Prison tours now available at this former penitentiary in the US


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Robert Blake (left) as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock in a scene from the 1967 movie adaptation of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. — Handout

The shuttered prison in Kansas, the United States where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood were executed is now a tourist attraction.

From now, former wardens and corrections officers will lead two-hour tours of the stone-walled building in Lansing, Kansas that first began housing inmates in the 1860s, The Kansas City Star reported.

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