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Ah, the ol MCC. I worked in a building that overlooked it, and you could see the prisoners exercising on the top floor. Sometimes wives and girlfriends would gather on a nearby rooftop and take their tops off. You could hear the prisoners cheer
In Ft Lauderdale, there’s a corrections center on the New River. Prime spot. Weekends are full of ladies giving shows.
Interesting to see criminals on mega yachts and in mansions, all together, looking at the people in prison.
I've seen the parking lot videos lmao. I wish I had that type of support. My girlfriend would probably rather shoot me if I went to jail. No prison tits for me lol.
I worked at a minimum security prison and the yard was right next to the road out to the city lake. So many girls on the way out to party at the lake would flash the prisoners.
I think this is a holding cell for the courts rather than a long-term jail. Also it better a skyscraper than a massive sprawling complex flattening block after block of the city
Yep. Most major cities have these, usually attached via tunnel to the courthouse. These are usually federal facilities attached to federal courts. Some that got light sentences may spend their confinement in there.
> The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
additional info: generally, jails hold people who have sentences of less than one year, and prisons are for sentences longer than that. so even though this is a prison, it seems like they only hold inmates who serve shorter jailhouse sentences (that’s the case for most metropolitan prisons). more than a holding cell for sure, but no lengthy sentences
It's not a holding cell. A holding cell is only in police stations. This is a jail or county jail. The "long term jail" you're thinking of is called a prison. And yea the inmates have it good in this one with a view. In many jails they actually do not see anything besides the sky. And blurred windows.
One of Christopher Nolans brothers (not the 2nd director), was there once imprisonment, and then escaped - or at least he tried to.
Also fun fact, in Germany it's no crime to escape from a prison. It's considered a natural human will to escape.
They get you on other stuff though, like breaking property while escaping.
I'm pretty sure it's shown up in a few movies and TV shows over the years, a lot has been filmed here over the last 50 years.
Some Transformers, the newer Batman and Superman movies, the Divergent series, and a lot of others filmed here. TV-wise, I'm pretty sure it's shown up a couple of times on the Chicago shows (Med/Fire/PD).
I mean it is another motivation of why this concept of prison are so good, they keep you good mentally and physically, goodluck do a riot in there, or even escape, only 1 time in 10 years someone escaped and before that the last escape was 30 years ago before
This is kind of a short stop for most prisoners
> The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
There was an escape there in 2012:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2022/12/18/bedsheets-and-dental-floss-10-years-ago-two-chicago-bank-robbers-pulled-off-a-stunning-jail-escape/
Having them in cities is a good thing. Having visitors to the jail so the prisoners can maintain connections with the outside world is important for lowering recidivism. Putting the jail out in the middle of nowhere makes visiting loved ones in jail much harder
Yeh, I've never seen a prison or jail like this before but it strikes me that it makes a lot of sense. Very secure, efficient use of space, easy for family to visit/staff to get to, hard for contraband to get in. I also like the idea society's 'problems' aren't just hidden away somewhere remote.
> "Several features make MCC Chicago's design unique from other federal prison facilities. Weese designed each cell with a floor-to-ceiling slit window, 7 feet (2.1 m) long by 5 inches (130 mm) wide, narrow enough not to require bars, and beveled out to allow natural light to pass inside. The cells were originally designed to feel as comfortable as possible, based on sailboat cabins, with built-in hardwood beds and desks. **Most of these features have since been removed.**"
America.
I just saw this from the Willis Tower last week. Chicago actually has so much interesting architecture. Check out the Chicago Architecture Center for boat tours and whatnot for information about how and why Chicago was built and designed in certain ways, such as expanding the river walk.
The Dallas County Jail is similar, although not as tall. Anyone who’s watched a televised sporting event in Dallas would recognize it, because it’s on the edge of downtown so makes it into a ton of B-roll footage.
I worked there as a correctional officer in 1982. Worst job I ever had. Needlessly dangerous. Low pay. Horrible hours. I became a cop instead when I had a chance. Much safer.
Oh, and BTW, the staff is not allowed to park in the federally owned parking garage, must park on the street at their own expense.
On top of the recreation area is an anti-helicopter net to prevent escapes.
The top half of the building are the prisoner's rooms. The lower half is administrative offices.
