860 Comments for Old Essex County Jail

A slightly different touch.

They meant business.

can you imagine........

eh, that place took lives...


Harsh.


At Eastern Penn.(Phila.)many years ago, inmates started using the poop pipe as a sounding tube to tap out messages in code.
The solution:just let the soil pipe remain flooded and only flush it out once a week or so.

eh, that place saved lives...

that is a robot giving you the bird

sort of in the middle there

In the 1970's the government came up with an amazing plan wherein they'd liberate and vacate the sick institutions and mainstream the occupants into society.They would follow-up with half-way houses,monoriting,meds,and council.
Great plan.
Only for some unknown reason the gov didn't follow-up.
Well that was a while ago,and we have new generations of homeless.And things have gotten harder.
New auto used to cost $2000.You could grocery shop for a family of 7 with $25.
Sure,we (some of us)are paid more,but it takes more.There was a time when "mortgage"was a dirty word.Now rent is as much or more than a mortgage,but its' harder to qualify for a mortgage.
A family burned-out of an apartment.Can't get up the one month security deposit,the escrow,one month rent advance or cost of moving van.
A doctor hit with malpractice suits-right or wrong-can't maintain his/her level of living.
Someone with medical expense living one paycheck from the street experiences an emergency.
Car repairs.Damn car repairs.
People are insensitive to these people.

And this cell looks downright cozy.

Interesting bars

Could you imagine YOU being the one in that cell.

boy, Time wasn't kind to that place.

oooops

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getting better

(Eastern State- Fairmount ave between 21st & 22nd north Philly)

into the depths...........