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The Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6] It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. The penitentiary refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration , first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail , which emphasized principles of ...
Eastern State Penitentiary opened in 1829 on what was then a cherry orchard outside of Philadelphia. It was considered at the time to be "the world's greatest penitentiary." Known to historians as "the first true penitentiary," Eastern State operated until 1970. The Bureau of Correction was created by an act of Legislature in September 1953.
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.
Pep (c. 1923 – 1930) was a black Labrador Retriever [a] who was falsely accused of murdering a cat. [1] On August 31, 1924, Pep was sent to the Eastern State Penitentiary where he received inmate number C-2559 and had his mugshot and paw prints taken.
The State Correctional Institution – Graterford, commonly referred to as SCI Graterford, known prior as Eastern Correctional Institution, Graterford Prison, Graterford Penitentiary, and the Graterford Prison Farm, was a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections prison located in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, [1] near Graterford. [2]
Pennsylvania— Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA. Known for housing notorious criminals like Al Capone and Willie Sutton, the once-operational Eastern State Penitentiary in ...
The Pennsylvania system, first implemented in the early 1830s at that state's Eastern State Penitentiary outskirts of Philadelphia and Western State Penitentiary at Pittsburgh, was designed to maintain the complete separation of inmates at all times. [114]
Western Penitentiary was designed by John Haviland and built in 1826 two miles south-east from the current facility by the architect Strickland. [3] The original site is now home to the National Aviary. During Charles Dickens visit to the city March 20–22, 1842, he visited the original prison.