Finding out the location	easy
Access	easy
Safety	unsafe
Risk of being seen	very high
General condition of the place	bad
Traces of vandalism	very many
Good place for taking pictures?	very good
Did you see other people?	none or very few

Visit date    October 14 2019 at 3 hr
Visit duration    1 hour

The cci power plant is all that remains of the old CCI prison known to locals as “The prison from hell”. CCI was a large downtown prison that was built in 1867 and was demolished in 1999. The details of this prison are truly harrowing. There was a lot of death and overcrowding, which eventually led to its closure. The city offered tours of the prison briefly between its closing-demolition. Locals who dared this tour reported the prison was “terrifying” and “spooky”. After the prison was gone, they built apartments over the old land. Those apartments are reportedly haunted and some even say if you ride by and look into the windows you can see faces lurking. All that physically remains now is the power plant portion that powered the prison during its years open. It runs underneath the highway and opens up onto the other side. The building itself is not too big, but packs a large industrial feel. There are a few large pieces of equipment, a ladder upstairs, and a jail house door covering the tunnel from under the road. It has a lot of windows, presumably to keep it well ventilated. It has been said prisoners slaved away in here in well over 100° conditions. Now, it serves as a reminder of the states not so perfect past and also as a haven for the homeless population. The grounds are littered with empty methdone bottles, needles and trash. There has been rumors it has been recently used a sex trafficking ring and facilitates a lot of crime.

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