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easily the least likely thing one would expect to see in an abandoned factory site...

no apologies I go there ever year and got goosebumps- if only could get in the place

There is no good EST and no matter what they claim today their is and can not ever be any "precision" with it. It is electricity and it flows randomly through the body there can be no control over it. It's just a slower and ultimately more evil form of the lobotomy. I say its more evil than a lobotomy because it does its damage and leaves the victim aware of what is gone.
The effect that is often assumed to be a sign it has worked is the medical shock afterwards as the body tries to heal, the memory is destroyed.
Do it frequently enough and the person cannot recall most short term interactions and may seem dumb or high to you. Daily EST is abuse, even then.

What many do not realize is that in places like this the doctors & staff were often evil scum not unlike Mengele who used this equipment to abuse patients or to destroy their memory of having been abused. I wonder if she wasn't being raped by the staffer that reported to the doctor the symptoms that were used to justify this over medication and EST? Oh Yea Doctors do what nurses and orderlies who have taken the time to win their trust, tell them to. After the trust is won they can do as they please I witnessed and was victim of this sort of betrayal of trust at a different place.

Doesn't take much imagination to envision someone being trapped under the heavy stuff...lying down...no way to move...

How do you come up with these titles that are just perfect to your photos?

Interesting evidence about fire department practice. I swear the people on this site have the most unique things to share...all because of Motts photos!

Halidol - Ugh.
Thorazine - Oy!
Lithium in addition to a medium high dosage - YIKES!!!
"EST (electroshock therapy) as a calming measure" - HOLY @#$%!
"Daily if necessary" - OMGwhatisthisIdon'tevern...

@Sad One - my prayers go out to you for the treatment you went through. May He gives daily strength to fight your personal demons.

@Jacob - the exact amount and time to be administered would be recorded elsewhere with the patient's records.

So this is the page that started the "soap dispenser" trope? Yay! I finally found it once and for all and ever!

Seriously...great site, great people, and great jokes. Long live opacity.

Mr. Motts, do you play in a metal band by chance? You've got the look.

Also all your pics are amazing and your site rocks.

Just as an aside, Sightglass is wrong: that Nike site was a Hercules site, not an Ajax, which means the missiles were armed with nuclear warheads instead of high explosives.

Based on the putty stuff on the other cells walls, they apparently let them put up inoffensive posters and stuff. Since this isn't a nudie I'd imagine it didn't violate the rules.

These actually aren't half bad. I saw a lot of nekkid lady graffiti on the seclusion cell walls but it was all the really amateurish, nasty type you might imagine. Mostly indecipherable gang tags though as best I recall.

Definitely medium security. Windows are barred but you've got more breathing room than a cell. I remember seeing a building with what appeared to be smaller, 4-man rooms with windowed doors that didn't have bars on the windows, so I'd guess those were for minimum security/good behavior inmates.

These were the solitary confinement cells in their own little building, aka "the hole", separate from the dorms. I think there were only a handful of them if I remember correctly. Since this was a minimum security/juvie facility I imagine you'd only get tossed in one of these cells if you were violent or smuggled contraband in or something.

While stationed in DC in the Army in '06, my unit did a terrorist response exercise at the former Lorton complex. Some people played casualties, DC police provided security, medical triage was done, etc.

As I remember, most of the buildings were multi-wing single story dormitories with 4-man rooms (this was a minimum security joint for the city of DC and I think it might have been a juvie lockup), but there was also a single prison-style building with maybe 10 single-occupant barred cells, presumably for the "hard cases" who wanted to make trouble.

The walls of these cells were covered in graffiti, often from floor to ceiling, with the usual combination of gang tags, naked women and people's street names (I remember seeing the "Hubcab" one Mott got a picture of), but there were a few really funny messages that gave us in-jokes we used for years.

"Them niggas from WL ain't no niggas them niggas is bitches." was the crowd favorite. I was told later WL stands for the Woodland slum in southeast DC. So for the next year on base, any time anybody wanted to talk smack about some other unit, the line was "Those guys from so-and-so ain't no guys, them guys is bitches."