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Kind of like a state sponsored peepshow.

Scott

Tue 07-12-2005

sheesh, cant get a minute to yourself!!!

anna

Tue 07-12-2005

As ironic as this is going to seem, that was probably for security measures...you know, to make sure people were safe and not beating each other up in the showers?
Okay...maybe it isn't so ironic, but you know what I mean, eh?

Kassie

Tue 07-12-2005

Like Scott said, a state sponsored Peep show, I think I'd be less bothered by this picture if they had just had an aide standing at the end of the shower area to keep watch... somehow watching from those "windows" gives this a more sinister kind of voyer effect.....

silkster40z

Wed 07-13-2005

Now that I think about it, it seems like it would have been just easier to have an aide standing by. That way you got the entire room under surveillance, whereas the plexiglass windows just seems, I don't know...inefficient.

Valatiel

Thu 07-14-2005

Maybe the windows were to let light into the shower area? There aren't light fixtures above the showers.

crow_n_key

Sat 07-23-2005

That's an interesting thought, crow_n_key.

Motts

Mon 07-25-2005

Cuz they keep the light fixtures over the sinks, not the showers.

~Me

Mon 07-25-2005

Wawawawawawawawawa!!!!!!!!!!! 8`-) Oh, you are cruisin' for a bruisin' from Motts, you double-bad thing! 8`-)

Lynne

Mon 07-25-2005

Yeah, I am sure. it's all fun and games till someone drops the soap........ dispenser.

~Me

Mon 07-25-2005

Stop! Stop! 8`-) You're killin' me! 8`-)

ROFLMAO

THATS IT!
YOURE BOTH ON DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!

silkster40z

Tue 07-26-2005

I know - ~Me is bad, ain't she? ;-)

:)~

Ooops! I stuck my tongue out, now I have to have my mouth washed out with SOAP!

Where were those soap dispensers again?

~Me

Wed 07-27-2005

talking about privacy.

tanya

Sat 07-30-2005

"Friday, 07-22-05
By: crow_n_key:

Maybe the windows were to let light into the shower area? There aren't light fixtures above the showers."

I would have to agree with Cow...the windows appear to be opague/frosted.

Interesting!

Michele

Tue 08-02-2005

Maybe the windows service 3 fuctions- light, security and some privacy. The windows are only big enough to see the top half of that person. The wall would provide some protection from breezes.
No soap dispensers because each inmate has his/her own bath items that they keep in thier rooms.

Candi

Sat 08-20-2005

I gotta say, the windows are opaque, and only are show the top half. I would imagine that someone would be monitoring their shadows/silhouettes to make sure they are showering & not beating each other... ok, bad choice of words, but you know...

Sketch

Fri 12-16-2005

to make sure they are showering & not beating each other... ok, bad choice of words, but you know...

Sadly, having worked in a facility like this, it may not be such a bad choice of words at all. That is probably exactly why they would be monitoring the showers.

wheres the soap?

FWIW, the St. Louis county juvenile detention facility (built, I think, in the 1980s) has this exact setup for the "residents'" showers, plexiglass and all.

exjuvy

Sat 07-08-2006

Hey!, where's the "no soap dispensers?" guy??? that was so funny!!!

KEMPKES

Fri 02-29-2008

you have no idea of the way the showers were used.... mostly for punishment....ughhhhh.... I hate that I ever worked there..... I take some comfort in the little love I could sneak to one of these poor forsakens when no one was looking... to treat them with love and dignity was a death sentance

Can't disclose

Fri 04-18-2008

If you did not work to stop the punitive behavior you say you observed, then you were certainly never guilty of treating anyone with love or dignity.

Lynne

Sat 04-19-2008

on the other side of that shower was a room the the clients got undressed and dressed there was no privacy.

anne

Sat 01-30-2010

Is anyone else buying this "Can't disclose" person's comments? Each picture I've looked at with a comment by whoever this person is, seems a little fake, sorry.

shadyjenkins

Tue 02-16-2010

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