860 Comments for Old Essex County Jail

As to the "mini bar rum bottle"- the rubber-covered top is evidence that it is indeed medication, not rum. It is in a FDA approved container for medications approved for injection. That would cost a pretty penny...

There is a bottle cap made of metal in the lower left corner of the shot, and it likely came from a regular sized alcoholic beverage.

Motts, was this in a cell where there were squatters? The soda bottle looks fairly new, and there is a likely reason these people live in a jail cell. Too bad the state would throw them in an active prison instead of rehabilitating them and getting them back on their feet, or we could get them help.

People in those cages, but fines if you do the same to chickens or pigs. Someone call PETA to protect the people's rights.

i really hope these people get help really soon cause this place is really bad looking!

Well my guess was playdough, but then I'm a no one, not an any one.

it's heroin god have any one guest that yet

reminds me of heaven and hell, the darkness and the light, altho here the roles of heaven and hell seem to have been reversed, dark over light. wonderful picture

those vials look very crack-ish

Beautiful shot.
Made me think of the song by Concorde Dawn "Morning Light"
"Please don't cry, in the morning light"

They are probably supported internally. Being a prison, it would have to be sturdy

you say homeless people live in there, self explanitory

that looks like the train entrance of silent hill

is this jail in salem by any chance? because if it is i was there but i couldn't manage a way in there yet....

peace easy - xJIMx

this is stunning, nicely done =)

"me" wrote: "i know the people are bad and everything, but they don`t deserve something like that!"

Even beyond the issue of whether they deserve those conditions or not is the more important issue of what those conditions do to them. Guillermo expresses a commonly held opinion about what kind of conditions convicted criminals "should" have [I'm interpreting that as meaning they deserve poor conditions, I apologise if I'm wrong]. The problem is that when you house people in shitty circumstances, they often end up coming out worse than when they went in.

It doesn't help the guards either; poor conditions are stressful to them too. Dirt, noise and squalour generally make people more stressed, and in a prison, this often leads to increased violence. So not only are harsh conditions not conducive to rehabilitation, they also undermine prison security and the safety of the staff and inmates. What often looks like coddling of prisoners is actually necessary to help maintain order and to help prisoners function halfway normally when they get out--which they nearly always do. [How well do you think you'd cope outside if you hadn't seen TV in ten years?]

[gets off the prison reform soapbox]