article_snippet.sent: Holmesburg Prison's 101-year history was filled with violent riots, bloody beatings and most shocking of all - the cruel chemical experimentation on Holmesburg Prison's 101-year history inmates.
article_snippet.sent: Since Holmesburg Prison's 101-year history construction in 1895, Holmesburg Prison's 101-year history high walls housed some of the country's most dangerous criminals whose uprisings ended in death and mass-injury.
article_snippet.sent: Nearly two decades after its closure in 1995, all that remains of one of the most notorious and violent prisons in American history is cracked paint, crumbling hallways and empty cells which once housed its human guinea pigs.
article_snippet.sent: The 1,200 inmates once housed inside Holmesburg Prison - where some rooms were padded with filthy mattresses (pictured) - were subjected to cruel clinical experimentation .
article_snippet.sent: Since its construction in 1895, some of the country's most dangerous criminals walked the halls of Holmesburg prison (pictured)
article_snippet.sent: Since its closure in 1996, one of the few things that remain in tact in Holmesburg Prison are the old books read by prisoners who were once used as human guinea pigs . '
article_snippet.sent: Accidental death': Many people were killed inside Holmesburg and in one incident in 1952, an inmate found dead in a bathtub with an autopsy concluding that he was beaten to death .
article_snippet.sent: Abandoned: Nearly two decades after its closure in 1996, the prison's halls have fallen eerily silent as the terrifying building slowly wastes away .
article_snippet.sent: Infected: The cruelty unfolding at Holmesburg was not isolated and at Stateville prison (pictured), an army doctor watched malaria-carrying mosquitoes bite the stomach of another inmate .
article_snippet.sent: Holmesburg has left such a terrifying legacy that Holmesburg has since been used as the set of violent prison movies such as Animal Factory in 2000 and Law Abiding Citizen starring Gerard Butler in 2009.
highlights_snippet.sent: Haunting images show the decaying ruins of Holmesburg Prison where scientists experimented on Holmesburg Prison prisoners .
  