The Wyoming Frontier Prison will offer its annual Haunted Halloween tours beginning tomorrow. This year's scene at the prison-turned-museum in Rawlins is inspired by a 1955 riot there. Eighty inmates, armed with kitchen knives, took three guards hostage. Special events coordinator Sarah Trapp told the Rawlins Daily Times that staffers and volunteers are going to have "creative freedom" with the theme. The prison known as "Old Pen" opened in 1901 and was Wyoming's first penitentiary. It closed in 1981 and is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
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