“How 12 convicts escaped by tunnel from Eastern Penitentiary,” Diagram of the Tunnel published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, April 3, 1945 Philadelphia Inquirer via Easter State Penitentiary ...

The original bars of Cell Block 15 were stolen after Eastern State Penitentiary was abandoned in the 1970s. As part of Menjivar’s art installation, he replaced the missing bars with clear acrylic ones ...

When Matthew Murphy began working at Eastern State Penitentiary, in Philadelphia, in 2013, most visitors to the famous former prison were seeking out “something morbid — pain, suffering ...