1971 was a turbulent time in this country. Guys being drafted to fight in Vietnam. Protests against the war in Vietnam, civil rights protests, equal right protests. Political turmoil. It was a mess all the way around. I was only 16 in’71, but was aware of everything going on. The prison systems were not in the headlines. I’m watching this documentary for the first time at the age of 67. It’s eye opening. The warden was way ahead of his times. Rehabilitation was, and still is necessary. Very little has changed. Unfortunately.
I was thinking the same thing . I think now California is starting a new way of prison they are calling it prisnyland the inmates call it its modeled after the way they do things in Norway ? Lot of rehabilitation no cells looks like college dorms seams to make sense? I think .? Get rehabilitated or get punished ? But what if someone killed your loved one do u want him to be treated good going to classes learning new things?
All the tyrants cops in the 1970-90 came out of Korean and Vietnam, wars or conflict. And most of them have PTSD and they became cops or sheriffs around the country and that’s how you get the ones before cameras that beat the shit out of people and that’s how you got the prison population in the 80s exploding.
@OverLord 666 most people have the capacity to do the right thing. I’m thinking that was his point buddy. I grew up with less, and their are definitely better hustles then robbing a working family out there..
@OverLord 666 Really? How about being honest and tell someone your problem. I know it's not easy especially when nobody is listening to you. Robbing to feed your "family" gets you jail time when you get caught. And don't even try to sound right with this narrative. If you are the only person the kids or family had and you got caught, what becomes of them???
@OverLord 666 then your put in prison leaving your family to fend for themselves while you get 3 meals a day there's consequences for our actions choose wisely
It's so strange seeing these inmates. They're almost all good looking men, clean cut and articulate. Clearly the systems gotten worse when you look at inmates today, some are tattooed all over their face, some are sickly looking, inarticulate and disrespectful....and they have a reason to be upset.
Drugs are taking people to VERY BAD places nowadays. So many affected, trading a small piece of their soul for every poke, puff or pill. So many people are affected.
This is in da 1960s.. late Dam A Prison Documentary I have not Seen.. ya ajabu.. Fantastic in Swahili.. Value My freedom Like I Value my Life.. Hope all innocent people are set Free.. Uhuru..
I spent 14 years at Forest Haven Asylum from 1957 to 1971 in Laurel, Maryland. It was a mental institution for the intellectually disabled, mentally retarded, physically and socially disabled. In 1967, 1968, and 1969 combined, I spent a total of 17 days of solitary confinement in Hemlock Detention Center also in Laurel, Maryland for sassing a counselor and running away. I never sassed the counselor. Hemlock was like Buck County Jail in Pennsylvania, hard iron bed, hard floor, one toilet, hard iron lock doors, white color walls, bread and water for food, total isolation, and I even drinked out of the toilet. I even had a rat that crawled over me but I managed to kill it and flushed it in the toilet. I had to get shots for rat bites. I am 67 years old now. Forest Haven closed in 1994. It opened in June 16, 1925.
@jimmydean as I was reading his comment, it sounded plausible and then I got to the "I'm now 67" part. It doesn't add up when you factor in the dates he was there and his round about date of birth.
This warden was way before his time…he made a lot of great points. I was born in 1972, this was so fascinating. Also sad to see how little our criminal justice/penal system has progressed in the past 49 years. We gotta do better!
I only did a few years and it took a huge toll on my conversational skills and emotional integrity. I used to be able to hold an articulate conversation, now I tend to have trouble holding thoughts together and have trouble conveying the thoughts I'm trying to get out, like I can't seem to find the right words. I remember going for months without speaking at all, just having conversations with myself in my head. Now I'm the worst when it comes to keeping in contact with people, I don't like texting or being on the phone because I always run out of things to say within a few minutes so I figure why bother it's a hassle. I used to have alot of friends that I'd talk to daily and now only a couple people put up with me ignoring them or not replying for a month.
That’s very strange you just described me to a tee. But I’ve never been in prison. Especially how you don’t text back cause you don’t have what to say so you figure why bother talking to people and keeping relationships. It’s really fucked up
You described me, and I am free. Sometimes I go so long without talking to another person that when I open my mouth I fumble the words. May I ask at what age were you sentenced? If it was prior to age 25, a time before the brain fully physically matures, that might explain your circumstances. You definitely have some trauma. Such a thing does not go away with one therapy session.
I always get a kick from prison documentaries. The prisoners always "warn" us "normal" people that prison is bad. LOL - no shit, Sherlock - of course it's horrible - it's prison - it's supposed to be.
I was thinkin how these guys are talkin about equality, justice, and how they shouldnt be locked up like they didnt commit a crime being out as a US citizen. Wth?
