2024-05-03T09:42:04Z https://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Breakout-Kings&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:architectsofanewdawn.ning.com,2011-09-07:2227378:Video:293590 2011-09-07T22:56:52.357Z Barek Halfhand https://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/profile/BarekHalfhand

<a href="https://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/video/the-haunted-old-joliet-prison"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2970604822?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>Construction began on the medieval style castle prison complete with turrets and crenelated topped walls of the admin building in 1858 and a workforce of inmates and contractors shared the task ...this site housed civil war POWs and criminals by 1860, even though the building wasn't retrofitted with the basic amenity of running water in the cells until as late as the…

<a href="https://architectsofanewdawn.ning.com/video/the-haunted-old-joliet-prison"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2970604822?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Construction began on the medieval style castle prison complete with turrets and crenelated topped walls of the admin building in 1858 and a workforce of inmates and contractors shared the task ...this site housed civil war POWs and criminals by 1860, even though the building wasn't retrofitted with the basic amenity of running water in the cells until as late as the 1940's the civil war prisoners were probably better off there than Chicago's notoriously cruel and unsanitary; Camp Douglas that claimed so many lives...<br /> <br /> There have been riots, the murder of a Warden's wife, rumors of a singing ghost in the prison cemetery that drew thousand of curiosity seekers until the ghost was discovered to be a certain night guard that had a penchant for crooning to himself to stave off the lonely quietude of his post ...