Hollywood movie sets built their jails pretty similar. They always had a window in back because the script called for a crony to slip them a pistol or tie a rope around a bar, take a dally around his saddle horn and yank it out. I’ve never seen a slop bucket in the movie jails.
In reality here were as many different kinds of jails as there were towns and some
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