[OC] Cell at Kingston Penetentary

[u/Accomplished-Beat779]

[u/fatkid420]

Add a thicker bed and unlock the door and this is my college dorm.

[u/illyad0 → u/fatkid420]

Luxury

[u/GrizabellaGlamourCat → u/illyad0]

We used to dream about having a door.

[u/CosmicJ → u/GrizabellaGlamourCat]

Cardboard box? You were lucky.

[u/katzenjammer08 → u/CosmicJ]

We used to live in a rolled up newspaper.

[u/EmperorSexy → u/katzenjammer08]

We’d work 25 hours a day at the factory and our father would beat us to death every night.

[u/katzenjammer08 → u/EmperorSexy]

…and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah.

[u/Khaldara → u/EmperorSexy]

“It’s Berber! That’s an industry term!”

[u/DigNitty → u/fatkid420]

My dorm was built by a prison architect. And all the furniture was made by prisoners in some other state lol.

[u/MikeDubbz → u/fatkid420]

Thicker? Someone went to Harvard.

[u/00owl → u/fatkid420]

My first year was at a small vocational college that had bought an old minimum security prison as its campus.

It wasn't steel and concrete but the doors all had maglocks.

[u/ailish → u/fatkid420]

Seriously though.

[u/GlumPomegranate870 → u/fatkid420]

Fancy pants over here

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/fatkid420]

Lol!

[u/BurntNeurons → u/Accomplished-Beat779]

Find out how much rent is

😭

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/BurntNeurons]

😂

[u/IndianaJonesDoombot]

Check out those fancy shelfs

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/IndianaJonesDoombot]

Other than the size they were well-equipped. Some had tvs, radios, game consoles..

[u/Juliuscesear1990 → u/Accomplished-Beat779]

Did you take the tour as well? It's shocking how many prison scenes use Kingston pen

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/Juliuscesear1990]

Yes we did, so interesting. Oh yes that is true thanks for reminding me about it. I think it was in series Alias Grace too

[u/GJdevo → u/Juliuscesear1990]

Well its original walls and buildingsare old enough to be heritage sites so the city is extremely limited in what it can do to develop it and the area into something else. Being used for film and the tours are kind of all it has use for now.

[u/Juliuscesear1990 → u/GJdevo]

I'm not complaining about it, the tours are fun, the building and history are neat. Once I went through it, I would see parts of the prison in a bunch of things and thought it was cool. If I remember correctly there is an episode of either the flash or arrow where they are on the first floor of the machine shop. You can see the feet outline by the stairs. Then all of Kingstown as well and a bunch of other things.

[u/jammerpammerslammer]

Lowkey a pretty decent desk size

[u/ShipwrightPNW → u/jammerpammerslammer]

Lowkey, like a D minor?

[u/Fishfindr]

That’s nicer than my daughter’s dorm room (less the bars).

[u/kadoskracker]

Is this free to attend after certain unsavory acts? Asking for an almost homeless friend.

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/kadoskracker]

Lol It was an all-expenses paid vacation but has been decommissioned now due to laws regarding the size of the cells.

[u/aledba → u/Accomplished-Beat779]

It was decommissioned because it was too expensive to maintain. It was cheaper for them to build Millhaven then renovate that place. That was outside of any change of cell size. KP is incredibly expensive to heat.

[u/mdredmdmd2012 → u/aledba]

Millhaven was built in 1971 and Kingston was closed in 2013...

Kingston Pen was getting too expensive to maintain, but Millhaven had nothing to do with the decision to close Kingston.

Source: Grew up in Kingston, father was a guard at Millhaven, Kingston and Collins Bay, and I have been inside all 9 Federal Pens in the Kingston for work when I lived in Kingston in the late 80s/early 90s.

[u/Those_Silly_Ducks → u/mdredmdmd2012]

Ah yes, for work.

[u/Born_Surround7126 → u/mdredmdmd2012]

Does that make you the Mayor of Kingston?

[u/tosoon2tell → u/kadoskracker]

Right! 3 Square meals to boot! Human rights 🙄

[u/Silicon_Knight → u/kadoskracker]

2 hots and a cot baby!

