Children were held there too, as revealed in an 1870 Eagle article: "At the further end of the wing is a room used for ironing, and as a nursery, and three or four little babies give proof that children must be born, even in the Penitentiary," to which the reporter somewhat disdainfully adds, "but they are not necessarily criminals".
But no worries, they've been upgraded since then, all the way from penitentiary to boutique.
Morehead cooperated with the legislature and developed a plan to expand the penitentiary to 252 cells.
Blackburn compared conditions at the penitentiary to the infamous Black Hole of Calcutta.
He got into trouble, for the first time in his life, for a sudden and unprovoked assault on a contractor who employed him, and was sent to the penitentiary from which he had not been long released when he made his journey with Brown.
She had been active in charity work in California while she was married, but her devotion intensified after a priest led her to La Mesa state penitentiary, which housed convicted murderers, gang leaders, rapists and other serious felons.
Stirred into action by the 1930 Ohio penitentiary fire, which resulted in 300 deaths when guards refused to let inmates out of their cells, Hollywood produced movies which depicted the harsh conditions in prisons at the time.
A fiscal conservative, Owsley reduced the state's deficit slightly, and was reluctant to rebuild the state penitentiary, which was damaged by fire.
The Times has a map with pictures and little icons, including one for the penitentiary from which prisoners escaped in the chaos.
The next film in OWN's series, "Serving Life," is as quietly evocative of the subculture it explores, in this instance a prison hospice program at a maximum-security Louisiana penitentiary in which inmates care for the dying.
She had no illusions about what poetry could do in the face of "the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same".
