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Episode 260: The Eastern State Penitentiary

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The History of the Eastern State Penitentiary

In 1884, Eastern state saw what his believed to be its first guard murder. In the 1880s, Cell Block 3 was converted into a hospital that was equipped with an x-ray room and separate rooms for inmates suffering from tuberculosis. The warden of the prison at that point was Michael Cassidy who designed the new cell blocks. And he really believed that if you treated these people like humans, then maybe they would act like humans when you release them back into society.

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