In a home just outside of Atlanta in Greenville, Georgia, the front door opens to a warm living space, but through a narrow hallway at the back lies the hulking skeleton of the old Meriwether County Jail. Built in 1896 and operated until 1985, the jail once housed hundreds of prisoners, segregated by race and gender, according to homeowner Mariea Gosdin. In the tower, relics remain: a steel ring for the hangman’s noose, a trap door, and a window where the sheriff and a prisoner’s family would on

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