Maybe a lot of them were outside and tend to stay there like the little girl who carries the Teddy Bear. In terms of how they got infected, not really sure since we don't know how it started. It could have been in the water which they were drinking, etc.

The key is not knowing how the population got infected. Waterborne? Airborne? Food sources contaminated, etc. I mean imagine if just the food at McDonald's got infected, they serve 47 million people everyday. That would spread fast.

 

My "easy" self explanation for all that was that some of them a. Gave up and tried to kill themselves but didn't do a brain shot. b. tried to wait it out and starved to death and then well.. walker city. c. Maybe they are going somewhere other than the when you die you walkerfy scenario. They keep making such a big point of there being no bite wounds. I know it might just be to prove Jenner's point, but hey... maybe there is more to it that how far they went with this in the comics or whatever. And maybe I am still reading WAY more into this than is really going on.

 

I did think of that a bit. I gathered that chaos ensued, some prisoners got loose then the gates were locked to prevent more zone escapes. Maybe prisoners were shot and ressurected. I'm sorta going with the all hell breaking loose idea and some back and forth over control of the situation.

 

Didnt Jenner say it was one hundred and something days since the outbreak started on his video log. So it has to be close to a year maybe longer.

 

Its very easy for the prison to become over run. A gaurd or the warden could have been biten and then reported to the prison for work and then turned and started to "infect" other gaurds and prisoners. It could have been a visiting family member who was sick from "infection". And as Felicia stated most of them could have tried to kill themselves or gaurds could have shot them or the ones in the locked cells tried to isolate themselves and just simply starved. Once it starts and ecspeacially closed quarters it wouldn"t take long att all.

 

Speaking for myself, I thought there were way too many walkers at the prison. In my personal experience I've never seen a prison before in my life, so I have no idea how many prisoners and guards one prison can hold.

So I just have to say that I was surprised at how many walkers there were in this episode both inside and outside the prison.

 

And who was mowing the lawns? j/k

 

Not just at the prison, but everywhere.

 

It's been 11 months since the apocalypse started.

 

Wildfire...lol

 

Oh you better believe it!!! I looked that up too...the 47 million lol.

 

It wouldn't be my kids and I. Guess I better get me a couple rifles now....

 

A group could have went out to scout or look for supplies.They also could have tried to get the walkers off the fence and then got inside with bite wounds.

 

It's not surprising that the prison was full. Most prisons in the U.S. - particularly in the south - are running significantly over their built capacity, housing as many as three times as many prisoners as they were built for.

Given the number of zombies in riot gear, I'd say that the prison locked down when civil order started to unravel. There was an insurrection - a mix of prisoners and guards who wanted to get out of there. In the resulting battle, people got killed and came back. It grew from there.

It will be interesting to hear the tale the surviving prisoners tell. I'm afraid their presence probably means there isn't a lot of food for the group.