Maximum Security Detention The wall down the center increases the sense of isolation, by ensuring that no one could see anything but a wall, on the chance that they could see out the door to the cell, perhaps when the guards bring food. How would your mental health be after a day or two in here, let alone a week or two, or months?

There are two doors. This is the interior door seen from the doorway of the outer "bank vault" door. There is a mattress on the concrete block used for a bunk. Mentally Ill prisoners testify to having the mattress taken away before they are led in.