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wow i can just imagine all the people that were here its kinda creepy to think about it
IM HERE TO CONFESS
Thu 01-21-2010
Wow! Is that a skylight or part of the roof missing?
TootUncommon
Thu 01-21-2010
Definitely Caged in ! What a horrible existence!
LucieLou
Thu 01-21-2010
Would not be a happy existance! Reminds me of a zoo with the people inside the cages.
Ferdy
Thu 01-21-2010
Imagine the stories this place could tell...
Kolfritz
Thu 01-21-2010
That's a skylight, although there are a few sizable holes in the roof elsewhere.
Motts
Fri 01-22-2010
Makes me think of a battery chicken farm. Utterly horrible, but a cracking shot!
Kez
Fri 01-22-2010
i thought all the snow this year would have made a bunch more skylights in the frail roof here.
oldgrumpymark
Fri 01-22-2010
This is the type of prison you see in the old movies...not the new fancy ones with the gyms and such. This was pretty hard time! These are awesome shots.
TootUncommon
Fri 01-22-2010
Yeah, a caged animal , thats a good description. Really it isn't a life....it is only exsisting. I guess that's what you get when you do evil crimes. I think I'd rather just be dead than be caged like some animal. Exsisting like that isn't worth it. I could say the mental hospitals might be better but than yet not much. (other places that Motts has taken pictures of) but really horrible things happend there too. They were caged as well just for different reasons. Interesting pictures Motts.
blue lamp
Sun 01-24-2010
Excellent shot! Reminds me of Alcatraz!
Katy
Sun 01-24-2010
Cooool, we have nothing like that here in Sweden.
MustaVeri
Mon 01-25-2010
nice use of black and white
KahunaTony
Mon 01-25-2010
Amazing pic. So grim and dark!
AidanNatalie
Sun 01-31-2010
where are you from kez,interesting dialect you used "cracking".lol
coco
Tue 02-02-2010
If there were institutions like this still. there would be alot less repeat offenders.
This really captures the mood.
Marc
Fri 02-05-2010
when i was 18 yrs old i served a year on a 5 year sentence at ohio state reformatory the tiers and cells looked identical to this photo except at the reformatory the tiers were 6 high this was back in the 70s i have since learned that ohio had the dubious honor of having the tallest free standing cellblock in the u.s. it was closed in the 80s and they now have ghost tours there
dragonflychainsaw
Wed 04-14-2010
Again, another amazing photo.
Tessa
Sun 09-26-2010

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