Ispent a decade at the Michigan City Prison as an adjunct instructor for Purdue University, and then, in a twist of fate, was cast in a small speaking part role as a reporter in the 2009 Universal Pictures film “Public Enemies” starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, shown in the opening film scenes breaking his gang out of the Michigan City Prison in 1933.

However, it wasn’t the real Michigan City Prison as the co-starring landscape in the completed film.

Instead, director Michael Mann opted to use the Old Joliet Prison as a scenery substitute to film the Michigan City Prison breakout recreation.

Old Joliet Prison has a far more famous star association with Hollywood on location shoots.

Most famously, it has earned the forever pop culture reference to a fictional inmate: “Joliet” Jake

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