Looks like there's glass around the gate they use to pass items in and out (to keep an inmate from reaching through the bars when the guard is close) and the rest of the cell is open bars.

Although in Tommy's case - both his parents were murdered by gangsters, he was raised in a gothic Gilded-Age brothel by an incestuous woman with delusions of grandeur who also filled his head with elaborate stories, he was suddenly whisked away during a violent shoot-out by a creepy guardian angel with half a face who…