Music and Tattoo Festival at the #OhioStateReformatory this summer. Which took place July 13, 14, 15, 2018, this three-day festival had a bursting with Alternative Rock and Hard rock musical acts and incredible tattoo artists. Some people got that tattoo they had been wanted and see all their favorite bands in one jam-packed weekend.

The inaugural INKCARCERATION Music and Tattoo Festival took place in Mansfield, Ohio at the eerie, enormous Historic

Ohio State Reformatory. This massive, awe-inspiring locale is recognized primarily as not only one of the most haunted buildings in the country, but also as the filming location for the 1994 cinematic classic, The Shawshank Redemption, Starring Hollywood legends Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

The facility has been used in many productions (even while it still held inmates), and perhaps became best-known when it was portrayed as Shawshank State Prison in the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption. Here is a short list of movies and tv shows filmed at The Ohio State Reformatory.

 

• Harry and Walter Go to New York (1975) – Harry and Walter spend some time behind bars at the penitentiary, when the prison was still in operation.
• Tango & Cash (1989) – The facility was used for various prison scenes.
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – The prison was used for a large panning scene and the warden’s office; an officers’ quarters were used to shoot a sequence set in a civilian apartment.
• Air Force One (1997) – The prison was used for scenes of a Russian prison for General Ivan Radek.
• Godsmack “Awake” music video 2000.
• Marilyn Manson promotional photography, 1996 – Frontman, Brian Hugh Warner, grew up in Canton, Ohio.
• Ohio State Reformatory has been the subject of numerous paranormal investigation shows, including the Fox Family Channel’s Scariest Stories on Earth, and Scariest Places On Earth.
• The Travel Channel did a tourism documentary[which?] on the OSR.
• In 2005, The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) investigated the facility for the SciFi Channel’s TV series Ghost Hunters.
• In 2004 Lil Wayne featured this prison in his video for the song “Go DJ”.
• In April 2006 the horror/thriller motion picture Fallen Angels (2007) was filmed almost entirely at OSR.
• WWE shot a promotional poster featuring Triple H for their 2008 Judgment Day event in the facility.
• In 2009 the facility was featured on Ghost Adventures in Season 3 Episode 4.[which?]
• In 2010, the facility was used for an episode of Ghost Hunters Academy.
• It is the filming place for the music video of the song “Relentless Chaos” by Miss May I.
• The Purple Smoke Project (Hip hop group) filmed a video for the song “Calm Down” in 2011
• Attack Attack! shot a portion of their video “Smokahontas” in 2011
• Anti-Flag shot the majority of their video for “The New Sound” in the prison
• The National Geographic Channel featured the prison on the show Inside: Secret America S1/Ep 05 for the episode “Ghosts” in 2013
• eGhost Asylum on Destination America in 2015
• In 2016 the reformatory was investigated and featured on The Hambone Show
• David Allen Coe and The Moonshine Bandits (2017) Recorded a music video for “Take This Job and Shove It”
• In 2017, nu-metal act, Motograter filmed a video for the song “Dorian”
• On May 11, 2018, the facility was featured on an episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved, hosted by the believer in the paranormal, Ryan Bergara, and spirit skeptic Shane Madej.
I got to walk the same halls as history’s most infamous prisoners. Most people immersed themselves into the foundation that formed The Shawshank Redemption. Some were hunting for the paranormal or simply looking to tour the beautiful architecture, you had it at The Ohio State Reformatory.

 

Also there were artifacts like the typewriter that Sam Shepherd uesed.

 

Sam Sheppard was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1923. In 1954, Sheppard’s wife Marilyn was found murdered in their home. Sheppard was convicted of the killing and sentenced to life in prison, but he maintained his innocence throughout the trial and during his incarceration. After a lengthy appeals process, in 1964 he was released from prison, and during a 1966 retrial, he was found not guilty. Afterward, Sheppard turned to alcohol and died of liver failure on April 6, 1970. The 1963 television series The Fugitive and the 1993 movie of the same name were inspired by Sheppard’s case.

Everyone got to explore The Ohio State Reformatory at their own pace with a Self-Guided Tour. During a self-guided tour, you had access to Administrative Areas, Residential Quarters, both East and West Cellblocks and Solitary Confinement.
The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States. It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until 1990, when a United States Federal Court ruling (the ‘Boyd Consent Decree’) ordered the facility to be closed.

The Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society is currently working to restore the facility to its original state. Restorations to date include the removal of debris, replacement of roofing, complete restoration of the Warden’s quarters, as well as the complete restoration of the central guard room between the East and West Cell Blocks. The restorations are being funded through donations and tour fees. The windows of the south side east cell block have been replaced, as well as all of the original stained glass windows that were in the building and are currently being re-installed in the building.

Ohio. INKCARCERATION 2018 featured over 30 bands on 2 outdoor stages. The event also featured tattoo artists, prison tours, vendors, and more.
2018 Lineup Included: Rise Against, A Day to Remember, Bush, Black Label Society, Clutch, Our Lady Peace, Suicidal Tendencies, Fuel, Hatebreed, Sevendust and lots more. Photos of the bands will follow next week.

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