The Eye Bank

1946. Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville.

The above stills are from news footage shot in 1946, ten years after Richard Loeb's death. The Eye Bank was a voluntary program run through the prison in which prisoners signed contracts donating their eyes upon their death to an eye bank, granting they died in prison. Leopold did not die in prison, but he donated his body to science and his eyes were successfully donated after his death. One went to a woman, the other to a man.