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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.

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