Eastern State Penitentiary

The fact that-

... and we were near, we were, like, practically across the street from Eastern State Penitentiary.

Yeah.

And every...

First up, if you're looking to tap into those peak spooky season vibes right out of the gate, the city's major haunts are officially unlocked.

Over in Far- Fairmount, Halloween nights at Eastern State Penitentiary is running this Friday, Saturday, and next Thursday night.

If you haven't been in a couple years, they've really shifted the experience.

It's less about generic jump scares and way more focused on immersive cinematic spaces.

freedom, and yet in amongst the streets stands a fortress that was built for exact opposite, a 30-foot stone wall that Iron doors, dark corridors, and thousands of cells designed to keep human beings completely alone.

This is Eastern State Penitentiary.

When it was opened in 1829, it was unlike any other prison in the world has ever seen.

Its revolutionary system was built around isolation.

Whether it's

the story of supernatural and distorted retelling of the poem's physical troubles, where something stranger is impossible to establish with uncertainty but the legend.

And today, the story remains one of the most famous ghost tales connected with the Eastern State Penitentiary.

Now come, Now we come to one of those most infamous and notorious areas in the prison,

You're wanted for murder.

Bowers and Andreoli were tried promptly for the murder of State Trooper Broski, Don, and both received life sentences in Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia.

In prison, Bowers was assigned to the corner cell of the 10th cell block.

He became sullen and moody.

Bowers recovered from his wound, Don.

And he and the other men who participated in that break last

April the 3rd... are back in Eastern State Penitentiary.

Well, that certainly was quick work on the part of Pennsylvania Police, Dr. Simon.

I think it's a very large part of it.

without any oversight or practical way of outside pressure, within four years of opening Eastern State Penitentiary, in Philadelphia, there was a legislative inquiry into torture there.

Within four years, they were basically waterboarding and beating and putting prisoners in the hole after it opened.

And Eastern State was the first penitentiary that we opened.

We're sort of recognizing that these early models don't work.

What are some of the major changes that occur in this progressive era before we get into the more modern mass incarceration era throughout the country?

yeah by like the 1870s it was pretty apparent that the like jacksonian wave of prisons like eastern state penitentiary auburn weren't really working and weren't really going to work um especially the pennsylvania model which was almost complete isolation required solitary cells and it was unworkable during crime waves especially because you know they had nowhere to put everyone So they started working on different models.

In the 1870s, you start seeing the first sort of reformatories, quote, unquote.