The movie was shot here, at the old, abandoned Mansfield Reformatory Prison.
In the middle of the triangle Lucas-Perrysville-Butler, in the state Ohio, you can find a piece of land with a large oak tree, next to a small stone wall. This is where Dufresne buried a metal box, containing a letter and some money. It was later dug up by Red, at the end of the movie. The filming location is at the corner of Pleasant Valley Road and Bromsfield Road.
Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S.V.I. Sandy Point Beach.
On the east end, south shore of St. Croix, U.S.V.I. Is where the scene of Andy driving a red 1968 Pontiac Convertable heading east on the South Shore road.