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The Man Who Hannibal Lecter's Glass Cell Was Designed For - Neatorama

In The Silence of the Lambs, the murderous cannibal Hannibal Lecter was confined to a cell in the basement of a mental asylum because he was so dangerous. It was made of bulletproof glass instead of bars, because he had managed to kill someone through bars already. It was eerie to see, but a similar cell had already been constructed years earlier for a real-life killer named Robert Maudsley. Maudsley's cell was custom-built for him at Britain's Wakefield prison in 1983. The glass was so two guar