{"id":142092,"date":"2023-10-06T17:40:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=142092"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:40:31","slug":"eerie-tornado-ravaged-abandoned-prison-used-as-hollywood-setting-left-frozen-in-time-with-execution-room-rusting-cells-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/world-news\/eerie-tornado-ravaged-abandoned-prison-used-as-hollywood-setting-left-frozen-in-time-with-execution-room-rusting-cells-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Eerie tornado-ravaged abandoned prison used as Hollywood setting left frozen in time with execution room & rusting cells | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
CHILLING images have revealed the inside\u00a0<\/strong>of a notorious prison featured in a Hollywood film and Johnny Cash's iconic performance.<\/p>\n The once-bustling Tennessee State Penitentiary now sits abandoned near Nashville, with its eerie execution chambers and crumbling cells.<\/p>\n The prison, which was built in 1898, has been abandoned since its closure in 1992.<\/p>\n But almost three decades later, the hellish jail was torn apart after a\u00a0tornado ripped through Tennessee in 2020.<\/p>\n A 40-yard section of a stone wall and several power poles were knocked down. <\/p>\n Piles of brick walls filled the prison\u2019s courtyard but no people were wounded, CNN reported.<\/p>\n Daring photographer Jeff Hagerman decided to explored the ravaged prison, revealing the harrowing inside of Tennessee State Penitentiary. <\/p>\n The spooky snaps show the prison\u2019s forgotten hospital and dental equipment used in criminals decades ago.<\/p>\n Another picture shows\u00a0a warehouse full of the inmates\u2019 discarded work overalls and cardboard boxes.<\/p>\n The notorious prison was the scene of acclaimed films, including Stephen King's inspired\u00a0The Green Mile, The Last Castle and Walk the Line.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Singer Johnny Cash\u00a0also performed for inmates in December 1968, and recorded a live album called A Concert: Behind Prison Walls in 1976.<\/p>\n Today the prison can be used only for exterior shots because of its condition.<\/p>\n But\u00a0parts of the facility are still used by the Department of Correction for storage and as a training site for its Strike Force unit.<\/p>\n The prison's\u00a0most infamous inmate was killer James Earl\u00a0Ray – convicted in\u00a0the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis.<\/p>\n In a 1973 television interview,\u00a0Ray complained of leading a "cave dweller's existence" in solitary confinement at the prison.<\/p>\n He claimed that\u00a0Tennessee prison officials told him he would be kept in solitary confinement until he abandoned efforts to obtain a new trial.<\/p>\n In Cuba, haunting images revealed the inside of the notorious prison where Fidel Castro was jailed.<\/p>\n The feared Presidio Modelo, located in Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth), fell into disrepair after riots more than five decades ago.<\/p>\n In 1953,\u00a0Castro\u00a0spent two years there, along with his brother Raul, imprisoned by the regime of Fulgencio Batista after a leading a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks.<\/p>\n The same prison then hosted enemies of the new regime and developed a reputation for overcrowding and harsh treatment,\u00a0AtlasObscura.com\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n Presidio Modelo's architecture is heavily inspired by the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill,\u00a0Illinois.<\/p>\n Able to house up to 5,000 inmates, the Cuban hell jail has five buildings in a panopticon design.<\/p>\n In nearby\u00a0El Salvador, thousands of rival skinhead gangsters are\u00a0packed together like sardines inside a hellhole prison.<\/p>\n The Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in\u00a0Tecoluca\u00a0opened its doors six months ago in a bid to crack down on gang violence in the world's murder capital.<\/p>\n The mega-prison is packed with 12,000 bitter rivals from two of the most feared gangs MS-13 and Calle 18, born on the streets of\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n
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