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Vici Jail

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Built: 1931 | Abandoned: 1940s
Status: Abandoned
Photojournalist: Cathy Brock

The Vici Jail is one of my personal favorites. It is everything a textbook pioneer jail is. A concrete, barrel-roof, single-cell structure. It is also in the “ideal” jail location, where a lot of these tiny jails were located, right under the water tower. Some evidence suggests that the jail in Vici was built in 1931 but others suggest earlier than that with some articles referencing a “Vici Jail” back in 1915.

It seems like this jail might have stopped being used sometime around the 1940s. Newspapers in 1959 detailed work on a new jail had begun, “the old one has not been used for years” assuming they were talking about this one.




Vici Jail
Emily Cowan

Emily is a two-time published author of "Abandoned Oklahoma: Vanishing History of the Sooner State" and "Abandoned Topeka: Psychiatric Capital of the World". With over two hundred published articles on our websites. Exploring since 2018 every aspect of this has become a passion for her. From educating, fighting to preserve, writing, and learning about history there is nothing she would rather do.

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Emily Cowan

Emily is a two-time published author of "Abandoned Oklahoma: Vanishing History of the Sooner State" and "Abandoned Topeka: Psychiatric Capital of the World". With over two hundred published articles on our websites. Exploring since 2018 every aspect of this has become a passion for her. From educating, fighting to preserve, writing, and learning about history there is nothing she would rather do.

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