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English: Courtyard of the 1838 Halls of Justice, known as "The Tombs" prison, in New York City. The view is south with the prison on the right. The shot tower in the distance is two blocks away at 63–65 Centre Street. (See map: File:Perris Manhattan V. 1 Plate 014 publ. 1857.jpg.)

From McCabe, Jr., James D. (1872) Lights and Shadows of New York Life, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: National Publishing Company, pp. 232–33 :

The outer building occupies four sides of a hollow square, and is 253 by 200 feet in size.…

Entering through the gloomy portal upon which the sunlight never falls, the visitor is chilled with the dampness which greets him as soon as he passes into the shadow of the heavy columns. Upon reaching the inner side of the enclosure, he finds that the portion of the prison seen from the street encloses a large courtyard, in the centre of which stands a second prison, 142 feet long by 45 feet deep, and containing 148 cells. This is the male prison, and is connected with the outer building by a bridge known as the Bridge of Sighs, since it is by means of it that condemned criminals pass from their cells to the scaffold at the time of their execution..

The gallows is taken down and kept in the prison until there is need for it. Then it is set up in the courtyard near the Bridge of Sighs.…
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