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Just a survival note: you don't sleep with your head towards the bars. If the toilet bothers you make a cover with newspaper and tape or whatever is available.

The stainless steel combo is a new addition. Sometime after 1983. And the radiators on the walls were hot enough to grill cheese, keep coffee warm and melt faces. If you desired privacy you put up a sheet.

It's the door to the rec yard and walkway

And Michael how is it that you remember the 1983 riot and the count of officers injured? One of the officers injured in that incident was named Michael and he left soon after. If by some off chance that was you I offer my belated apologies. It wasn't personal.

Not a lot of toothbrushes sharpened here. Real steel and very inventive prisoners... MacGyver's. Every unsecured piece of steel, hard plastic or wood that had potential was utilized. LMSF cell blocks were small. Perhaps 25 cells per tier, single cell, 2 tiers per side.

No going to the the outside world here. This was the entrance to the Hill. Elle oh Elle hopefully your uncle did not stay here long because LMSF was mind numbing.

Kaibil and Bill Many are right on point. This gate actually leads to the Hill or Medium Security facility. This was the Hole.

This was the walkway to the chow hall that also doubled as the visiting hall and movie theater. As intriguing as it looks it presented a gaunlet of blind spots from which an attacker could pounce.

In the early 80's the DC DOC obtained file cabinets from the State Department that were filled with top secret documents. They sat on the floor of the Butler Bldg. for at least months before govt. agents locked down the facility in an effort to recover the documents.

There was actually a temporary structure herer called the Butler Bldg. which housed the school, religious worship rooms and the law library. The yard was on the other side of the Butler Bldg. behind the general population dorms before it all became a lock down facility.

There were three gates to the sally port to enter the maximum security facility which could only be opened one at a time and they were controlled from the guard tower that overlooked the facility from the southeast corner.

Everyone has their own valid point. However, Pennhurst is now privately owned and for the most part inaccessible. Skillman, Byberry, Haverford, and Marlboro are completely wiped out. Everything that people didn't save is now lost in the dirt that was once our playground. So who's right? Who cares. The real Mustang Sally died on 5 April 16, dead from an overdose of diet pills. I visit the abandonments still, but I think part of me died ,too. The joy just isn't the same anymore. See you in the ruins, PHANTOM!

This looks like a heat exchanger of a water-tube or bent tube boiler. Tube Boilers are "called" by what is inside the tubes.
Being that this is a large power-plant it could also be a Superheater, which raised the heat content of some of the steam exiting the main boiler.
It could also be an economizer which would warm the returning steam from the building before it entered the boiler. All depends on where it is positioned in the flow of water/steam and boiler flame/exhaust.

Hi Mott! We are very interested in your photography and have a couple questions for you in regards to this shoot. If you could please get in touch with us by email that would be fabulous. deepexposurephotography@yahoo.com

-Addison

It's a shame but soon Detroit is going to be nothing more than prairie land. By the time they finish demolishing all the abandoned buildings, and with many people fleeing like rats off a sinking ship, what else is left? It's unfortunate that any American city has to go through this.