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Episode 260: The Eastern State Penitentiary

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The Story of the Greaterford State Correctional Institution

In 1971, the prison was officially closed. The building ended up being abandoned for so long because nobody could decide what to do with it or figure it out. In 2004, this artist named Linda Brenner made an art installation called Ghost Cat in memory of not only the cat population, but Dan McLeod who would go three times a week and feed them.

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