Chapel
Originally the bakery, this area was last used as a chapel, classroom and meeting room. Inmates received "good time" (time off their sentences) for regularly attending church services and other self-help programs.
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The gun port on the wall is connected to the surveillance tunnel, which could be entered from the trap door in Tower 7. | |
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During the 1959 Riot, the press was brought into the surveillance tunnel where they talked to the rioting inmates through the gun ports. |