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Safety Chair

Safety Chair

An orange safety chair sits in a walkway that is locked at both ends. These plastic chairs and couches were rounded so patients wouldn't hurt themselves, and were easy to clean.
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At the county hospital they still had these safety chairs, they were purple though. They ditched them when the remade the emergency room and had camera's in the psych rooms.
Mollie
Wed 08-24-2005
Poor chair probably went crazy trying to escape the locked hallway! Any idea why these doors were locked? Obviously you could get to both doors, so they weren't really keeping you out of anything...
Sketch
Fri 12-23-2005
...and easy to stack!
ree
Wed 03-07-2007
this looks to be one of the better hallways
Ethan
Thu 03-22-2007
we used to have a system here in England in our big old mental hospitals, whereby potentially dangerous inmates were put in promenade rooms like this for excercise. They'd be located in the middle, with a nurse or orderly at each end. That way they could be kept a watch over, whilst allowing the staff time to get out and lock the door behind them if the patient suddenly took a run at them. Maybe that's why the chair in this picture is in the middle of the corridor??
Owen
Fri 01-04-2008
Those chairs where also had a matching pedistool table that were full with sand so the clients couldnt pick them up and hit you with them-my dad worked there!
Brittany
Mon 12-13-2010

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