1,236 Comments for York Street Jail

It's quite possible that the ventilation systems remained on even after the prison was shut down, this would explain why the facility looks so good.

Interesting tension braces and turnbuckles on the ceiling. What is so heavy above this room?

"They need to open it up as a tourist attraction."

Don't know how many people would book a tour of a Jail, though. They're generally not someplace people would want to take the 'wife and kids.' Well .. unless it's a famous Prison. That's different. Look at Alcatraz ... but it's infamous due to film.

Plastic trays in CA, too. Like the ones you get in most school lunchrooms with the little 'sections' that nothing fits in.

"Good Idea Give the convicts scalding water..."

When I served my time at the County Spa - 43 days for traffic ... long story, not wreckless or DUI, though - they had an "InstaHot" water spigot in the sink for our use. It was a lot safer than giving us a microwave and it worked well enough for making Top Ramen (NEVER can eat that stuff again), instant coffee (gag) and Hot Chocolate. It also worked really well to soften up Jolly Rancher candies to make roses out of them ... hey, when you're locked up you get bored. Call it "Arts & Crafts." I can also take a Playtex Tampon, coloured pencils and a stencil to a white sheet of paper and make it look like airbrush. Ahh ... life ... it teaches us so much useless stuff.

P.S. Nice lighting fixture.

it is a very narrow door. However, in some of the very old jails. Department of Corrections didn't have humane guidlines as to how big a cell must be.
Often, all they contained was a cot and barely room to walk past it and out the cell door.

I don't know about anyone else, but doesn't this look like a really narrow doorway?

Bill - bravo! 8`-)

how could it be there and new without anyone stilling it?

A few years too late, "the cup's" plant friends show up to bust him loose. Only to find he hung himself with his buddy "toast"...

The toast was obviously institutionalized and couldn't handle being set free so it talked its friend 'the cup" into a double suicide.

They are a holdover from the days of horse drawn waggons. Brand new fire houses still have them, although they really don't serve any purpose anymore. "200 years of tradition unimpeded by progress"

They look like ash trays attached to the walls.

ok that's too cool.

I wonder how many current NBA stars got their start here.