2 Comments Posted by Seer4u2axe

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Oh, no, the doors like that were to stop BITERS, gougers etc. It was a place with extremely ill people. I was an "inmate" there at age 17. I thought it would be easier to go to a mental hospital than prison, well rather a reformatory in Cheshire CT in those years. I was VERY wrong. Some of the people there were there 30-40 yrs. at THAT time!!
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I was a year long resident of Salmon Building in 1967 - 68 and you can bet it was a nightmare...