County Jail in a highway median

[Flint1979]

The only known place I know of this is in Norfolk County, Massachusetts along Route 128/I-95. I had always thought it was a rather strange place for a jail but I guess it isn't the worst place to put one either. Is there any other examples of this in the United States?

[tradephoric]

The only known place I know of this is in Norfolk County, Massachusetts along Route 128/I-95. I had always thought it was a rather strange place for a jail but I guess it isn't the worst place to put one either. Is there any other examples of this in the United States?

I wonder how common it is for people to turn into the jail entrance thinking it's the freeway on-ramp.

[hbelkins]

There's a place housing people that put people in jail in the median of the WK Parkway. The Madisonville Kentucky State Police post is just east of the I-69/Pennyrile Parkway interchange.

[SectorZ]

The only known place I know of this is in Norfolk County, Massachusetts along Route 128/I-95. I had always thought it was a rather strange place for a jail but I guess it isn't the worst place to put one either. Is there any other examples of this in the United States?

I wonder how common it is for people to turn into the jail entrance thinking it's the freeway on-ramp.

Never heard of it being an issue locally, but then again the GSV car rolled the dice to get some pix of it

https://goo.gl/maps/fyg6xVyW1BXNQBeg8

[kphoger]

the GSV car rolled the dice

I see a sign that says pedestrians are prohibited, but that doesn't mean cars are too.

[Max Rockatansky]

Hard to escape from a jail where you have run across I-95.

[kphoger]

Hard to escape from a jail where you have run across I-95.

That's just another reason do wait till 3 am for your jailbreak ...

[kernals12]

JG Ballard wrote a novel called Concrete Island where a man wrecks his car in a highway median and winds up trapped below all the traffic unable to see or hear him. Similar idea I guess.

[Max Rockatansky]

JG Ballard wrote a novel called Concrete Island where a man wrecks his car in a highway median and winds up trapped below all the traffic unable to see or hear him. Similar idea I guess.

Actually happened with an injured dog on CA 99:

https://weather.com/news/news/dog-rescued-california-frida

[Roadgeekteen]

Imagine just driving down I-95 and some escaped criminal is running across the road being chased by cops. How would the cops avoid being hit by a car in this case?

[Flint1979]

The only known place I know of this is in Norfolk County, Massachusetts along Route 128/I-95. I had always thought it was a rather strange place for a jail but I guess it isn't the worst place to put one either. Is there any other examples of this in the United States?

I wonder how common it is for people to turn into the jail entrance thinking it's the freeway on-ramp.

I can honestly see that happening. There's a example here in Michigan kind of different than the topic here but at exit 116 on I-75 there is a roundabout that has an entrance to a GM plant. I've driven into the plant a few times not thinking about what I was doing LMAO.

[Dirt Roads]

It's still just a two-lane road, but Orange County, North Carolina is completing a new jail complex right behind the old eastbound weigh station on US-70 northwest of Hillsborough.  The old building and westbound weigh station across the street has been an NCDMV Driver's License Office for many years.  This also continues to house a small detachment of the (now) NCDPS Motor Vehicle Enforcement (which, of course, all ties back to the old weigh station), which includes a fueling station.  It's about six miles to the "new" weigh station on I-85/I-40 between the Buckhorn and Efland exits.

Curiously, there are a still NCDOT property signs at various points along US-70 between the "Other Split" near the I-85 Connector (from Exit 161 on I-85/I-40) and Exit 170 on I-85 (by itself up there).  These all appear to be located in areas where NCDOT acquired additional property back in the early 1950s for exits along the US-70 corridor.  I've never been quite sure whether these were for an eastward extension of the US-70 Super-Two route, or the ill-proposed extension of I-85.  I suspect the former, since the old US-70 weigh station looks like a Super-Two concept.

[Flint1979]

Actually my county (Saginaw County) just built a new jail that was completed last year. Total cost around $37 million.

[XamotCGC]

There's a place housing people that put people in jail in the median of the WK Parkway. The Madisonville Kentucky State Police post is just east of the I-69/Pennyrile Parkway interchange.

Post 2?

[jp the roadgeek]

I-84 in Fishkill, NY passes between two prisons: Downstate Correctional on the west side, and Fishkill Correctional on the east side.

[cpzilliacus]

Not in the median, but the main Anne Arundel County, Maryland Detention Center is hard by (unsigned) I-595 (signed) U.S. 50/U.S. 301 just outside the corporate limits of Annapolis.