The visitor’s entrance to Elmira Correctional Facility is right by that portico just beyond the front car in this picture.
Transcendence at the Gate
To visit an inmate at Elmira Correctional Facility at the edge of desolate Elmira, New York—a town that once held thousands of Confederate prisoners of war (young men killing and risking their lives for the …
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