It was the bare, fluorescent-lit concrete platform outside that added to the suggestion of imprisonment.

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Their main courtyard includes a swimming pool with a concrete platform in the middle and a subterranean subwoofer.

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The cell is a small, windowless room painted a nondescript beige, with a gun-metal gray floor and concrete sleeping platform.

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