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The wall of bars is intact! Nice.

Absolutely awesome shot, Motts.
Jenn [Sunshine]
Fri 05-16-2008
So close to freedom. The bars on one side and the windows on the other. Kind of cruel don't you think?
Canada
Fri 05-16-2008
Gorgeous lighting and perspective there! I vouch wallpaper!
Mel
Fri 05-16-2008
Those bars are what block your freedom, this is what hell would be like I think
jackieb
Sat 05-17-2008
ya canada and the windows open, lol
nick
Mon 05-19-2008
I was just about to comment on the previous pic that I'd love to see a shot with the second set of bars still in place!

This is so chillingly opressive. I can't imagine being in a cage, behind MORE bars, so far from the window... let alone so far from freedom!
Seventh
Mon 05-19-2008
Was there a metal cup around. You know, to clank on the bars with? That would annoy the hell out everyone except the person doing it:)
Wormfood
Tue 05-20-2008
Just sit back and visualize what it looked like in it's heyday...inmates clustered in the cells on one side...guards on the other side...it's chiiling when you think about it.
FDNYMedic
Tue 05-20-2008
i wonder why the bars were cut in some placed but not this one...
Stacy
Tue 05-20-2008
Those who commit criminal acts are also "chilling"!
Amazed
Wed 05-21-2008
This Is my Favorite Shot Motts. Keep up the Wonderful Gallery & Site.
Deb
Thu 06-05-2008
is it common that the upper floors are always more intact? (sorry if that is a stupid question)
terie5
Sun 06-08-2008
I guess that means for those of us that are free should enjoy that freedom much more. But on the other side...like someone said...if you did the crime you pay with time....well sort of something like that anyway....Really, that would be horrible to be locked away like some animal. I think it would be better off to be dead in someways....cause you have no freedom anymore. How horrible. Appreciate what you have. Life is short enough for us all really.....
blue lamp
Sun 08-10-2008
did they just leave the windows open?
Jade Jean
Wed 09-10-2008
this is really beautiful i live across the street from this i can look out my bedroom window and look at the jail all the history in those walls the history of the town i was born in just so wounderful and i just want to learn so much about it
Kayla
Sat 01-24-2009
this is right by my house.. ive been inside a few times. never during the day though..... a friend of mine is going to school for photog and would love to get inside but isnt sure the right way to go about it
jamie
Fri 10-23-2009
Fascinating. Confinement to not only your cell, but the partitioned hallway as well. That's almost more cruel than it needs to be! At least they let the fresh air in by way of the windows...York is quite humid in the summertime.
Mary Rose
Sun 01-31-2010
The windows on the north side looked out over the recreation yard and the inmates were able to roam freely between the cells and the floor to ceiling bars.
Monkey Head
Thu 02-10-2011

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