the first warden samuel wood wanted a butler. so he took a prisoner out of isolation. william hamilton becomes his personal servant. he was the first person to escape. if everything happened according to plan, it would be an incredibly strict prison. but in actuality, it was impossible to maintain. let's take a look inside one of the cells just up the way here. so, these two cells are open. take a step inside. watch your head here. so, you can hear out echo-y it is in here. part of that again, early on was the silence. any noise was -- any noise would be punished. so the entire place was whisper quiet. the officers were told to put socks on over there boots. -- their boots. if you were in your backyard your neighbors were not. they did not want inmates shouting over the walls. i should mention, what we see in the cell today, this became in the 1930's, one of the maximum-security units. so the bed frame is bolted to the ground. the toilets -- this is a modern toilet encased in concrete. so no one could smash it and have a shard as a weapon. and the axis to the backyards