Eastern State Penitentiary

Eastern State Penitentiary Visit

Welcome back! It’s been a while and I’m glad to be posting again. The blogger app hasn’t been updated to ios11 which also is quite lame and makes it more difficult to post. For those of you not aware of the famous Eastern State Penitentiary, here is a little summary of its history.

 Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, but stands today in ruin, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks and empty guard towers. Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world's first true "penitentiary," a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of prisoners. Its vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America's most notorious criminals, including bank robber "Slick Willie" Sutton and Al Capone. (From EasternState.org)

 

Operating Room

Kitchen

Abandoned Broward Correctional Institution-Womens Prison

The Broward Correctional Institution closed May of last year (2012) when the Secretary of Florida Corrections decided to send most female inmates to Lowell correctional in Ocala due to low occupancy and high cost of upkeep for other jails. This property located out in western broward county is now abandoned. Although these are not my photos, they are from a fellow Urbexer (credits below) who I went with on a later date when the gates and doors were unfortunately locked up.

We were only on property for approximately 20 minutes when a van rolled up and a corrections department maintenance worker asked what we were doing. He explained that we were not welcome on this property and needed to leave. So unfortunately we left. The property is completely open up until the prison gates. My pictures are not posted here. Here are the remaining photos....

 

                                           Gates wide open

Eeeeerie 

 

 

Photos courtesy of the awesome @Djmenace954_ru on instagram

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