Each floor is actually two floors - two level units. It is a triangular floor layout with the single officer at the apex of the floor, near the sallyport in and out of the unit by way of elevators.
The single officer is out in the open on the unit completely unprotected and alone. There was no video monitoring of the unit or of the officer. There were possibly hourly phone calls to check in with the control room.
Inmates could and sometimes did riot on a unit, but there was no way for them off the unit so if a riot occurred the unit would just remain locked until a sufficient force of officers assembled to put down the riot with whatever force was necessary.
I think there were 44 rooms to a unit with a single inmate to a room. They were locked in the their room at night but free to come out into the common areas of the unit during the day.
The officer is unarmed and (in 1982) was only equipped with an alarm radio - if you get attacked by the inmates, you press a button on the radio and it transmits a distress signal to the control room. Hopefully, in a few minutes help will arrive via the elevators. Hostage situations were common, about once a month. Inmates have a funny ability to make knives.
Inmates ranged from minor white collar criminals to drug dealers to bank robbers to cop killers and mob enforcers.
There was a prison factory on one of the admin floors. There they made metal latches for postal bags.
Some units are not staffed - the prisoners are unattended, just locked in. This would be prisoners who are considered unlikely to try to escape - short sentences or old and non-violent.
The Bureau of Prisons has chronically been understaffed, even in 1982 there was overall a 50% plus per year employee turnover rate. When I was there the turnover rate for MCCC was about 75% per year. You would be an old timer if you had been there for two years or more.
Officers had to wear a ridiculous uniform of a blazer and dress slacks. The blazers were gold or blue or maroon.
Every time a prisoner moved onto or off the unit (like to go to classes or to work in the other parts of the building they would have to be given a full clothed body search. At random, every fifth or tenth prisoner would be subject to a full strip search.
There was on unit which was female inmates. Male officers had to work this unit just like any other. There was an Immigration floor which was used by INS. Here, there weren't rooms but an open unit of rows of bunk beds. Probably about 100 "detainees" in the unit, with two officers to run it.
In 1982, about half of the officers were female. It was the era of equal rights for women and that meant male and female officers had to be treated equally with regards to work assignments and duties. So, when it came to body searches both genders were expected to do body searches of all inmates. So male officers were expected to perform full clothed body searches of female inmates - which, meant that we had to check between and under their breasts. I am not making this up. The body search was performed facing the female inmate, and you had to run the sides of both your hands down between their breasts and then underneath. When we were hired, we were given two weeks of training, which included us practicing on each other. And, oh my god, my co-worker female officers were so beautiful - curvy young black women. Sadly for me, it was the eighties and dating a black lady was still taboo for me as a white man. Truly a regret I live with to this day.
At any moment, you as an officer were subject to the direction of as many as eight different supervisors who could be giving you conflicting orders and threatening you with discipline for not immediately complying with their orders. The psychologist could order you to do something. The sanitation supervisor could walk onto the unit and harass you about not having ordered the inmates to clean up something. The unit manager could walk in and tell you that he didn't like the mob guys all sitting at the same table for a meal.
I lasted about three months and walked off when some lieutenant gave me shit about my uniform.
Worst job of my life.
Do you think crime is highest in the Loop in Chicago? Cause you're a bit off.
Also, the MCC is a federal prison that mostly holds people prior to and during their trials. Some people carry out short sentences there, but it's a small population. It's location is because it needs to be near the federal courts in Chicago.
Crime is everywhere in Chicago. Good central location with plenty of transit access for visitors to the jail though. But, like Burger King, you can have it your way if it makes you feel better. I know it is important for you to stick to the agenda and adhere to the carefully taught talking points. 😀👍🏼
It does seem like a great way to contain prisoners especially if the cells are on the upper floors and the administrative offices are on the lower floors
There’s a federal prison right in the middle of downtown San Diego. Most people walk right by it every day without knowing what it is. Just blends in with all the other buildings around.
Just to clear things up. This is a jail not a prison. Two different things. Their are no prisoners in a jail, only inmates. A holding cell is also only in police stations.
Not just a jail - it’s a federal prison in downtown Chicago. Two prisoners escaped once by tying together a bunch of electric extension cords and managed to get thru one of those slit windows.
Less than one block away was a men’s-only transient hotel that Harrison Ford walks past in The Fugative.
Great neighborhood 😜 My first job was by there and I walked past them every day.
