article_snippet.sent: Ghostly: These now-empty cells inside the abandoned Philadelphia jail were once occupied by desperate inmates who underwent the cruel procedures for 'money to buy cigarettes' Command: The guards ran the cruel institution from the 'control room' where The guards would monitor and coordinate The guards response to  riots .
article_snippet.sent: Prisoners in the jail were deliberately 'exposed to pathogens that caused skin infections' such as herpes and the fungus which causes athlete's foot, Allen Hornblum claimed in Allen Hornblum book Acres of Skin.
article_snippet.sent: During the experiment which One former prisoner who featured in a book about the cruelty which took place took part in for money to buy cigarettes in prison, One former prisoner who featured in a book about the cruelty which took place remembers screaming: 'Oh my God, my back is on fire!
article_snippet.sent: Torture: Dissidence was dealt with severely and the men who led a hunger strike in 1938 were locked in 'the bake ovens' (not pictured) where four of the men who led a hunger strike in 1938 'roasted to death
article_snippet.sent: The inmates - who would eat in this now-filthy cafeteria - were deliberately exposed to pathogens that caused skin infections such as herpes and the fungus which causes athlete's foot .
article_snippet.sent: Dangerous: the prison was the site of hundreds of violent attacks, breakouts, corrupt guards and rape of prisoners who stayed in bare cells like this one .
article_snippet.sent: The prison was also the site of hundreds of violent attacks, breakouts, corrupt guards and rape of prisoners, according to Philly.com. Philly.com alleges that 25 leaders of a hunger strike in 1938 were locked up in a section of the prisons known as 'the bake ovens'.
article_snippet.sent: The prison guards turned the heat in the rooms up to 190 degrees Fahrenheit and when the doors were opened 58 hours later, four inmates had 'roasted to death'.
article_snippet.sent: The prison shifted 235 of The prison most dangerous inmates to the equally infamous Eastern State Penitentiary following that incident.
highlights_snippet.sent: Renowned dermatologist who experimented on prisoners has claimed no harm was done to any of the 'volunteers'
  The prisoners who led a 38-day hunger strike in 1938 were locked in 'the bake ovens' where four 'roasted to death' 