Hollywood movie sets were built pretty similar. They always had a window in back because the script called for a crony to slip them a pistol or could tie a rope around a bar, take a dally around his saddle horn and yank it out. There were as many different kinds of jails as there were towns and some were quite primitive.  I've seen a number of old jails that had no outside windows at all. It w


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