Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
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Historic prison where James Earl Ray escaped in 1977
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentChuckStuff You Should Know · The Barkley Marathons · 13:53 · Jan 2025
…Exactly. And they needed somewhere to put those prisoners. So our workers, I guess, slash prisoners. So they built a new prison. It is called Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary. And in the 1930s, a lot of that land eventually became that great conservation area that we were talking about, those 24000 acres. And the New Deal era Civilian Conservation Corps b…
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