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Amy Ma's picture

Eastern State was an eerie place, not necessarily having the effects on its prisoners it hoped to.This doesn’t work well-most of prisoners have no ability to read and spend their time (which is what they got) in trying to communicate with their neighbors. Eastern State Penitatiary seemed more like a place to cause someone to go mad rather than teach them to reflect I see a complete disregard for the humanity of the prisoners.Communication can’t be stopped.Small sense of satisfaction that it failed because of its unrealistic goals.