Shouts to Banky for making me look this shit up. #TBP

"I left early that day to get ahead of the line at the liquor store." - favorite quote from the entire video

I’m here cause Banky Pound said it🤣🤣😂💪🏿💯

I did time there. Was a learning experience! I played football and basketball games there. Never want to go through anything of that nature again!.

I knew plenty of guys who did time here. So blessed to be out. Never again

The guy who tried to fly over the wall was my celly his name was Jew babe from Norfolk Va. He thought me how to jog.This man run all day from morning til night.Thats a true story he still locked up 40 yrs.I come in as a young boy he thought me how to respect men and never be or accept disrespect.

Banky pound bought me here 🥊🥊🥊

i can only imagine the amount of drama that went threw these "walls" .

Thank you for posting this. It was very considerate of the Ethyl corporation to produce a narrated video tour of the penitentiary before it was demolished.

"I left early to get ahead of the line at the liquor store" lol. I like when he pronounces dates.."18 and 65" etc. This is fascinating.

Excellent video. Being from Richmond, this really brings back memories and was very informative. Thanks for sharing.

"THE place to go." Thanks for this. I always wanted to know what it was like inside there. I love you 💚😼💚

I liked this. Thanks for sharing.

Enjoyed, thank you

great video, love it

At night passing by the prison you could see the inmates shadows in their cells through the lights/light of their t.v. screens

A fact that’s always misrepresented is: VA’s chair was 💯 not made by inmates....the chair, head/leg electrodes, and associated hardware, were built by the Carl Adams Electric Co in Trenton, NJ in 1909...The Adams Co. also built South Carolina’s chair.....

I worked there as a Correctional Officer in 1979. The things I’d see would never get boring. J P Mitchell was the warden then too.

19an4 and 19an5. 18an65 19an80

2x55 seconds is absolutely crazy!

My pops done time here when I was 5 years old. My mother could bring him home cooked food.

very cool video.

Banky pound brought me here 🥊 TBP 4L

I'm wondering how the man managed to climb the wall and then sit on the ceiling ?

I believe they're wrong about the chair being constructed by inmates. Almost every prison says that but it usually isn't true, it's something that gets handed down. The chair (electrical equipment, chair and all), was actually designed and constructed by a New Jersey man named Carl Adams. Adams built the electric chairs for New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina. The chairs themselves were built by a company called the Trenton Pattern Works, back in the early 1900s. There was a little controversy when Adams installed the chair in VA, back in 1908, because he got a third of the balance up-front, another third when he delivered the equipment, he got $500 for installing and was supposed to get the remaining balance upon completion of the first execution. However, the state of VA didn't execute anyone for a few months, which left Adams in a bind, as he was a small businessman who went out of pocket for the items needed. The total cost of the electric chair in 1908 was $3,800.

If I had to do time, i'd much rather do it in a place like this than a modern,sterile corporate run prison. Sounds like they allowed plenty of privileges . Dead head Inmates, those who didn't work or go to school were allowed to wander their section, play chess,cards,checkers, etc. Television, wash your clothes in buckets....Sounds odd to imagine these small things as important , but I can imagine it made their time pass quicker . These old buildings actually have some character too them...the windows alone would be a treat ...just being able to see outside would make the time less dreary . I've never been in prison so I'm simply looking at it logically ...I've been in a modern prison to visit , half hour and the place was creeping me out. Ah...the good old days...even the jails were far superior !

wow, the band room@ frames 23:15-18 still had my guitar scale charts (chart number 1 was missing) still hanging on the walls. I place them there during '84

There's a few things you'll not hear spoken about concerning this prison. Back when it was closed down archeologists went in digging around. One thing they found was that part of the prison was built right over top of a prison grave yard. Remains were found but no plaques to identify them were found. Another thing they don't tell you is when they closed Spring Street down they took the electric chair to the new (At that time) prison Greenville and fried 7 people the first 6 months of it being there. FYI. These 2 idiots down play the whole prison experience. They make it sound like a sunday school class compared to what it really was. I've known many who were there. All say it was a hell hole where guards did whatever they felt like doing to whatever prisoner!

