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Episode 260: The Eastern State Penitentiary

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The Philadelphia Society for Public Prisons

In 1787, Dr. Benjamin Rush founded the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons. In 1821, Pennsylvania legislature finally decided to listen to what these people were saying and approved funding for world's first true penitentiary. The Eastern State Penitentiary was one of the most expensive projects in the entire world.

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