City/Town: • Cache |
Location Class: • Jail |
Built: • 1960 | Abandoned: • ~1970s |
Status: • Restored |
Photojournalist: • Cathy Brock |
The Cache Jail is by far the latest example of a tiny jail that was built in 1960. Its architecture resembles that of the Longdale Jail. It sits in a park in the small town. It is one of the prime examples of a calaboose in Oklahoma, a remnant of pioneer days passed. Its stories are hidden away, yet to be uncovered.
In 1976 the Comanche County Grandy jury visited the Cache Jail and a few others in this county inspecting them. They recommended that no person be detained in the jails without a jailor present, they be kept clean and in a high state of repair, proper lighting and ventilation be installed and maintained, plumbing be maintained or repaired, and an adequate supply of clean blankets and mattresses be maintained.
These sorts of rulings came out across the country, usually around the 1950s and ’60s when dozens of the small jails were useless. Many of them were not built with any sort of human comfort in mind and putting money into a jail that was hardly used at a time when county jails, police department cells and city hall cells were more common wasn’t feasible.
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Gallery Below of Cache Jail
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