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Maybe some of the old ways are best ?

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:10 pm
by chuck j
This was the jail in Holliday Tx , it was 'decommissioned' in 1952' . My daughter go's to high school there just a few blacks away so I pass by it all the time . I have often thought these type accommodations might solve the revolving door system now in place at modern prisons . Heck ! It even had air conditioning built in the doors for the Texas summers !

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Re: Maybe some of the old ways are best ?

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:29 pm
by baldeagle
That's a palace compared to the old Palo Pinto county jail. It was a single room made of strap iron welded together. Prisoners sat in the Texas heat with iron walls that would burn them if they touched them.
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At least the concrete walls on that jail wouldn't burn you.