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| Graterford prison superintendent offers rare view inside prison |
| By montgomerynews.com- Meghan Ross |
| Published: 10/28/2014 |
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Skippack Township hosts quaint shops, a community pool, a branch of the bucolic Perkiomen Trail and also about 4,000 convicted criminals. At night, the lights of Graterford prison illuminate the sky like a huge sports stadium. But instead, a 34-foot wall, constructed by former inmates of Eastern State Penitentiary in the 1920s, encloses the state’s largest maximum security population of prisoners. In charge of all of these men is Michael Wenerowicz, the superintendent. One rainy October morning, Wenerowicz took a turn off Route 73 and drove past the construction site for Phoenix — the $400 million replacement prison for Graterford — toward the looming prison walls and his administration building. Read More. |
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