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Cell

Frida

"me" wrote: "i know the people are bad and everything, but they don`t deserve something like that!"

Even beyond the issue of whether they deserve those conditions or not is the more important issue of what those conditions do to them. Guillermo expresses a commonly held opinion about what kind of conditions convicted criminals "should" have [I'm interpreting that as meaning they deserve poor conditions, I apologise if I'm wrong]. The problem is that when you house people in shitty circumstances, they often end up coming out worse than when they went in.

It doesn't help the guards either; poor conditions are stressful to them too. Dirt, noise and squalour generally make people more stressed, and in a prison, this often leads to increased violence. So not only are harsh conditions not conducive to rehabilitation, they also undermine prison security and the safety of the staff and inmates. What often looks like coddling of prisoners is actually necessary to help maintain order and to help prisoners function halfway normally when they get out--which they nearly always do. [How well do you think you'd cope outside if you hadn't seen TV in ten years?]

[gets off the prison reform soapbox]

Location: Old Essex County Jail  Gallery: Solitude

Plant

Frida

It looks like it's looking out of the window...

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Dawn of a New Day

Strange Bathroom

Frida

That's what you get when you hire the building crew from the Winchester Mansion...

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

Equipment

Frida

Does a toilet with armrests count as a chair for lone chair shots?

Location: Roseville State School  Gallery: Open Sores

Ferns

Frida

Somebody got the MiracleGro and the floor wax mixed up again.

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Endless Halls

Wide

Frida

I've looked at that picture 4 times, and it STILL looks like it's throwing up a two-handed devil-horns sign.

Location: Staten Island Boat Graveyard  Gallery: Wrecks