Not long ago we visited the Eastern State Pen. in Philadelphia. When Kim first suggested it I thought, what kind of nutty idea has she come up with this time
? It was among the first "modern" prisons in the US and is kept up as a museum. It really was very, very interesting. I would suggest it to anybody who is passing through there. Apparently in the 50s they had TV sets high up on the wall in each corridor for the prisoners to watch, and there was a closed-circuit type of radio hookup for each cell, switchable among a few stations from what I could tell. (maybe like on an airplane?) There is special cell where Al Capone stayed and they have it outfitted with a radio. They didn't have the age right, though. He was there in the 20s but they have a mid-30s Philco on display.