who was locked up in eastern state penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary Notorious criminals such as Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton were held inside its innovative wagon wheel design. James Bruno (Big Joe) and several male relatives were incarcerated here between 1936 and 1948 for the alleged murders in the Kelayres massacre of 1934, before they were pardoned.[7] At its completion, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected in the United States,[8] and quickly became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide.