860 Comments for Old Essex County Jail

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Is that a sink on the back wall or a toilet? (or both?)
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*This is the rear gate.
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Nice Gallery guys. I have a bunch of pictures and also some videos of this place, if anyone is interested. Later.
OZ
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*The catwalks are made of 3 inch thick panes of glass. Believe it or not, they are still pretty strong. The reason that they are glass, and not steel, is to let the most light into the cells as possible. Remember when this jail was built, there were no electric lights (or indoor plumbing - toilets). The only light that was available was the light that came in thru the front of the cell. That is why these old jails have such huge barred windows. The rest of the facility was lit with gas lanterns.
OZ
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I have been to this jail many, many times. It is one of the most dangerous places that I have ever "explored". Good place to get arrested too. HEAVILY PATROLED.
*This cage is the "Officers Bullpen". It is where the Correction Officers would congregate.
OZ
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I wondered where you have been keeping yourself Mama
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HURRAH x INFINITY FOR MOTTS!!!

You rock!

These doors (?) look SO intimidating for some reason lol.

Nice gallery!! I am sooooo happy to have found this place! I echo what everyone has said over the past months...

This is a place I go to laugh, cry, and be made to think. I get to see things I never would have seen, go to places I can't go to in real life, and I get to look at things I might know about in another light...and through other people's eyes. :)

For this, I am forever grateful!
Mr. Motts, you ARE my hero and who I look up to in a way. :)
~LG
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Whoa. My house payment is $700....and my light bill is typically about $130 per month, and that is with 7 people living here. Thank goodness the electricity here isn't really used much during the day since everyone except hubby, the baby, and myself is at school. I stay upstairs on the laptop and tv and one light, and hubby is downstairs on the computer with just that light on once the baby goes down for a nap (or the "let's wreck my room time") during the day. Weekends, we try to keep the lights off if we aren't in the room, but with everyone here, it is harder to do. Now our GAS bill...that is another subject altogether lol. (It is close to half of this amount every month...)

That seems really cheap now, but in 1978 (I was 7 so I didn't have bills lol) that was probably a LOT of money.

~LG
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Talk about depressing, but think of the alternative: living on the cold and harsh streets. :( No food, no shelter...

I just want to reach out and hug all these poor people. :(
~LG
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Holy...(insert choice word here that rhymes with twit)...the glass flooring makes sense, but holy cripes I wouldn't want to walk on them now lol.

I am gonna have nightmares now.

~LG
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Um escape route if you were 2 feet high and thin as a twig lol. :D

OMG I cried when Brooksie hanged himself. :( He was SO institutionalized that he couldn't handle the "outside" world. I bet that has happened to the inmates here too. :(

It irks me when someone says he "hung" himself. NO!! When you are talking about a person, it is hanged...when you are talking about a picture, it is hung lol.

OK...grammar lesson over. :D

I Love this picture!

~LG
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Ya know what that title reminds me of...there are a bunch of videos on YouTube called Salad FIngers, and he is obsessed with Rust. They are SOOOOO creeeepy! In the one episode, he wants rusty spoons (o.O) and in another, he is put in a rusty box in the forest...

Sorry, that title reminded me of that. :D

My daughter said that these pictures are creepy, and I agree.

~LG
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Whoa...thanks Shay for that...that makes sense. I watch "Lock-Up" on MSNBC every weekend, and I have seen isolation cells of all sorts, but NOTHING like this! Even the "cages" some of the modern prisons use for outdoor rec time to keep the inmates separated are NOTHING like this. This is just disturbing.

~LG
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Dang that ceiling looks like it has stalagmites (or the other one..,I can never remember which is which) ...I would wear a helmet and armor going in here lmao!

~LG
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I can SO imagine someone sitting on this perch, looking out the window at the stark, naked trees...smoking crack (or a joint, or meth, or whatever) and mourning for a life that they'd had or a life they'd WISHED they'd had. :(

Okay. Now I made myself depressed.

~LG