cell block

We both reside in a cell block called East Wing.

After Downstate Correctional Facility closed in 2022, the massive job of holding and transporting hundreds of incarcerated people to prisons across the state was crammed into a single roach-and-rat-infested cell block in Green Haven, a maximum-security prison located in a rural town called Stormville.

The cell block was freezing, he told me, and the constant fear of roaches crawling inside his ears caused him not only to keep his clothes and boots on but also to keep his lights on.

When you’d arrive, they’d unload your property bags off the bus, gave you a decent mattress, bedsheets, and a pillow case, and porters inside the cell block would bring you cleaning supplies.

Inside, she and her fellow inmates strike dramatic poses reminiscent of "Chicago"’s “Cell Block Tango.”