Eastern State Penitentiary: The Prison Built to Reform Souls — and the Ghosts It Left Behind
About 4 min readWhen Eastern State Penitentiary opened in Philadelphia in 1829, it was the most radical prison experiment in the world: solitary confinement as a path to repentance. It held Al Capone, Willie Sutton and thousands of others — and today its ruined cellblocks are said to be among the most haunted places in America.