Then It Got Interesting!

The barn out back had old things from the prison. The whipping bench, on which inmates were strapped down and whipped with the leather straps lying across the bench.

An actual bit, for when the inmates mouthed off.
The round things are leg irons, called an "Oregon boot."

The hearse used for inmates buried on the grounds (meaning no family.)
And, last, the actual bedsheets tied into a rope actually used by an inmate to escape.

The prison artifacts were fascinating, in a gruesome way.