| When I originally decided to come here,
I thought it was all inside like the Wyoming Penitentiary I had been
to on an earlier trip. It was not and I did not put on sunscreen
before going in, so I spent most of the outdoor time going from
shade spot to shade spot. Anyway, line up single file, alphabetically by height. |
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| The 4 House (1953) is the largest cell block in the penitentiary and could accommodate 320 inmates in four-man cells. |
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| Ah, the glorious indoors. |
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| To allow stricter supervision, the Barber Shop was moved into individual cell houses in the late 1960's. |
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| I don't think I could handle prison, having to use the toilet in front of my fellow prisoners. |
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| Guards used this walkway to monitor inmates in their cells and to manage the plumbing system. |
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| Committing a foul on the court might mean stabbing your opponent with a shiv. |
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| The Maximum Security building (1954), also known as 5 House. |
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| The maximum security cells. |
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| Ah, now this is a place I could comfortably poop. |
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| Death Row. |
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| If you are on death row, do you get things like a television and radio? That sound pretty sweet. Oh wait, never mind. |
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| This is not a place you wanted to find yourself standing. |
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| With a rope around your neck tied to this ring on the ceiling. |
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| Because there was a guy who would pull that lever and you would drop through the trap door and end up hanging on the floor below. |
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| Inside 3 House, or the South Wing (1928). Before it was used as a cell house it held a stone-cutting area and shoe shop. |
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| It took a while to construct 2 House, aka the North Wing, having begun in 1899 and completed in 1911. |
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| Not a lot of width on these bunks. |
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| Inmates used...oh, you can go ahead and read the sign for yourself. |
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| 3 House from the outside. |
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| And 2 House. |
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| Ultimately, this was the way you wanted to get out, preferably after your sentence or early for good behavior and not in a body bag. |
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| This Guard House, built in 1911, is where unmarried guards lived. Free room and board helped compensate for low wages and dangerous working conditions. |
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| The Dairy Barn (1920) |
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| The Horse Barn (1911) had room for sixteen horses and storage for farming implements. |
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| The Women's Ward. Women were held in their own facility in 1906. This ward, with seven double-occupancy cells, was completed in 1920. |
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| The wall around the Women's Ward. It is supposedly open to visitors but the gate was locked. |
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| The Bishops' House. So my guess is that bishops used to live here or a family called Bishops. |
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| The Warden's House has eight rooms and a basement. Costing $3100, the state saved almost $4000 using inmate labor. |
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| Heading out of Boise there was a fire in a residential development area in the suburbs. |
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| Another road, another river, this time I think the Payette River. |
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| Some people think that this sort of scenery is boring, but I don't. |
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| After a long day, the Best Western in McCall, Idaho. |
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| A really nice room. |
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| I originally planned to eat at a different restaurant. I don't recall why I changed my mind, but I ended up at Lardo's where I had a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs. |
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