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[es]Old Newark county Jail
| Type | Aerial view | Country | Date | Status | Rating | |
 Public building | Here ! |  USA | 2006-04-08 | Abandoned | **** |
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What About Jail Exploring?
Exploring an abandoned jail is the dream of many explorers here. Maybe because in Europe we do not have so many derelict prisons?
The Old Essex County Jail Complex was built in 1837 in Newark, New Jersey.
Also known as Newark Street Jail, it has a capacity of 300 cells, each one of them equipped with running water and toilet facilities.
The 1890 building
Abandoned...
In 1970, a new jail is built, and the "Old jail on new street" is then abandoned.
Although it is the oldest building in the county and is listed on the national register of historic places since 1991, nothing is done to protect and save it from dereliction.
Squatters, dealers and drug-addicts are now living here.
Here, as in many other places, the policy is "demolition by neglect", or in other words, waiting for the remaining structures to burn or collapse so that the site can be redeveloped in something more 'valuable'...