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The Graterford grounds include an extensive prison farm on 1,730 acres (7.0 km 2); the 62-acre (250,000 m 2) prison compound itself lies within 30-foot (9.1 m) high walls surmounted by nine staffed towers. An $80 million construction program completed in 1989 added a new administration building, a 28-bed infirmary, and 372 additional cells.
In 1929, Pep was "pardoned" and transferred to the prison farm in Graterford. A 1935 newspaper article related that Pep had grown "too fat and unwieldy and ancient for active prison service" and was "allowed to spend the rest of his days at the home of a retired guard who begged leave to care for him in his old age."
Opened July 11, 2018, replacing the adjoining State Correctional Institution – Graterford, which had been Pennsylvania's largest prison. Graterford opened in 1929 and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970.
Ten former prison guards were indicted for the killing of Robert Brooks, a prisoner incarcerated at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, New York, who was fatally beaten at the prison in ...
The videos, taken from four jail guards, show the officers surrounding Brooks, who was handcuffed from behind, in the exam room before three of them begin punching him in the face and stomach and ...
Irvin Moore served 52 years in prison and now works for Penn State’s Restorative Justice initiative and in the Centre County area, where he now lives in State College. Show comments Advertisement
The prison was closed in 1971. Many prisoners and guards were transferred to Graterford Prison, about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Eastern State. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property with the intention of redeveloping it.
Ten New York prison guards have been indicted in connection to the killing of inmate Robert Brooks — whose brutal, fatal beating was caught on a stomach-churning body-worn camera video.. Six ...