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# Eastern State Penitentiary · OpenVibe.Tours

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# Eastern State Penitentiary

A former prison and National Historic Landmark, which once housed notorious criminals like bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone (the former tunneled out), and drew famous visitors like Charles Dickens and Alexis de Tocqueville.

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## Why go

It was a progressive institution upon its founding, dedicated to reform, rather than punishment, and the principal new method used to enable the reform process (dubbed the Pennsylvania System) was to keep prisoners in separate confinement (it was then debated whether this would help lead to reform or to mental illness).

Source: [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Philadelphia/North)

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