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Apr
23

All Along the Watchtower

Eastern State Penitentiary

The walls at Eastern State Penitentiary are all but unscalable all the way around. In 1945 a group of 12 inmates dug a secret 97 foot tunnel underneath the wall. The infamous bank robber Willy Sutton was among the dirty dozen to escape.

Please see the research post on Eastern State Penitentiary.

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