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Offline Cherokee Mike

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TV Western Jail Design
« on: October 06, 2010, 03:18:10 AM »
Just about all of the jails I've seen in Westerns and in more modern-era TV shows (Andy Griffith Show) have a rear window facing a deserted alley or unwatched area.  Whenever the prisoners' friends wanted to talk to, or slip a gun to the incarcerated man, they would do so without any problems.  A few times guns would be fired through the window to even a score or kill a protected witness.

Did real jails use mesh or wire instead of iron bars on the exterior walls to prevent this from happening?  Or would a deputy be stationed somewhere outside whenever someone was in the jail?           

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Re: TV Western Jail Design
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2010, 06:41:01 PM »
Most small town jails had no windows at all...if they even had a jail to begin with!
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