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\nIn the 1880s, the Squirrel Cage Jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was considered a revolutionary concept in housing inmates.\xa0 They claimed the new concept allowed for "maximum security with minimum jailer attention."
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\nIt was a "19th-century marvel,\u201d constructed so that only one jailor could watch an entire prison full of prisoners. The cells were all positioned on a central carousel that, when a hand crank was turned, would rotate the cells so that only one could be entered at a time. However, it didn\u2019t take long to realize this concept didn\u2019t work as they thought it would. While the jailer could attend to the one cell \u2013 the others were trapped. Of the 18 prisons built, most were closed within a couple of years after opening \u2013 however \u2013 the Squirrel Cage Jail remained in operation until 1969.
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\nBut it seems some of those who were once there are still there. Reports of hauntings date back to the 1950s when a jailor refused to sleep in his quarters because he believed it to be haunted. In this episode, we talk about the hauntings of the Squirrel Cage Jail with Kat Slaughter, Director of the Squirrel Cage Jail and RailsWest Railroad Museum. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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\nFor more information on the museums as well as tours and paranormal investigations, visit their website thehistoricalsociety.org
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