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Looks like a good place to get shanked.

Feels suffocating.

Ah more claustrophobia! I think I am gonna go outside and breathe after I finish here, even with temperatures hovering somewhere near 30 F or so. :D (That is warm compared to what we had a few days ago!!)

I would HATE to be walking up those steps and have someone suddenly decide that he has a problem with me! There is hardly room to move, much less get away. Sheesh.

Larry D - Funny!

Stairwell to loneliness

The light coming in is actually kind of nice.

Larry D

Lol, I laughed when I saw that :D

LOL@Larry D

Wow. You could call this "Vertigo".

Ditto@Larry. Good one! I'm sure my meth lab neighbors know that stairway well! *stab, stomp*

OK, I have to admit I must be at least partly blind. I just realized these stairs were going UP, not down..... ;-0

Um...don't steps go up AND down lol.

..lol...yes...(I should be embarrassed..but strangely, i'm not...haha.) I just meant the first time I looked at the picture, I saw it as looking DOWN the stairwell from the top. Optical illusion, until you look at the wear patterns. Otherwise, kinda Escher-looking :-).

OOOh I gotchya lol! I was just yanking your chain anyhow. :)

I can actually see what you mean, now that I took another look. It is an optical illusion isn't it? :)

Very "Escheristic" (a word?).. I agree.. great perspective shot Motts.

This was the stairs at the rear of each cell block. Inmates who were housed on the second (upper tier) had to file up these stairs upon returning from the chow hall or the recreation yard which was just outside the cell house. At the top of those stairs was a small room with a TV. I watched a Sugar ray Leonard fight on tv with inmates there one saturday afternoon in 1975. Thay were all cheering for their hometown hero. That room was a bit unnerving, as you were there alone, and nobody from the front of the cell block could see you back there with the inmates. We didn't have cameras. At least one officer stayed secured up front in the cell house, whenever the other two were inside with inmates doing a count or just patroling the cell block.

Are the heavy set inmates kept on the lower level? O.o