Walk the Same Halls as Infamous Inmates

*Sonny Liston: Learned to box at MSP and went on to become Heavyweight Champion *James Earl Ray: Escaped from MSP before assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr.

100 Years Older than Alcatraz

*Received its first inmate in 1836; the same year, month and day that the Battle of the Alamo was fought *Oldest continually operating prison west of the Mississippi River *Served Missouri for 168 years; from 1836-2004

Home of the Gas Chamber

*40 inmates put to death in the gas chamber between 1937-1989 *Bonnie Heady only woman to be executed in the gas chamber in a double execution alongside Carl Hall for the Greenlease killing *Last execution at MSP carried out in 1989. Tiny Mercer put to death in Gas Chamber by lethal injection Book Your Tour of the Missouri State Penitentiary