Colorado Experience: Imprisonment

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ม.ค. 2019
  • Initially only a single building in the middle of a 30-acre plot of land near Cañon City, Colorado’s first prison was erected in 1868 before statehood. Colorado’s history of imprisonment has taken a turbulent journey through rebellions, riots, and escapes. The story of Old Max and its architectural journey tells the story of changing attitudes towards crime, justice and punishment.
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  • @nicholasjanosy2214
    @nicholasjanosy2214 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The cool and calm delivery of the historians hide the fact that this prison was hell on earth.

    • @gachakeaoshi384
      @gachakeaoshi384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You broke the law. Why should the authorities abide the law when dealing with you?

    • @nicholasjanosy2214
      @nicholasjanosy2214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@gachakeaoshi384 USA is not a happy country. It is a “prison”. God bless.

    • @BrassStacks
      @BrassStacks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I mean, it ain't supposed to be a resort they go chill at. Are there any prisons that aren't described that way in the US? I don't think I've heard of any.

    • @nicholasjanosy2214
      @nicholasjanosy2214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@BrassStacks .................prisons are synonymous with USA.

    • @thrillsteel2252
      @thrillsteel2252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      👍🏿

  • @timothyleasure7379
    @timothyleasure7379 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I served 4 yrs there. And it's crazy cause you can still see bullet wholes in the stones and chipped stones from when the riot broke out, the dinning hall has a theatre above it we weren't allowed up there do to construction. I've seen the carvings in the stone walls. Also now there is a fence that goes around the wall. The older lady in this who was speaking in what looks to be the library is or was the librarian very nice woman, they also have a license plate factory which I worked in making plates for the state of Colorado. Truly amazing place not a place I ever want to go back to but it's amazing. The inmates back in the 40s also built skyline drive. And shelf road that leads from canon to cripple Creek a gambling town. Just some more history behind this amazing prison.

    • @mike-xn1qj
      @mike-xn1qj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I've been in the theatre. I helped build a "fence" there. All day with pick-axes and throw-bars to get one 18 inch hole in the granite. We would put the post, pour the concrete, and the next day move over 4 feet and start again. They filmed "women of San Quntin" while I was there.

    • @Na-nc6qt
      @Na-nc6qt ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Was there behind the walls 1992 and 96. Is like stepping back in time.

    • @NunYa953
      @NunYa953 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What did you do to end up there?

    • @jeanP924
      @jeanP924 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for sharing this time in history. You should consider writing a book It's very fascinating we have to share.

  • @wallacemays4842
    @wallacemays4842 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Colorado is interesting history!!!

  • @sleepyjones9625
    @sleepyjones9625 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the old PBS shows

  • @ohmeowzer1
    @ohmeowzer1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting thank you

  • @GottliebGoltz
    @GottliebGoltz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Reminds Me of the Old Territorial Prison "now a museum" in Deer Lodge, Montana.

  • @marshawoods4983
    @marshawoods4983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My grandfather was a guard in canyon city prison for years my father told me some stories that just makes me shudder!

  • @copblocker4654
    @copblocker4654 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    some of Colorados judges and cops belong there--huh Denver

    • @cedarwest37
      @cedarwest37 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cops and judge...spells
      Corruption!!!!

    • @scoremat
      @scoremat 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aurora PD comes to mind

  • @ronin472100
    @ronin472100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you “ Fifty Years” for a breath of SANITY !

  • @losaikogogreen3636
    @losaikogogreen3636 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The grey haired lady in the blue smock makes prison sound like a community college with caring guards.
    The prisoners are predators or prey. The guards are hardened by what they see & deal with.

    • @lavendersunday8712
      @lavendersunday8712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You are so right. I retired with 25 years in TDCJ and it charges you and not for the better.

    • @cedarwest37
      @cedarwest37 ปีที่แล้ว

      And corrupt!!!!!!!

    • @cedarwest37
      @cedarwest37 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lavendersunday8712 25 years of wasted life...
      WHY... you could have choose a different trade... corruption... corruption... Corruption...sad ...sad...sad...

    • @lavendersunday8712
      @lavendersunday8712 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cedarwest37 Not everyone who works for the prison is corrupt. It is however a hard profession and it’s not for everyone. Just like with anything in life the bad people/employees make it harder on everyone.

