Published by admin on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 10:31am
In your travels this summer, I hope many of you will visit the Joliet Penitentiary on Collins Street. It is certainly worth the visit. The tour guides are knowledgeable and you can learn much. Today we look at escapes from that place as written in the Joliet Weekly News in 1884. It was a sort of a scandal sheet. The reporter spent lots of time at the penitentiary getting back ground for his sensational stories. So, pick up the January 10 edition and put on your reading glasses as we read about escaping.