Eastern State Penitentiary

The Prison Palimpsest: A Former Tour Guide Looks Back at Eastern State Penitentiary

The Prison Palimpsest: A Former Tour Guide Looks Back at Eastern State Penitentiary

August 23, 2019

More than 200 years ago, a group of Philadelphian reformers had a utopian vision of how prisons...

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