Funnest of Facts

John Coffee built the jail in Dundalk in 1853.

Unfortunately he went bankrupt while doing so and became the first inmate in his own prison.

Prison industrial irony that would put Corrections Corporation of America and O. Henry to shame.

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About Christopher Warman

Christopher Warman is a writer from Baltimore, MD. He received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Welter, the UB's nationally circulated literary journal, for its 2011 and Fall 2014 editions. His works have been published in Welter and the online humorist journal Hobo Pancakes. His plays have been produced through Spotlight UB's Emerging Voices Project and the John Hewitt International Summer School. His book, The Universal Machine: The Lineage, Life, and Legacy of Amos Östberg—The First Great Computer Scientist of the Internet Age, is available at longcommentpubs.com.
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