article_snippet: Built in 1829, it was the first jail to implement solitary confinement for every single inmate which is thought to have brought on mental illness.
article_snippet: Chilling: Thousands of hardcore prisoners housed within these tiny cells in the Philadelphia would live alone, eat alone and even exercised alone in tiny individual yards .
article_snippet: so The guards could not see any of the others or map out the first prison in America to implement solitary confinement in The guards minds .
article_snippet: Notorious: the first prison in America to implement solitary confinement even housed feared prohibition-era gangster Al Capone whose luxurious room has been restored for tourists .
article_snippet: King among prisoners: Al Capone spent most of Al Capone one year sentence in relative comfort and was allowed to furnish Al Capone cell with antiques, rugs, and oil paintings .
article_snippet: The prison designer's ambitious mechanical innovations placed each prisoner had The prison designer or her own private cell, centrally heated, with running water, a flush toilet, and a skylight .
article_snippet: a flush toilet, and a skylight crumbling stone walls, dark corridors and claustrophobia-inducing cells once housed thousands of hardcore criminals.
article_snippet: The solitary confinement system housed infamous criminals like bank robber Willie Sutton and even Al Capone who headed a criminal syndicate illegally supplying alcohol during the prohibition in the early-1900s.
article_snippet: Prisoners at Eastern State were thought to have gone insane having been housed inside tiny cells with little light and air .