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

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

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

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 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?

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.