  • @shellygay4301
    @shellygay4301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My Grandfather was a Guard there in the 1940"s....so interesting!

  • @melissakrol3245
    @melissakrol3245 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting.

  • @carlnash7200
    @carlnash7200 ปีที่แล้ว

    I went on tour in the 70s. You went through the cells where the prisoners were. I remember them staring at us behind their bars.

  • @jonsey3645
    @jonsey3645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My Father did a bit in one of the prisons in the valley. He actually had time taken off of his sentence by working on a high tension power line that came through in I think the 1950s. Does anyone remember this project? From the stories that I have overheard it was a pretty deadly gamble for the inmates.

  • @marshawoods4983
    @marshawoods4983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Roy BestWas a great word and according to my father and my father was his favorite when he would come to have Sunday dinner because like I said my grandfather was a guard there for years in canyon city

    • @bbc2402
      @bbc2402 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      marsha woods
      Thank you for sharing !!!!!!!

  • @josephjakubec3171
    @josephjakubec3171 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    That lady knows NOTHING about prison and prison guards. Social workers? ,Under graduate degrees? Rehabilitation.? I can't stopped laughing. Been there.

    • @jimbojet8728
      @jimbojet8728 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That lady, is a robot! Ha ha!

    • @allandavis8201
      @allandavis8201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ora et labora, All Craig was pointing out to Joseph was his grammatical mistake, maybe not as tactfully as he could or should have done, but nonetheless it didn’t deserve your vociferous reply, what is it with people today? Why is expecting the use of the English language to be grammatically correct and spelt out in the manner laid down in the Oxford English Dictionary so wrong? Ok, so predictive text and writing comments and text messages is usually done quickly and not checked grammatically, without doubt modern conventions on “text speak” are partly to blame, as is the fact that society moves so quickly that everything is done in haste and the written English conventions go into obscurity, but on platforms like this there are no excuses for poor grammar and spelling, literacy levels in the world have gone down because poor spelling and grammar is the new “normal”, but in my book literacy is actually a good indicator of a persons personality and character, obviously we all make mistakes, I am not perfect in my use of the English language but I do strive to get it right, and pointing out a persons mistakes is a good way to help them improve.

    • @allandavis8201
      @allandavis8201 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Joseph Jakubec which Lady are you referring to?

    • @baddoopey
      @baddoopey 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ora et labor, if you react to this you should mind your grammar to..

    • @anwjuice
      @anwjuice 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually you do ha e to be part social worker to be a successful guard. I swear people think they experts on everything these days

  • @mamiemonrovia1956
    @mamiemonrovia1956 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Things haven't changed much. Blacks, 7:3 also @12:00 did anyone tell this woman that this documentary was about the history of a Supermax? Social workers indeed! Not in 1871and 4 sure not now.

  • @duaneayers6117
    @duaneayers6117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Indiana very first prison was built in 1847 and still is standing today 11/23/19 as it did in 1847 in a Town of Old Clarksville, IN. The Town of Clarksville, Indiana was founded in 1783 by Lewis & Clarksville being one of the oldest and very first Town in America's history.

  • @khunopie9159
    @khunopie9159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Colorado has the best prisons and skiing in the country!

    • @guymorris1963
      @guymorris1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Texas the biggest and best prisons.

    • @cedarwest37
      @cedarwest37 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should visit the prison... forget the skiing...

  • @icarusairways6139
    @icarusairways6139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Colorado became Eastern California in the early 1970s.

    • @hatespeech_groyper3793
      @hatespeech_groyper3793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Care to elaborate?

    • @carywest9256
      @carywest9256 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@hatespeech_groyper3793 l believe the key phrase is " The place is full of liberals".

    • @vel230
      @vel230 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep, real estate and liberal votes went up....

  • @saintracheljarodm.holy-kay2560
    @saintracheljarodm.holy-kay2560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That's interesting and disturbing at the same time....definitely answers a few questions about Colorado.
    Sorry I'm a Californian, we're used too.... so 1/3 of people in Colorado are specifically the one in canon city are or have been incarcerated, another third works in the corrections department.... That's like 67% chance a person will end up in jail! Add a few mambie pambie laws, and you now have 89% chance of breaking the law in Colorado. Those odds are greater than a single deck black jack 83.7%...