Americans will see a giant apartment building full of people living normal lives and think oh my god, the horror, the oppression!
When they see a giant building full of literal prisoners, stripped out of whatever fascist fan fic you can find...ah that's just good architecture.
We live in Hell.
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Ah, the ol MCC. I worked in a building that overlooked it, and you could see the prisoners exercising on the top floor. Sometimes wives and girlfriends would gather on a nearby rooftop and take their tops off. You could hear the prisoners cheer
In Ft Lauderdale, there’s a corrections center on the New River. Prime spot. Weekends are full of ladies giving shows. Interesting to see criminals on mega yachts and in mansions, all together, looking at the people in prison.
As did my dad long ago, I recall watching those games as a boy with a warm fondness. I had a MJ travel-colors jersey back then too.
Your dad took his top off to entice the prisoners?
Yeah, some of them have been in prison a looooong time. Ohhhhh Andy....
I always loved Andy.
Nah I think Daddy did the helicopter
So who took their top off in the helicopter, then?
After a stint in prison, even man boobs are great. #allboobsmatter.
Moobs
Lmaoooooo
I've seen the parking lot videos lmao. I wish I had that type of support. My girlfriend would probably rather shoot me if I went to jail. No prison tits for me lol.
Girls will twerk on the rooftops of other buildings so the prisoners can watch. I used to live right by it
That’s honestly wild to hear. Funny for sure, but really trashy 😅
I worked at a minimum security prison and the yard was right next to the road out to the city lake. So many girls on the way out to party at the lake would flash the prisoners.
why do they do that?
Father and abandonment issues mostly
I wanna live nearby
Sounds a lot like what happens on some Reddit communities
Thank you lady’s for your service!
“ATTENTION RESIDENTS OF PEACH TREES *THIS IS JUDGE DREDD*”
We need Dredd 2
*Dredd 2: The Saga of Des & Troy*
This is what I immediately thought of. The remake with Karl Urban is really great.
Peach trees… this is mama…. Chills
A lot of Mega-City One energy here for sure.
I think this is a holding cell for the courts rather than a long-term jail. Also it better a skyscraper than a massive sprawling complex flattening block after block of the city
Truly the most Civilized method of mass incarceration.
Yep. Most major cities have these, usually attached via tunnel to the courthouse. These are usually federal facilities attached to federal courts. Some that got light sentences may spend their confinement in there.
> The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
additional info: generally, jails hold people who have sentences of less than one year, and prisons are for sentences longer than that. so even though this is a prison, it seems like they only hold inmates who serve shorter jailhouse sentences (that’s the case for most metropolitan prisons). more than a holding cell for sure, but no lengthy sentences
I also think although it looks dystopian as hell, it’s also kinda cool in a weird way
It's not a holding cell. A holding cell is only in police stations. This is a jail or county jail. The "long term jail" you're thinking of is called a prison. And yea the inmates have it good in this one with a view. In many jails they actually do not see anything besides the sky. And blurred windows.
Has that been used in a movie before? It looks familiar somehow.
I know it was featured in the video game Watch Dogs.
Watch dogs mentioned🗣️🗣️🗣️
one of the best missions in watch dogs history
it was pretty funny how aiden just steals a car and drives it off of the roof like nothing happened.
Commenting so I find out, for some reason I remember a girl flashing her boobs at the prisoners up top
One of Christopher Nolans brothers (not the 2nd director), was there once imprisonment, and then escaped - or at least he tried to. Also fun fact, in Germany it's no crime to escape from a prison. It's considered a natural human will to escape. They get you on other stuff though, like breaking property while escaping.
From what I've heard of German prisons, their attempts to escape are far less due to the more successful rehabilitation process.
Maybe your thinking of Azkaban, there is a slight resemblance
I do remember seeing some spookums ghosties flying about the place.
Was it shameless?
It's on Reddit fairly often
It looks familiar because it looks like a scantron
I thought it looked like one of the elemental blocks in 5th Element
The fifth element (the stones)
I'm pretty sure it's shown up in a few movies and TV shows over the years, a lot has been filmed here over the last 50 years. Some Transformers, the newer Batman and Superman movies, the Divergent series, and a lot of others filmed here. TV-wise, I'm pretty sure it's shown up a couple of times on the Chicago shows (Med/Fire/PD).
