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EPISODE · Jan 8, 2018 · 1H 10M

Episode 61: Eastern State Penitentiary

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Episode 61: Eastern State Penitentiary Jay walks us through Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This story contains: 1. Operation dates of the prison were 1829 - 1971! (Resonant energy!) 2. The prison followed the “Pennsylvania System” of rehabilitation. (Woops! Solitary confinement!) 3. Prisoners were tortured. (Waterboarding! Iron gags! The Hole!) 4. The prison was designed for 250 occupants. (At its most populated, there were 1,800 people in residence!) 5. When Al Capone was a prisoner there – he saw the ghost of James Clark. (Clark died in the St. Valentine’s Day massacre.) Sweet Dreams XOXOZzzz.

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