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A mural amidst debris and abandoned buildings at the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. The Old Atlanta Prison Farm is an abandoned, city-owned prison complex in southwest DeKalb County in the U.S. state of Georgia. From approximately 1920 to 1990, the farm was worked by prisoners to produce food for the region's prison system.
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The old Essex County Jail is located in the University Heights section of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The jail is Essex County's oldest public building and a national landmark of value for its architectural and social history.
Lincoln Heights Jail is a former jail building complex in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, located adjacent to the Los Angeles River and situated about 0.7 miles (1.1 km) southwest of the Lincoln/Cypress station. [1] The original building built in the late 1920s is noted for its Art Deco style. [2]
Bodmin Jail was previously dubbed one of Britain’s most haunted places, but now it’s been remade into a four-star hotel. Like the urban legend that prisoner Selina Wadge, who was convicted of ...
Twenty-One Magazine, also known as the Old Charleston Jail, is a structure of historical and architectural significance in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Operational between 1802 and 1939, the jail held many notable figures, among them Denmark Vesey , Union officers and Colored Troops during the American Civil War, and high-seas ...
The solitary confinement system eventually collapsed due to overcrowding problems. By 1913, Eastern State officially abandoned the solitary system and operated as a congregate prison until it closed in 1970. Eastern State was briefly used to house city inmates in 1971 after a riot at Holmesburg Prison. Al Capone's cell The remains of the barber ...
A woman who abandoned a dog and 35 puppies in a dilapidated caravan has avoided jail. Labradors, dachshunds and French bulldogs were found living in a "state of squalor" on an industrial estate in ...