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title: Rotary Jails and Accidental Amputations — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/rotary-jails-and-accidental-amputations/
date: 2017-09-19
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# Rotary Jails and Accidental Amputations

In Crawfordsville, Indiana, there’s a rotary jail: an invention that, with hindsight, should probably never have been built. But it was, here and in other towns across the United States. It might have sounded like a good idea on paper, but in practice, it had a few unfortunate problems… including occasional accidental amputations.