According to wikipedia – in the first season of prison break, most of the filming was actually done in a de-comissioned prison called Joliet Prison in Chicago.
Lincolns cell was the same cell they used to house a guy called John Wayne Gacy who was labled the “Killer Clown” after raping and murdering 33 young boys and men and dressing up as a clown called “Pogo”
Many of the film crew refused to go in his cell – as they thought it was haunted!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Break
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
I bet you didnt know that, did you!