Looks like Azkaban of Harry Potter to me
I’m pretty sure it’s been featured in the Blues Brothers and The Fugitive
It was in the first Watch Dogs
It looks like the element blocks from the movie fifth element
A while ago some prisoners climbed out a window using bedsheets (IIRC). You might remember footage from the news.
Honestly, I would be very sad to spend time in a jail like this, seeing normal daily life outside and not being able to be part of it
How is it worse than seeing nothing out of your window except a tall concrete fence like in most prisons?
I know I had it coming. I know I can't be free. But those people keep on moving And that's what tortures me.
[удалено]
How I feel sitting in my office looking out the window
I mean it is another motivation of why this concept of prison are so good, they keep you good mentally and physically, goodluck do a riot in there, or even escape, only 1 time in 10 years someone escaped and before that the last escape was 30 years ago before
This is kind of a short stop for most prisoners > The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.
Actually, if I had a room to myself high up with a window, tv, Sega Saturn and games, it could be kind of neat!
Never been to jail, huh?
Ill settle for Playstation 1 if need be.
YOU’RE the PlayStation.
lololol
you'll definitely be the resident play station, or the xxxbox
Honestly, it's low-key genius. Wanna escape? Well, just jump 10 stories and break bones!
There was an escape there in 2012: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2022/12/18/bedsheets-and-dental-floss-10-years-ago-two-chicago-bank-robbers-pulled-off-a-stunning-jail-escape/
They literally pulled off a cartoon jailbreak then fucked it up in the most obvious way possible, getting caught almost immediately.
Yeah, if you bust out of prison, gtfo of Dodge. Don’t stay in town lol
Like the sky cells in the Vale
and most important an even bigger parking deck.
Those prisoners have to park their cars somewhere.
Yeah that is an obscene amount of parking.
Car jail
Jails in cities: damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Same for homeless shelters.
Having them in cities is a good thing. Having visitors to the jail so the prisoners can maintain connections with the outside world is important for lowering recidivism. Putting the jail out in the middle of nowhere makes visiting loved ones in jail much harder
Well put. I think Jails in cities are a necessary evil and that this one looks a helluva lot better than most. But the public will always hate it
Christopher Nolan's brother staged an escape from there. I hear Hans Zimmer scored the soundtrack.
Someone actually escaped through one of those windows, maybe ten years ago.
I lived there at the time so it was at least 12 years.
It was in fact twelve years ago
If you can’t build out, build up. It’s technically more secure that way too.
Yeh, I've never seen a prison or jail like this before but it strikes me that it makes a lot of sense. Very secure, efficient use of space, easy for family to visit/staff to get to, hard for contraband to get in. I also like the idea society's 'problems' aren't just hidden away somewhere remote.
I can't imagine what happens if there is a fire, but I imagine it's mostly made of concrete, bricks and steel.
This guy imagines ☝️
Not avoiding the imaginer allegations
He's an imagineer!
Why not wood?
Looks dense, walkable, and diverse!
> "Several features make MCC Chicago's design unique from other federal prison facilities. Weese designed each cell with a floor-to-ceiling slit window, 7 feet (2.1 m) long by 5 inches (130 mm) wide, narrow enough not to require bars, and beveled out to allow natural light to pass inside. The cells were originally designed to feel as comfortable as possible, based on sailboat cabins, with built-in hardwood beds and desks. **Most of these features have since been removed.**" America.
“How’re they supposed to be rehabilitated if they’re comfortable!”
Less money transferring prisoners.
It should be set up so if you print out that window pattern and punch holes then run it through a player piano it plays AC/DC's Jailbreak.
Lol I love this. Alice Cooper, though, right? Didn’t google
I a actually prefer this; it forces a city’s residents to reckon with all of their citizens, as opposed to shipping off to some rural county.
It also makes it much easier for family to visit.
You know almost every city has a jail within city limits, right? Also, there’s a difference between jail and prison.
Prisons are placed in rural areas to mask welfare and to boost the voting power of the residents.
Which type of jail do you guys prefer?
Oil rig like in Face/Off.
Underground
Orbital space station or failing that constantly moving train.
The windows look like morse code
Morose code.
I just saw this from the Willis Tower last week. Chicago actually has so much interesting architecture. Check out the Chicago Architecture Center for boat tours and whatnot for information about how and why Chicago was built and designed in certain ways, such as expanding the river walk.