    • @MoabYoda
      @MoabYoda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That is just Canon city not the whole state. Most of the inmates in those prisons come in from other states. These are Federal prisons. The town of Canon city has essentially made imprisonment their main source of income. It was not saying 1/3 of Coloradans are in prison.

    • @saintracheljarodm.holy-kay2560
      @saintracheljarodm.holy-kay2560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No I said at one point in time 1/3 of Coloradoans have been or are incarcerated....

    • @avalynnwaller6885
      @avalynnwaller6885 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ....lol...come to Colorado on vacation---leave on probation.

  • @johncracko9683
    @johncracko9683 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Interesting and strangely twisted. This video wanders dangerously close to the concept of the glorification of the concept of incarceration. USA has 4% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoner population. Go figure.

  • @mattkaustickomments
    @mattkaustickomments 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There’s a true crime series based on prison valley- basically the proliferation of prisons there has made the area much more unsafe than it was before all the prisons and some crazy sh*t goes on around there...

    • @cedarwest37
      @cedarwest37 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cop... means c irruption...a c...a o a p...cop.!

  • @Plastpackad
    @Plastpackad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The woman do the talking, men do the working.

  • @rylanhenderson1486
    @rylanhenderson1486 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just drove by and there was prison guards in the towers and it looked like it was active

  • @camfranklin585
    @camfranklin585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is horrifying.

  • @mike-xn1qj
    @mike-xn1qj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Did my time there, mopped out the gas chamber at 19:50 one time. Kept one foot outside just in case the door swung shut. Woke up on fire, saw flying lessons from the top tier, Know a few that will stay there forever. Sad.

  • @msj.randel1496
    @msj.randel1496 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've heard of Roy Best * the old gray made & the whippings.. My late husband have Warden Wayne k. Patterson his Nick name " cool breeze" rip. He was a fair person. Mr Patterson wrote a book before he passed away. " keeper of the keys ".

  • @carloszapata310
    @carloszapata310 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Remember old max well, spent over 39 yrs in the pen, most of it at canon city.

  • @alanpeterson6224
    @alanpeterson6224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Supposedly, it was an election year when Packer went before a judge, and the judge said, " They was only 10 Democrats in Hindsale county, and you et five of 'em."

  • @YoutubeCrittic
    @YoutubeCrittic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    and now they are run for profit.

  • @synthiaseven9342
    @synthiaseven9342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Need to bring back chain gangs to work on the roads and hwy teaching them hard work skills facts

    • @johncracko9683
      @johncracko9683 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why don't you head out onto the road and get started Synthia. Here...I'll lend you a shovel...show us how it's done,

    • @rickjames9546
      @rickjames9546 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Synthia Seven stfu

  • @rickhatesmisleadia7101
    @rickhatesmisleadia7101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    13:40 "women were disproportionately punished" BS! They weren't subjected to "the old gray mare" Always some feminist crying about how bad women had it over the men! Ironic that the next thing in the clip is men rioting because they had it so much better than the women!? It was worse for them so take a hike lady and get some intelligence while you at it!

  • @sjszabo1984
    @sjszabo1984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The only remaining supermax in the United States is in Colorado.

    • @ph11p3540
      @ph11p3540 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pelican Bay, CA has a sizable supermax section that's quite active called the Special Handling Unit.

  • @brianholbig5916
    @brianholbig5916 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Edit the cc
    ... it's Cannon City and not Carlson City

  • @stevenreiss
    @stevenreiss 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i dont think the lady really knows much of the realities - virtually nothing. the next time she should watch folks waiting for buses to court all chained. i dont believe a us prison is in the business of hugs and other stuff, caring rehab etc. is really new to me. apart from that you can get cat whistles from all over the place etc. so its a wonderful experience of the worst kind.

  • @aussieatheist960
    @aussieatheist960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm all for equal opportunity! Where TF is our small wall and "house"?

  • @raymxslappedyall3660
    @raymxslappedyall3660 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    walls of justice,if that's what they call it

  • @edmundsveikutis1698
    @edmundsveikutis1698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Why do so many female academics look like experts on what ingredients should be put into a cauldron.Ime just trying to be polite.

