@_s1bangout39_'s Review of Eastern State Penitentiary - Philadelphia, PA

Mun Street Jail and Philadelphia to await punishment. You can see all sorts of prisoners. Men and women, adults and children petty thieves and murderers thrown into the jails together and left to scheme where a fight among themselves and crowded unheeded rooms. But as bad as these jails were, they were not designed to punish. They were simply holding pens for those waiting to receive their sentences. Flogging, whipping, public humiliation, heavy fines, public execution. These were the typical punishments of the seventeen hundreds.