The antiseptic-smelling hallways of Police Plaza look like an episode out of a 1970s-era cop show, with cheap wood paneling and inexpertly rendered suspect sketches tacked
to the walls. The parking lot outside fares little better, with a dilapidated fleet of Chevrolet patrol cruisers limping on-duty cops to call sites. The whole plaza is straight out of the institutional building handbook, devoid of personality and a constant reminder that the only thing the individual is going to do here is suffer degradation.
Background
In the late 1970s, the Morgan County Prison, located to the rear of Police Plaza, experienced an inmate riot and mutiny. For 78 hours, the convicts had control of the place,
roused to riot by inmate #27659226. The inmate in question briefly ran the prison like a nightmare out of the pages of The Lord of the Flies, and only intervention by the
National Guard allowed police to regain control of the prison. After the dust had settled, neither inmate #27659226 nor his body was found. Closer investigation revealed that the prison had no record of any inmate #27659226 ever being incarcerated. Popular opinion maintains that this is a clerical error or an example of the deplorable condition of prisons, but those who know how closely the supernatural resides to the real world often have their own hypotheses.
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