"Taking Prison Photos" Top 5 Page for this destination Virginia Warnings Or Dangers Tip by b1bob

Isn't it funny how American prisons are called correctional centres on the false premise that those incarcerated will be reformed? The term is especially ironic here since Mecklenburg Correctional Centre once housed death row. It was the site of a famous prison breakout on death row when 7 condemned prisoners escaped and were on the loose for as much as 19 days in June, 1984. I figured that they closed the prison entirely when they moved death row to Sussex State Prison, southeast of Waverly. On taking a photo of the prison, you would think we had committed the biggest sin. I mean, this big, fat, and dumb middle-aged guard (I hope he's reading this, incidentally, or having this read to him) asked us all sorts of questions and I was prepared to hide my memory card in my socks because there was no way he was confiscating it with a weekend full of photos on it. We shuck and jived our way out of that by saying we never got the photo. This guard would buy oceanfront property in Kentucky! The moral of the story is: when taking shots of prisons, make sure the prison is closed.