Prisons Where the Building Was the Punishment
38K views · Aug 16, 2026 · Education
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@historicdave1 · 1 month ago · pinned
Eastern State Penitentiary wasn't built by cruel people — it was built by reformers who genuinely believed that silence and a skylight would make you better, and it drove men mad instead. Which of these eight would you least want to wake up in?
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@davidqualls1766 · 1 month ago
One doesn't die of starvation in a week or less, it can take up to 3 weeks or more. However, dehydration takes from 3 to 7 days.
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@johnruiz6743 · 1 month ago
Some of these are like Oubliettes (the forgetting place) in medieval castles. 💀
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@mnsu4820 · 1 month ago
Some careful editing would help this a lot.
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@fangslaughter1198 · 1 month ago
Number one ...is like trying to sleep in a potash mine.<br>Potash ore freshly mined is so hot you can barely hold it.
@Catharina_de_los_ANDES · 1 month ago
#5, you say the number of prisoners was too high. But wasn’t that a total counted over the years?
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@rogerbarton1790 · 4 weeks ago
Beneath the leeds? leads is pronounced leds.
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@othername1000 · 4 weeks ago
We need a prison colony
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@ÅsmundIdland-q4i · 1 month ago
I wonder if Magnus Midtbø could have gotten out. He's done "impossible"things before.
@LoganGuerra-x5 · 1 month ago
not the leed
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@banjopickle · 1 month ago
...people just living in the bottle... 🎵
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@thomaschristopher8593 · 1 month ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_jamGrOVOM&t=1159">19:19</a> Papillon
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