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Ray Haynes is well remembered by former correction officer Stan Fayer. He got a piece of stone loose from one of the debtors’ cells windows, and tried to hit Stan with it as he walked across the yard below the window. Perhaps not coincidentally,…

A simple but interesting portrait. Most would not have wanted to share a cell with him.

A lot of “fine art” may have been lost on falling paint flakes before any of it was photographed.

Why is she standing on some sort of homemade Christmas tree-like stand? Who knows?

Norris may or may not have been a bard, but he wrote fancy graffiti. Could you do 65 pushups or even 10?

Thousands slept here but only Harris bothered to write about it.

The artist could have at least drawn the outline of the jail and its yard to scale!

If the writer indeed had just been “sentenced” to New Jersey State Prison for 4 to 6 years, he was about to move on to bigger, if not better, accommodations.

Not more than one in 10,000 visitors would recognize this 1685 Philadelphia street plan cartouche which appeared on an inset on a few 18th century maps of Pennsylvania. Our jail attracted some well-educated inmates.

“Dan’s” artwork depicting his apparent ardor for “Kathy” appears throughout the Jail. This may have been the piece which gave birth to his “Dan and Kathy” art work. The “don’t look over the door behind you” is a reference to a huge eye drawn over…