 Prison officials recorded every detail of their lives - their medical treatments, their visitors, their letters to and from the outside world

The main prison building was designed by the St. Louis, Missouri architect firm of Eames and Young, which also designed the main building at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth.It encompassed and had a capacity of 1200 inmates.The facility was subsequently renamed the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta when US government created the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1930.