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24 paź 2013 · The iron gag, in which an inmate's hands were tied behind the back and strapped to an iron collar in the mouth, so that any movement caused the tongue to tear and bleed profusely.
[graphic] : The iron gag of its natural size locked upon Mathias Maccumsey, a convict from Lancaster County sentenced to the cells for manslaughter, who dies with it in his mouth, in the Eastern State Penitentiary , of Pennsylvania, June 1833.
The black masks were thrown out in 1903, and by then the iron gags were long gone. In the 20th century, Eastern State Penitentiary was just an old, crowded prison. Like other prisons, it had its share of brutality, riots, hunger strikes, escapes, suicides, and scandals.
23 mar 2020 · An iron gag would be secured to an inmate’s mouth, ripping the tongue and mouth while their hands were tied behind their back. On the morning of June 27, 1933, 44 year old Mathias Maccumsey was tortured with the iron gag for talking.
The “iron gag” involved tying an inmate’s hands behind the back, with a chain trapped to an iron collar in the mouth, which caused the tongue to tear and bleed. Under Block #14, an underground cell was dug that was called the “Hole.”
In the 142 years of Eastern State Penitentiary's history as a prison, untold numbers of inmates would be immured in silence, cut off completely from the rest of humanity and tortured into...