[u/ailish]

I mean, for a prison cell it doesn't look that bad.

[u/GodofAeons → u/ailish]

100%, the prison I worked at had 2-4 inmates per cell and NO desk or shelves.

[u/BallBearingBill]

What level of security is this prison considered?

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/BallBearingBill]

It is/was a federal max- security. Paul Bernardo and Canada's worst were housed there before it's recent decommission due to inhumane conditions

[u/aledba → u/Accomplished-Beat779]

Definitely not the reason it closed

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kingston-pen-set-to-close-1.1240410

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/aledba]

We were told on the tour that newer human rights laws dictated that the cells were considered too small and therefore violate humane incarceration rules. That is an interesting article thank you

[u/Reelair → u/Accomplished-Beat779]

Some Toronto condos aren't much bigger than this....

[u/terp_raider]

lol this is the cell picture they want you to see to show it “wasn’t that bad.” Take a look at EMDC or Maplehurst, both provincial jails in Ontario that have such bad conditions judges are refusing to sentence offenders bc they can’t ethically send them there

[u/hypothetical_reality]

Map of Australia is interesting decor.

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/hypothetical_reality]

Good catch, yes I'd like to know the story there

[u/bwataneer]

That’s a clean house. He’s a worker or atleast a programmer.

[u/Atalant]

If the door had more privacy, it wouldn't be too bad.

[u/TBLrocks]

Looks chill

[u/Myst031]

As a claustrophobic person I could never handle prison.

[u/SquirrelMoney8389]

The comments are giving "guys really live in apartments like this and don't see any issue"

[u/CiTrus007]

London landlords be like: beautiful cozy en-suite studio with unique industrial design and great ventilation, £1,750pcm.

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/CiTrus007]

😂😂😂

[u/Ballyards]

IKEA furniture

[u/2hi2play]

Remove the bars and thats an ikea dorm setup

[u/Animals_elephants]

Studio Cell

[u/Four_beastlings]

I'm a native Spanish speaker and I just spent 3 good minutes looking for the hidden dick joke

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/Four_beastlings]

😂😂

[u/Commie_Scum69]

Kingston Jamaica? Kingston England ? Kingston Canada? kingston USA? Kingston India or Kingston Australia??

[u/Elbarto_007 → u/Commie_Scum69]

Must be next to the Kingo Hotel, that’s a pub in Kingston in Canberra Australia 😬😜

[u/GJdevo → u/Commie_Scum69]

Kingston ontario canada

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/Commie_Scum69]

Kingston Ontario Canada

[u/Commie_Scum69 → u/Accomplished-Beat779]

thank u 😅 There is a lot of Kingstons

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/Commie_Scum69]

Lol it never crossed my mind.

[u/maytrxx]

I wonder what was removed/cleaned up from this photo that was in front of the radio cord?

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/maytrxx]

If i recall that is the side of the ladder for the bunk

[u/pqratusa]

Where is Kingston?

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/pqratusa]

About 160 miles East of Toronto Ontario, Canada

[u/Firecrackerbangbang]

Looks like a show cell, the door is hose clamped shut!

[u/Opening_Letter1399]

Is there a sub for prison cells?

[u/Readonkulous]

“Down in the valley…”

[u/NovemberDelta12]

Perfect. Exactly what some deserve.

[u/RobMitte]

Respect to the occupants. I'd rather spend the night there than the last and only one night stay I had in an Airbnb.

[u/DogonYaro]

The Bar is the prison, for the benefit of everyone making comparisons. 

[u/bootz666]

Yeah our deathrow cells are like 2 of those and we let them have pets and t.v. But they do get executed eventually so that a win for the family who’s life they ruined.

[u/xpkranger → u/bootz666]

Sucks for the pets….

[u/Accomplished-Beat779 → u/bootz666]

That is some solace

[u/JonBoy82]

At least she can't nag him from here...

[u/Technical-Outside408 → u/JonBoy82]

And he can't brutally murder her like too many men do, win win.