Bonus

Historic Lewisburg Prison is featured in Carla Conti's true crime memoir Chained Birds. Lewisburg Penitentiary was once nicknamed "Mafia Row" for its list of jailed mobsters including Al Capone, a.k.a. Scarface, Whitey Bulger, Jimmy Hoffa, John Gotti and Henry Hill.
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It’s no spoiler to reveal that my true crime memoir Chained Birds is also part exposΓ© of the horrific experimental prison program that operated at Pennsylvania’s Lewisburg Prison from 2009-2018. One of the book’s main characters, federal inmate Kevin Sanders, was my inside source who helped me chronicle the cruelty and bloodshed inside Lewisburg as he was swept up...