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Locked Up In Louisiana: Inside America’s Bloodiest Prison
What a World
From ‘Gruesome Gertie,’ the electric chair, to the warden who lashed inmates with a leather strap, Louisiana State Penitentiary celebrates its hellish past in a museum.
Nina Strochlic
Published
Jan. 28 2015
5:45AM EST
Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast
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