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

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

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

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

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

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,…

Game scores and counts of push-ups and sit-ups were common. Who was “Sonja” and did the cross symbolize her death?

The finger pointed to the “We’re watching you, you can’t get out” eye graffiti over the cell block entrance door.

“Jesus loves you” and other religious sentiments and drawings were surprisingly frequent.

Dan showed both artistic talent and imagination in commemorating his fondness for Kathy. Two nearly identical drawings were among the other graffiti, and another, lacking as many points and without initials, may have been a prototype.