As bad as these old dungeons seem, I’d take it over these modern, sterile panopticons any day.

If I was facing Virginia's electric chair I wouldn't fight it know that I'm going to lose

It's the amps that kill you not the volts

Value My Freedom.. Like I Value My Life.. In Swahili.. Uhuru - Freedom

Thomas Jefferson designed this prison too bad it couldn’t have been a museum

I did alot of time there.

The warden is much easier to follow and listen to than the guard, and things of that nature.

Ghost legs behind his head at 44:50

At 42:25. He talkin bout why they raised the fence to the too of each tier… Oh the inmates throw.. Blah, they like to break our windows… damn criminals… how bout the fence is also there to save the life of some1 who aint built for that shit. Someones melon splittin apart from 4th teir Is BAD

When I was a child when ever they used the electric chair! Our lights would cut off! Richmond would lie and say that wasn’t causing it but it did! It basically traumatized me because I would know what was happening! I didn’t know that the people did something wrong! I thought they were frying them for nothing!

whats a bilin??

I wonder how many ppl got bummed in there over the years...history is interesting

Who was the wall walker??

Winder = Window

Anyone know the name of the travelling prison band they are talking about at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gs56i5eI37HLYWw.html

I really enjoyed the video. The prison was obviously outdated by many of today's standards but if you had to do a serious amount of time there you did not have air conditioning or proper heat, the food was not fit for human consumption and lots of violence behind those foreboding walls that they didn't show you.Again I loved the tour but I wish the black gentleman would have spoken louder, I could barely hear him.

Last words : does this thing have a recline?

Banky Pound

My family’s Dr worked as prison Dr for 40 years

if everything in this world was free how many people would still be in prison.

shout out to Banky Pound 🥊 🥊

@bankypound you should do a review video of this aint this the wàll you was talking about

That’s my brother in law.

No Commercials! Wooooooooh!!!!

I wonder how the black guard is doing today. Good I hope, seems like a good man.

That poor Correction officer misses his job

..what is it now? here in New Zealand they make these or old mental institutions into haunted mazes or laser strike 😎 ..i love laser strike!!!

Cruel and unusual...America usually wants cruel.

Banky pound brought me here

Os it true that the inmates had counterfeit money ..the plates

46:43 Wait! WTF!? You Incarcerated Spiderman!?

This billon was divided into 4 sections. Very old billon.

A real prison when they treated inmates as adults

Around 10 years ago around 1970 or 80..wtf 😂😂😂

A lot of inmates got their checks busted by booty bandits.

back in nine teen n ninety the 4 inch main was completed allowing efficient transfer of vasoline to the prison

I find it hysterical how these days inmates complain about how they're treated and how bad prison is, it's prison, it's supposed to suck! Back when this prison was in use, I'm sure it was much worse. Prison is a deterrent just as much it is a punishment, if it was nice and fun, what would be the point?

that was messed up how they could fry people like that

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Tallk about the parties.The women the club we called it club Spring Street.And all the fake money that was leaving out the PENN.Anything you wanted you can get in Spring Street.We partied every month and alot of baby's was made in there.The C O was doing the same as inmates.if the price was write and it always was.

Every one of these folks speak so slowly. This documentary would be half as long if these people were normal

Ghosts 44:50

I know Jew baby, what about the Steed College graduates and the schools that graduated people with Bachelor's degrees.1981 500 Spring St.

worr = wire

Wtf is wrong with the guard...

Black guy thinks a football field is 300 yards long

I don’t have no respect for ah black man that works in any typa law enforcement or fought in any war after the civil war, and in 50/50 on that. The way America had and has treated us i don’t think i could stand and fight with no pilgrims. And I’m not an racist person. But em pilgrims have treated the human race in general so messed up over the years its a shame. So any black man or woman that teams up with em in any capacity to oppress why you’re the lowest of em all and your ancestors are flip’n over in their graves. (MY PERSONAL OPINION)

The black guard sounds like a woman when he speaks I thought it was a woman until I looked at my phone lol

Boring

500 sping street in Richmond va. Is the Address . Alot of poor souls 💔 died there.

Banky Pound