860 Comments for Old Essex County Jail

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh My! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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YES! Art lives!
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the stuff of nightmares
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Use your imagination...can you picture a person trapped by that vine?
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Live free or die....this would be a wonderful promotional shot to show teenagers to keep them on the straight and narrow. Also would work on people with a penchant for criminal activity.
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This is just a wrong as the cells....
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people actually live here.....shows you what state our country is in....
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there's always a chair.....somewhere
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This one has to be my favorites.
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Oh yuck! What a nightmare to get stabbed with a hypodermic needle...Just one thing that scares me about exploring.
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imagine that door slamming behind you
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maybe these people living here spent time here when it was opened (only home they feel comfortable in) scary thought but stranger things have happened.
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agree with all the comments. excellent photo(my son doesnt agree says it reminds him too much of the county lockup he spent 3 months in, minus the dirt and debris of course )
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ironically the reason most people go to jail today is in plain sight in an abandoned one makes you wonder how the minds of some people work .lol
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I've seen stuff about this place on TV.....is THIS the place that was where the phrase "Up the river" was coined, or was that somewhere else?