1,236 Comments for York Street Jail

Use to work there has co

This isn't "isolation"... If I remember correctly, this was the "West Block" which was supposed to house all "pre-trial" inmates

Some of you are right about the jail but most are wrong. I was there everyday of the demolition and took over 350 photos as I walked every foot of the place. I have a cell door and the guard shack door (the only one of its kind used there) that I got during demo. I have a handle used to pull to lock the cell doors of one row simultaneously. Heavy brass. I have several bricks which contain the name of the brick company that cast it. Went into the underground areas before they became buried
Anyway an experience I will never forget. A great memory

Guard with Loaded gun.

They should have burned that fuckin place to the ground...along with every sadistic fuck that worked there....where ever u r dabney
I hope your family dies slowly of aids...

Heh, yeah that was my friend Nick. He may have been a left-over prisoner though, who knows...

I do see 'danger'. Didn't see it until reading your post and then looking closely...but i see it now.

Who is that coming down the sidewalk near the building....hope he was with you, Motts, and not a left-over prisoner, lol

Those aren't lights....they're buzzing soap dispensers. Sorry Motts, had to say that. :-)

Looks like you are correct, Sandy. The on /off valves and temp control valves are out of the frame and surely were controlled by a guard or "trusty" inmate. Not a stupid observation or question at all.

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Spent about a month and half in what you call "caged off area" assigned to a mattress on floor. Never saw a cell block or yard. There were about 40 mattresses on floor with about 2 feet square around each. Book cart would come in, that was about it. It was actually not that bad, most people were in for a very short period, a few days to a week then assigned to cell or released on bond or PR. I had trouble being bound over to superior court and was eventually released.

This was actually the intake, the first place that a newly arriving prisoner saw. (1976) There were visits here as well. There was an echo effect and a sort ever present breeze from door traffic.

I actually spent November and parts of December 1976 in pretrial confinement here. It was so over crowded that those in pretrial were in a big holding area assigned to a mattress on the floor in one of the halls. I still remember this view. Thanks!!