From the outside, Blackgate Penitentiary looks like any other correctional facility you’ve seen before. Its trigger-happy guards patrol its perimeter, and will freely gun down trespassers on sight. Its towering masonry walls are unscalable, even for the Batgirl, and its chain-link fences are lined with barbed wire. Several blinding searchlights sweep up and down the yard that links the outside world to the front entrance, and so, in order to access the imposing prison as it appears in Gotham Knights, I guide Barbara Gordon past the barricades through an underground tunnel. And from the inside, Blackgate Penitentiary looks nothing like any other correctional facility you’ve seen before.
