Published by admin on Mon, 12/21/2020 - 3:14pm
This Christmas will be the strangest in most of our lifetimes. Covid has us staying home, some feel like they are in prison. But they are not. Today we will find out what Christmas in a prison is really like. Set the wayback for 1875, place the Joliet Penitentiary.
The reporter from the Joliet Weekly visited the prison on Christmas Day, and strangely enough, so did many other people from the area. The very sight of the righteous may be a good example to the convicts, or at least that is how they looked at it. The following is from that reporter's article.