Tour Guide Nick Gilette discusses some of the features of ESP, and how it was different than other prisons at the time. Clip 1: According to tour guide Nick Gilette, how were cell blocks at Eastern ...

In 2021, Christina Spence and her husband Ricky Scalia eloped and got married at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and it had to do with the fact that Spence wanted to have a simple ...

The castle-like Eastern State Penitentiary is one of Philadelphia's most important historic sites. Having opened in 1829, this Quaker-inspired prison sought to reform prisoners using isolation and ...