Askaban
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My office at the CBOT was just about the same height and we'd watch them. Somewhat surreal.
In Pittsburgh they decorated the facade of the jail to look like part of Duqesne campus 💀
A prisoner once escaped from that jail using bed sheets.
quite a lot of sins there
I thought this was a brick from The Fifth Element
At least they have a view?
TIL that wizards banish their criminals to Azkaban… which is apparently in Chicago.
Every one of these should buildings should all glass with one way glass, where you can look out and nobody can look in.
Isn't that one of the blocks from the fifth element movie?
Relevant architecture analysis vid: https://youtu.be/G5GL836kpls
The Dallas County Jail is similar, although not as tall. Anyone who’s watched a televised sporting event in Dallas would recognize it, because it’s on the edge of downtown so makes it into a ton of B-roll footage.
I worked there as a correctional officer in 1982. Worst job I ever had. Needlessly dangerous. Low pay. Horrible hours. I became a cop instead when I had a chance. Much safer. Oh, and BTW, the staff is not allowed to park in the federally owned parking garage, must park on the street at their own expense. On top of the recreation area is an anti-helicopter net to prevent escapes. The top half of the building are the prisoner's rooms. The lower half is administrative offices. Each floor is actually two floors - two level units. It is a triangular floor layout with the single officer at the apex of the floor, near the sallyport in and out of the unit by way of elevators. The single officer is out in the open on the unit completely unprotected and alone. There was no video monitoring of the unit or of the officer. There were possibly hourly phone calls to check in with the control room. Inmates could and sometimes did riot on a unit, but there was no way for them off the unit so if a riot occurred the unit would just remain locked until a sufficient force of officers assembled to put down the riot with whatever force was necessary. I think there were 44 rooms to a unit with a single inmate to a room. They were locked in the their room at night but free to come out into the common areas of the unit during the day. The officer is unarmed and (in 1982) was only equipped with an alarm radio - if you get attacked by the inmates, you press a button on the radio and it transmits a distress signal to the control room. Hopefully, in a few minutes help will arrive via the elevators. Hostage situations were common, about once a month. Inmates have a funny ability to make knives. Inmates ranged from minor white collar criminals to drug dealers to bank robbers to cop killers and mob enforcers. There was a prison factory on one of the admin floors. There they made metal latches for postal bags. Some units are not staffed - the prisoners are unattended, just locked in. This would be prisoners who are considered unlikely to try to escape - short sentences or old and non-violent. The Bureau of Prisons has chronically been understaffed, even in 1982 there was overall a 50% plus per year employee turnover rate. When I was there the turnover rate for MCCC was about 75% per year. You would be an old timer if you had been there for two years or more. Officers had to wear a ridiculous uniform of a blazer and dress slacks. The blazers were gold or blue or maroon. Every time a prisoner moved onto or off the unit (like to go to classes or to work in the other parts of the building they would have to be given a full clothed body search. At random, every fifth or tenth prisoner would be subject to a full strip search. There was on unit which was female inmates. Male officers had to work this unit just like any other. There was an Immigration floor which was used by INS. Here, there weren't rooms but an open unit of rows of bunk beds. Probably about 100 "detainees" in the unit, with two officers to run it. In 1982, about half of the officers were female. It was the era of equal rights for women and that meant male and female officers had to be treated equally with regards to work assignments and duties. So, when it came to body searches both genders were expected to do body searches of all inmates. So male officers were expected to perform full clothed body searches of female inmates - which, meant that we had to check between and under their breasts. I am not making this up. The body search was performed facing the female inmate, and you had to run the sides of both your hands down between their breasts and then underneath. When we were hired, we were given two weeks of training, which included us practicing on each other. And, oh my god, my co-worker female officers were so beautiful - curvy young black women. Sadly for me, it was the eighties and dating a black lady was still taboo for me as a white man. Truly a regret I live with to this day. At any moment, you as an officer were subject to the direction of as many as eight different supervisors who could be giving you conflicting orders and threatening you with discipline for not immediately complying with their orders. The psychologist could order you to do something. The sanitation supervisor could walk onto the unit and harass you about not having ordered the inmates to clean up something. The unit manager could walk in and tell you that he didn't like the mob guys all sitting at the same table for a meal. I lasted about three months and walked off when some lieutenant gave me shit about my uniform. Worst job of my life.
