Instructor: Tobin Buhk
Also available via Zoom Hybrid
Visit some of Michigan's creepiest locations in this photographic expedition to historic prisons and county jails. Take a trip back in time and venture inside the old Detroit House of Corrections, the State Penitentiary at Jackson and several county jails. Eavesdrop on inmates working off the "hard labor" portion of their sentences in the prison shops, enter a cellblock, and learn about 19th century prison life. Meet the wardens, turnkeys, keepers, sheriffs and their most infamous residents.
About the Presenter: Tobin T. Buhk is a freelance author specializing in historic true crime. To research his first book, "Cause of Death," he volunteered in a county morgue. His subsequent true-crime publications include "Skeletons in the Closet," "True Crime in the Civil War," and "Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids." Mr. Buhk lectures frequently on historic crime and provides several presentation options.
