Maximum Security

After the 1959 Riot, the Women's Prison was converted into a maximum security facility in order to separate the riot leaders from the rest of the prison population.

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The Maximum Security Building contained twenty high security cells and four disciplinary cells.

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Most of the cells did not have a toilet, but were equipped with a bucket for human waste. Disgruntled inmates would sometimes empty their waste buckets (called honey buckets) on the guards.

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In order to control noise from disruptive inmates as well as prevent the passing of items from cell to cell and provide the guards protection from the honey buckets, mesh and wooden doors were installed on the cells.