Prisoner artwork on the wall of the abandoned Holmesburg Prison
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/holmesburg-prison
Philadelphia's Abandoned Holmesburg Prison : A Dream of Release

Holmesburg Prison, Eastern State Penitentiary's more decayed and less accessible sister, was everything I hoped an abandoned prison would be. By Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America.

@AbandonedAmerica The history of that place is awful and terrifying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acres_of_Skin
Acres of Skin - Wikipedia

The Skin Experiments at Holmesburg Prison

Listen to this episode from Abandoned America on Spotify. In this episode we talk with Dr. Cristina Visperas about her new book "Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory", which explores the shocking past of the now-abandoned Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. For decades Dr. Albert Kligman conducted unethical and harrowing medical experiments on Holmesburg's inmates - in this episode we explore what those experiments were, how they formed the basis of the modern dermatology industry, and what happened in their aftermath. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abandonedamerica/support

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They are calling to you.
Haunting.

@AbandonedAmerica I read that short story. The artwork comes to life and hilarity ensues.
@AbandonedAmerica I wonder if there's anything showing it back when it was new
@NekoArc the drawing? Not to my knowledge but that doesn't mean that it isn't out there

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When four men are boiled to death, when that kind of anguish of guilty and innocently locked up men has happened, that has to leave an entire community of ghosts.

@Chopinsheart if I believed in ghosts, that would certainly be what I'd think would create them, I agree