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The octagon; as it had been christened by the inmates, was a stout three storied structure, the first two levels serving for official use; mainly the physical handling and processing of the incoming and occasional outgoing inmates. The upper most level is reserved for the day to day administration of the prison; the warden's lavish living quarters was set dead center in its interior circumference.

The six cell blocks lack much in comparison to the majestic, yet pudgy semi-tower. The blocks were dingy and reeking of body odor, sweat and the occasional inopportune release of urine upon the concrete floor. This most detestable living space had been barely brought up to modern standards of incarceration, the maintenance staff were obscenely deficient in their painting duties. Save for the installment of bright fluorescent overhead lighting fixtures, nothing has changed since the construction of the prison more then 100 years before.

The sickly hued coloration of the original cell walls bled through the haphazard sploshing of the new-fangled color scheme. The barriers which kept the prisoners from wandering the halls of the prison betrayed their age to showcase the harshness of a bygone era. The bonded bars of modern jail cells were virtually nonexistent in the era of Enlightenment, still remaining were the iron slated doors with their floor level square openings.

Such is the case with the few dozen inmates still locked within their cells. These were the last of those who..........



The Allensworth correctional facility was devoid of staff, its guard and even its obsessively dedicated warden. The bodies of the inmates which once packed the cells and hallways of Allensworth had been carted away, and with the absence of these heated forms the cold was able to reclaim the complex.

The prison had stood witness to some of the most amazing displays of brutality and carnage, though it had never experienced the horror of complete emptiness, for even before the prison was fully completed in 1843, it already housed its first one hundred inmates. Its total capacity being 550 prisoners.