Eastern State Penitentiary - from our story 'Benjamin Franklin Forced Enlightenment On Isolated Prisoners Inside The World’s First Penitentiary'

Inmates shoemaking, c. 1897. Photo: collection of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, from Warden Cassidy on Prisons and Convicts.

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