7 Responses to “Photo of the Day”

1. #1 |  Dave Krueger |  August 12th, 2009 at 9:12 am

   Who says our prisons are full? I coat of paint and that place would be ready for occupancy.

2. #2 |  Judi |  August 12th, 2009 at 9:40 am

   Creepy.

3. #3 |  ChrisD |  August 12th, 2009 at 9:47 am

   Radley,

   The Halloween nighttime tour they do at this place is TERRIFYING. You have to make a fall return.

4. #4 |  anne |  August 12th, 2009 at 11:14 am

   I think this is gorgeous – I thought it was an ancient ruin before I read the caption. I may have visited too many urban explorer sites…

5. #5 |  Will |  August 12th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

   Makes me think that there used to be a reason people feared prison and judges didn’t send people there for minor shit, like they do today. Or am I just thinking ‘that’ “the past was a better time thing”?
   Great Pic by the way!

6. #6 |  Anton Sherwood |  August 13th, 2009 at 12:00 am

   This site was used for the psychiatric hospital in Twelve Monkeys.

7. #7 |  Pablo |  August 13th, 2009 at 9:50 am

   #5 Will–you are correct, the practice of locking people up in prisons for long periods of time is a fairly recent phenomenon–it started in the early 1900′s. Before that you stayed in jail for a brief period while your case was being adjudicated. If you were convicted of a minor “crime” like public drunkenness or petty theft you were fined and/or subject to some public humiliation, e.g. flogging or sitting in the stocks in the town square. For pretty much anything else you were executed without delay.

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