so we just arrived to explore and document this abandoned jail but we just realized that it might
not actually be 100% abandoned although large sections of the jail are indeed abandoned we just
watched several police officers walk into the same exact building that we are about to go explore
here you see one of the jail keys still in the door
that's pretty cool to see and as you look down the hall you
see their stuff just all scattered about almost like they're still working in here
there's some flickering lights going on over here making it pretty creepy but these are actually
holding cells these two cells here you can see the long extended bench so they can house multiple
inmates when they first come in so this is the former visitation area and you can see through
the window there's little stools set up so the inmates can visit their loved ones and vice versa
okay so we're going to leave the first floor booking area and go upstairs to the
jail dorms where the inmates were actually held
so this abandoned jail was originally built in the 1950s as a motel because this area
was thriving at that time with other small businesses venues and retail stores but by the
80s this neighborhood really started to decline with guns drugs prostitution and other crimes
so the sheriff's office bought the motel and actually renovated the motel into the jail that
you see here now the jail was originally designed to house women inmates and offenders by the 2000s
the jail also started to house juvenile offenders that were convicted of felony misdemeanors
some inmates were also held as they weighted transfer to a prison to serve long-term sentencing
so this dorm here has a unique layout and design where we have bunk beds on each side
and then you have a tv where everyone would watch and probably fight over what to watch
and this obviously over here is the shower area
i can only imagine what went on there and we take a look back at the bunk beds in the dorm here
okay so approximately 20 years ago the jail really began to experience major issues and irreversible
damage when a huge storm wrecked havoc in the area and even flooded large portions of the jail itself
there have been many tragic accounts documented of what exactly happened
in the jail during that huge storm and the consequential flooding that followed
many inmates even went on record to talk about the deplorable conditions of the jail
after the storm where they had no food water or fresh air during that time
here we see a close-up view of some of the food trays that were left behind
and some of the food trays still have food inside them
you can see that this style of dorm is a bit different from the other one with the bunk beds
this dorm actually has jail cells on each of the walls and they all surround the eating
area and seating area in the middle of it this is inside one of the guard booths and you can
see that they had monitors so they could watch the cctv inside the dorms in this
cell there's actually a kitchen jumpsuit for one of the inmates that worked in the kitchen
and with this pan here you can kind of see the
layout of how this jail dorm looks and how it's different from the other one
here's some playing cards that the inmates use to help pass time still sitting on the table
here's some various photographs that we were able to capture from inside this particular dorm
inside the abandoned jail
and as you can imagine inmates had quite a bit of time on their hands so as you can see they
obviously drew and carved on the walls inside their cells and that's exactly what you see here
with all sorts of various pictures and writings in each of these cells
as we take a closer look at some of the inmate drawings and carvings inside their cells it'll
give us a chance to actually talk about some of the reports that inmates made about the
jail during the storm some of the reports were inmates had to drink contaminated water from
leftover showers and also from toilets because there was no fresh water due to the storm
another report was due to the storm the jail had no electricity or power
so the jail cells became pitch black and then the toilets began to overflow so there was this
toxic and foul odor that permeated through the entire jail there was also reports of
inmates having seizures and even fainting because they were not able to access their medications
now we're going to creep all the way up to the top floor to check out the final area of the jail
so it looks like this jail dorm was very similar to the first one with all the bunk beds lined up
on each side except for this one it looks like the bunk beds were actually taken out at some point
although the jail did operate for a few years after the catastrophic storm
it was pretty much the final nail in the coffin as it just suffered way too
much structural and electrical damage that it eventually had to be closed
and that should wrap it up for the abandoned jail friends hope you all enjoyed it don't
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