I have been by this place several times when down in Northeast Philly but never visited it. It's most famous residents were Al Capone and Willie Sutton. Capone was caught with an concealed unlicensed gun and received a one year sentence. His cell was decorated quite lavishly. In 1945 Sutton and twelve others escaped from the penitentiary but were recaptured. Every Halloween they have a haunted tour. The perfect place for it.