We always see on Hollywood westerns, the jails in towns like Tombstone, Dodge City are portrayed with large windows with bars to prevent escape. But did they really have large windows? What is to prevent someone from walking up and tossing a pistol in to the prisoner?
Most jails were very crude. The cliché of the jail bars, with the big window is quite unrealistic. Most jail windows had corr
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