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Tag: Western State Penitentiary

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Silent penitentiary casts long, deep shadows at night

by Steve MellonApril 25, 2023December 6, 2023

At night, Western Penitentiary is a dark and looming presence along the eastern bank of the Ohio River in the Marshall-Shadeland area of the North Side. The former prison’s 40-foot-high walls once housed more than 2,500 souls and in its nearly 140-year history, was a place of mundane routine, violence, redemption, despair, rehabilitation, terror, daring […]

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