1,016 Comments for Eastern State Penitentiary

Mama, if it had hospital facilities and an OR, it'd need a lab. Blood tests, etc.

...You can just hear the test tubes bubbling in the background...:o

Fantastic shot!!!

...and all this is actually on the tour?? Cooool...! Gotta get up there...

I think that was put up for the Halloween haunted house they do every year. Part of the route goes through the hospital wing I remember seeing that, and that door and the numbers look fairly new. I'll tell you though I thought this place was much scarier during the day than it was the night before when we did the haunted house.

I will next time I visit here, paul

@Andrew Last time, I didn't have time to go inside. Next time, I will probably get more time to explore the insides.

this is not the barber shop, it was a form of torture which this prison had many methods of. if a prisoner was caught talking they would be strapped down to this chair for hours or days. with a metal mouthpiece in their mouth that would cut their tounge if one speaks.

That's magnificent. The artist has talent.

If those walls could talk. Imagine the drama, the conversations, the redemption that went on in there over many, many decades. This would have been where an inmate was told of the death of a family member. This was where they confessed & asked for redemption. This was where they conversed with a man of the cloth to unburdened themselves or to seek assistance. So many tears stained those floors.

I can imagine an aged inmate lying in that bed, sweating in the stifling heat of a Philadelphia August day. Perhaps he suffers from Hepatitis B, or advanced lung disease from smoking for 63 years. Each breath is exhausting and he grows too tired to carry on the task of daily living. He is alone, long forgotten by his family and no one but his Creator cares.

Can't wait to go there and get some great pictures myself. Very inspiring, thank you!

"Cellblock Fifteen opened in April 1959, replacing Cellblock Thirteen as the maximum security block. Extending from the end of Cellblock Two, Cellblock Fifteen had 17 cells on each of its two floors. This block became known as "Death Row" when men with death sentences were placed here between 1959 and 1961; however, there were never any executions at Eastern."
http://www.easternstat...lore/online-360-tour

Riiight, then that explains it

And Merc24, I didn't go inside; I toured the outside instead.