727 Comments for Lorton Reformatory

I'd imagine the conversation to be rather one sided. ;)

Yikes. Cramped indeed.

i bet the guys listening in on the phones were laughing thier heads off every time one of them asked their lawyers to get them bail.

I was gonna say this before, but I didn't. Who the HELL would buy a house/property near a functional PRISON? I don't care if its minimum security or not.. Listen, if it was just the abandoned structure I could see that.. but it isnt. They must have plans to demo both? or the property/housing market is incredibly cheap?

Wow that's narrow. Great shot.

Wow. And he could spell too.

i bet they opened the windows!

Is this "America's - you (with the r missing) the no black state - Va" for Virginia and with is missing between the you and the "the". As Rachel says, are those witchcraft symbols, or perhaps gang symbols, or clan symbols??

Creepy and beautiful. I love it.

alarm button... freak out the people in the new housing devlopment

Imagine shuffling single file down this hallway...

At least it gives some privacy if the person is on the toilet. Perhaps these were in cells where inmates were allowed not to be in full view 24/7.

I'm surprised the inmates were allowed to write on the walls.

That's great, A D Nilsen, made me laugh :). Not a lot of room in the cell, encourages a person to think about what they did and that they should not have done whatever it was they did.

That's your combination sink-o-let (sink and toilet in one). In stainless steel. I wonder if that dates back to when the prison was built, or were installed later? I think Motts said the prison was built in 1901? Maybe then, they used china toilets or maybe outhouses?