    • @sillygoose2508
      @sillygoose2508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm thinking because they have never really been touched by evil or seen how dark some people can be goofballs just don't get it some people just can't be fixed

  • @johnnynitro7523
    @johnnynitro7523 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The early days of PRISONS FOR PROFIT...

  • @jonnonyas2691
    @jonnonyas2691 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Did my time there in the 90's. number was 61602...... was only 19. Spent time in the last man's cell to be executed in the chair, his cell had blue paint with stars all around, Believe or not ... Miss those days! Made a MAN out of me!!! Wish to visit again although I will cry..........

    • @guymorris1963
      @guymorris1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why would you want to visit that prison again ?

    • @phildouglas9086
      @phildouglas9086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We're all in prison. Most of U.S. just don't know it.

    • @phildouglas9086
      @phildouglas9086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Daavee28
      You can't even show me a place called America on any map ever made. It's all in your mind. The make believe world you live in where reality means nothing.

    • @phildouglas9086
      @phildouglas9086 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Daavee28
      ...and as if you had anything to do with you being born in North America. How in the hell can you brag about it.

    • @catholiccrusader5328
      @catholiccrusader5328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jon I'm glad your incarceration experience made you a mature person; good for you, sir. I only wished that similar would have happened to my stepdad; he actually grew to like being imprisoned. Eventually the poor man was murdered. I hate prisons but worked in some of them as part of my church prison ministry.

  • @jasonhansen782
    @jasonhansen782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why don't they have the incarnated fix it..also teach a trade..

  • @jaqgator5641
    @jaqgator5641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Build more prisons , give people work!

  • @dennisrandolph6466
    @dennisrandolph6466 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Our government carries no justice. This made me sick.

    • @anwjuice
      @anwjuice 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn hipesters. I guess we should just try to rehab people who kill. Infact they can come parole at your house

  • @chip63us
    @chip63us 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SIN, criminals , don't make excuses for the criminals

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sighs you do know that proportionally there are more christians in jail than atheists dont ya ? Strange that huh ?

    • @cedarwest37
      @cedarwest37 ปีที่แล้ว

      You could be one..
      Just getting up in morning....

  • @andrewkennedy5894
    @andrewkennedy5894 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lock em up!!!!!!!

  • @phildouglas9086
    @phildouglas9086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Derr yonk pork.
    Just chiming in with childish remarks here.

    • @phildouglas9086
      @phildouglas9086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Coy Leigh
      If you beat them, they call the cops. So, yeah.

  • @raymxslappedyall3660
    @raymxslappedyall3660 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    .

  • @wayneakins7850
    @wayneakins7850 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Baby sitters

  • @guymorris1963
    @guymorris1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Corrections officers not guards.

  • @simplesecretof
    @simplesecretof 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rocky Mountain "PBS" = "Public Bull Shit". Heads up Joseph Jakubec.

  • @danilorainone406
    @danilorainone406 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    the occasional goof gets messed up for only half his fault,or not his atall, most,decline early in life to follow rules customs,morals,cannot be taught,true then true now ladies, go spend the summer at huntsville,see what you can do,

  • @johnstoneb
    @johnstoneb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is what you get when you dont include men in the narration or discussion. Hug a thug mentality becomes the ridiculous narrative.

    • @somniumisdreaming
      @somniumisdreaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude get over youself

    • @johnstoneb
      @johnstoneb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@somniumisdreaming classic white knighting. I expect nothing less!

  • @charleskeil4095
    @charleskeil4095 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    And then there was sanctuary Colorado and the final ruin of the state

  • @coldwater8326
    @coldwater8326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    if i was in charge of a womens prison id just flog them just for fun .

  • @ddc4531
    @ddc4531 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    KKK

  • @Kevin-ix4qz
    @Kevin-ix4qz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stop breaking the law a holes!

  • @richardprovost4401
    @richardprovost4401 ปีที่แล้ว

    So tell me something I don't know???

  • @mattkaustickomments
    @mattkaustickomments 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There’s a true crime series based on prison valley- basically the proliferation of prisons there has made the area much more unsafe than it was before all the prisons and some crazy sh*t goes on around there...