We recently visited Eastern State Penitentiary on a tour of Philadelphia and I will say that is was my favorite stop of the trip. While a lot of the other sites were interesting and historical and I added to my US History Knowledge, this tour delighted my visual senses and I would go back in a heartbeat.
"Eastern State Penitentiary broke sharply with the prisons of its day, abandoning corporal punishment and ill treatment. This massive new structure, opened in 1829, became one of the most expensive American buildings of its day and soon the most famous prison in the world. The Penitentiary would not simply punish, but move the criminal toward spiritual reflection and change. The method was a Quaker-inspired system of isolation from other prisoners, with labor. The early system was strict. To prevent distraction, knowledge of the building, and even mild interaction with guards, inmates were hooded whenever they were outside their cells. But the proponents of the system believed strongly that the criminals, exposed, in silence, to thoughts of their behavior and the ugliness of their crimes, would become genuinely penitent. Thus the new word, penitentiary."-Eastern State Pennitentiary
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| Imprisoned Overtime (B&W) |
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| Imprisoned Overtime (Color) |
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| Looking Up |
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| Taken for "Men" Week for 52 Frames |
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| Golden Light |
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| Cellblock #5 |
