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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'...
I was wondering if the jail is as of now, still standing? Also, to anyone who might know, how is Newark as a whole doing nowadays? Has today's economy impacted it for the worse? Thanks.
bradiy
– minneapolis, MN
i'm pretty sure i've driven by that, might have to cheeck it out when i'm back in PA. how do deal with the "Squatters, dealers and drug-addicts" that live there? or do they tend to be gone during the day, or just ocasionaly?
Nice man, looks very creepy and dangerous. Thanks for posting this 
Saw this in person the outside is just as described!
Thanks Michelle :-) When I go international, I don't go alone, I'm always shown around. And I pay back when I receive guests! About taking stuff home, I tend to avoid it!
Just fanstastic. I'm curious, do you ever venture out alone during these international explorations? I tend to be pretty comfortable exploring local, condemned buildings on my own. But I have to say, there's no chance of me ever solitarily going into any abandoned buildings in a town that I'm not intimately familiar with. I'm way too chicken for that. Also, do you ever collect souvenirs from these places? I find the dated papers quite interesting. Or do you leave them beind for future explorers?