Photo: "Watch"

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Upper floor of a former Virginia State Hospital, which was repurposed as a medium-security men's correctional facility in the 1980's. 

During operation of the correctional facility, this room was likely a multi-resource room for inmates, but when this room was part of the active hospital, this ward housed suicidal patients. This floor contained low dividing walls to give the patients a small amount of privacy, while also allowing the nurses to keep a close eye on the patients.