Unformatted text preview: solitary confinement, forced silence, alone with bible. Eastern penn built 30 years later, also virtually invented indoor plumbing. Prisons go back hundreds of years, penitentiaries go back only a few hundred. Old new burg was the first prison, virtually, open in US in 1770s....
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- Spring '06
- Philly, Supermax, prison reform society, Old new burg