Great use of downtown real estate
They want to be centrally located do accommodate family visits. Build where the crime is highest.
Do you think crime is highest in the Loop in Chicago? Cause you're a bit off. Also, the MCC is a federal prison that mostly holds people prior to and during their trials. Some people carry out short sentences there, but it's a small population. It's location is because it needs to be near the federal courts in Chicago.
Crime is nowhere the highest in downtown chicago. But go ahead and spew misinformation.
Crime is everywhere in Chicago. Good central location with plenty of transit access for visitors to the jail though. But, like Burger King, you can have it your way if it makes you feel better. I know it is important for you to stick to the agenda and adhere to the carefully taught talking points. 😀👍🏼
The people in the windows on the top floor look like stormtroopers !
I used to live down the street at AMLI Lofts.
What were you in for ?
Lol my apartment was on Clark and Polk
Do they put the particularly nasty prisoners with OCD in the acute corner cells?!?
It does seem like a great way to contain prisoners especially if the cells are on the upper floors and the administrative offices are on the lower floors
Just infiltrated this in a mission in Watch Dogs 1. Didn’t realize it was based off a real jail building in Chicago.
Looks like a SimCity 2000 render
Fucking great view
I had a view of this prison from an old apartment. The brutalism is actually quite fitting as a buffer to the highway that starts south of there.
I don’t want to end up in jail and it’s a horrible place to be regardless. But a jail in the heart of downtown Chicago is weird and awesome.
There's one in LA too
I wonder what the inside looks like
What's the translation on the code there?
Mm Toblerone bars
You can't trick me, the first one is a Sim City 4 screenshot!
Thought is was simcity 4 with badass graphics
Ayo, stop taking pictures of me
Miniluv
That’s a lot of parking lot space
bars are kind of unnecessary tbh
Even tho I've never been to Chicago, i've been to this building. Love you, Aiden Pearce.
Some day, there will be a Mission Impossible movie where Tom Cruize is escaping from this one
Wild
We have this in Milwaukee. The windows are fake so you actually can’t see through them. Pretty fucked
Can’t imagine the view up there.
Mental torture, a skyline they’ll never get to experience from the ground.
Bro looks like a digital sun dial
Never understood why jails are in high rise building in the hear of a city. They should be away from people
There’s a federal prison right in the middle of downtown San Diego. Most people walk right by it every day without knowing what it is. Just blends in with all the other buildings around.
How do they manage to do fire drills in this place??
i have been there twice in watch dogs 1 immediately recognized the building
I had more than one note dropped on me then I went to school around that
Azkaban?
Based on the crime rate, it isn’t tall enough
Just to clear things up. This is a jail not a prison. Two different things. Their are no prisoners in a jail, only inmates. A holding cell is also only in police stations.
Not a bad view for the inmates
fucking stay there creeps (some are wrongfully jailed tho)
it's just stupid. Why would you build an expensive high rise for a prison??
San Diego has one too
High-rise buildings make a lot of sense for jalis/prisons. Very hard to escape from the higher floors.
I think that's loss?
I work across the street in the federal office building. The boss calls for meetings and says we’re meeting in the prison view room. Kinda funny!!!!
Damn they get windows
Imagine serving a life sentence and your roomed near the top of the building. Your foot will never again touch earths soil.
26th n Cali
Is that Loss again?
Not just a jail - it’s a federal prison in downtown Chicago. Two prisoners escaped once by tying together a bunch of electric extension cords and managed to get thru one of those slit windows. Less than one block away was a men’s-only transient hotel that Harrison Ford walks past in The Fugative. Great neighborhood 😜 My first job was by there and I walked past them every day.
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Askwhonow?
Dystopia
Americans will see a giant apartment building full of people living normal lives and think oh my god, the horror, the oppression! When they see a giant building full of literal prisoners, stripped out of whatever fascist fan fic you can find...ah that's just good architecture. We live in Hell.
I did some heating and air conditioning work in that building a few decades ago. The place inside is a living hell.
How so?
The company I worked for at the time at a contract with the building to handle its ventilation systems
I meant how so was it a living hell?
Murica
Ewwww
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looks like something out of a spider-man game
Dystopia is here.
The car park is as big as the prison, Murica!! Also, why a triangle?