For a time after 9/11 rocked the nation, the clock face of the North Central Correctional Institute read 9:11. Only a recent windstorm knocked the minute hand to half past.
Lt. Ken Sena, who has become the prison's ad hoc historian has given me a tour of the facility twice while I was in the process of writing my book. The prison was originally established in 1902 as a farm colony for the insane. It remained as such until the late 1970's when the Department of Corrections purchased the land and redeveloped the asylum as a prison. As Lt. Sena points out, very little has changed in the buildings other than a fresh coat of paint and new window glass- a well preserved piece of asylum history.
Lt. Ken Sena, who has become the prison's ad hoc historian has given me a tour of the facility twice while I was in the process of writing my book. The prison was originally established in 1902 as a farm colony for the insane. It remained as such until the late 1970's when the Department of Corrections purchased the land and redeveloped the asylum as a prison. As Lt. Sena points out, very little has changed in the buildings other than a fresh coat of paint and new window glass- a well preserved piece of asylum history.
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