I bet you are a cop , or have a government job and were born on a golden spoon with zero compassion and are part of the criminal syndicate government who are the real criminals just like the cops now are the biggest criminal gang in America , remember , this is just a school for all humanity and those who treat others as less end up in a real warm climate after our time here on earth , our only choice is by who we are in our hearts towards others before ourselves here where we are all prisoners on earth
Never been to prison but my brothers have and I heard all the stories. Why not give them decent food, why not provide them their own space that doesn't resemble a animal cage. Why not allow men to be with their women as long as their not procreating. Imagine the reduced stress level from treating them with basic human dignity. I get it some of them did horrendous things but not everyone in jail is a violent criminal.
Take a walk around any ghetto and you will see people that have not committed any crimes living worse off than these cry babies. Talk about living conditions...fed and clothed, washed and shaved...
Yeah how about no. If you're gonna behave like an animal we're gonna treat you like one. Criminals should be grateful that society expends just what it costs to keep them alive. That itself is charity. No one owes them shit. "Make me feel comfortable or I'll just get out and hurt you again" Haha, fuck you. If that's your attitude, here's a bullet.
@@nachowifi9674 Nothing about our lives in this place and era of time is civilized. Quite the opposite. Showing human compassion is one of the few ways to counteract our own wrong doings in the form of greed, lust & bigotry. Your lack of compassion will follow you to your end.
I’ll never forget being at western state penitentiary being in that cell that was 4ftx9ft in the hot summers and cold winters year after year does something to a man that never leaves you
I absolutely hated being locked up during the winter. With only 1 of those Bob Barker thin a$s blankets and the socks they provided had holes in them, sometimes you wouldn't get socks if they ran out.
@@TheArmageddonCafe yea the sign made me cringe. Like y’all left that up to show the world like it’s ok? Literally stating you are gonna work to death every day of your sentence to kill time. They need them to work to make money.. literally slave labor and they have it on full display with a “quirky” big sign. 🤦🏾♀️
Too bad more people like this warden don't exist today. Now people who have views such as his are accused of being liberal, soft, etc...when its not about that, it's just being human to each other, using logic, looking at a failed system and wondering how we can improve.
jesus h. christ look at how thin everybody was back then!!! nowadays at least half the people in this clip would be overweight if not downright obese. even behind bars!
I've been to jail more than a few times, and everytime it's for things people shouldn't be locked away for, like traffic violations or Marijuana (which is now legal where I live). But I was put into horrible conditions that were severely over crowded and very violent. I was in Phoenix jail more than once under Joe Arpaio. I was in Durango jail both times that conditions were so bad in that the inmates sued the state for it and won. I was put in with people who did much worse things than me, but I was punished and treated as though I did things just as bad. The days take forever to pass. Each day feels like 2 or 3. The jail staff treats you like garbage. They fed us only twice a day, neither times was it enough, and half the time you didn't even know what you were eating for dinner. We just called it slop. It's scary we live in a country that for just doing minor things wrong you get taken right out of society and locked away. Judges hand down double digit year sentences like its nothing in america. We have for profit prisons. Of course they're going to keep them full, people get paid for it. So many people I met in there for things super minor. Victimless crimes. We have an overzealous want to lock people away in america. Murders, rapists, robbers, dangerous people, sure, lock them up. But we need to ease up on punishment for victimless crimes.
Rehabilitated? That's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because, to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit. PAROLED
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Warden Case seems like a good dude; smart and contemplative. Not many wardens like that in ANY prisons nowadays, even minimum security camps. But it's probably the inmates cynically abusing privileges the system gave them and the administration becoming jaded by it that made things get so bad. And of course the overcrowding caused by the War On Drugs didn't help things.
That's because life is differnt, in your mind. 😊 Your needed for protecting, those without sanders, of your liked world, of growing right, new changes, of control. You builded a stand, for your land. 😊 Your mind want, and survive, to your rules, some don't want to want. Others on the out of prison, not as the open mind.
White and middle class, the black the poor… Well they both wouldn’t be in prison if one had it better than the other, The mindset of ppl back then was crazy lol
1971. Drug laws are dropping but what do these guys have? A record, that's what. Menial jobs after, probably for the rest of their lives. Did some belong there? Yup. But drug crime will always drag more people in. Check out an inmate run channel. You'll get just as good a view.
Wow its crazy how thin they are compared to the new inmates now .Food has never been great but it's a jail what you expect steaks and porkchops.Theres jobs in jail and prisons but not any job that can teach you a skill you can use to change in the outside .Institutions are just schools to become a better criminal and once in the outside you are stereotype and and the roadblocks to change are hard .Who's going to hire and ex felon whose going to rent to an ex felon etc.I understand you cant save all felons but imagine if you were to help change at least 40 to 50 percent of these individuals instead of just forgetting about them .Remember a lot of inmates are going to get out so what are the chances the crime they commit will not affect you taxes,victim.Theres a big difference between a rapist and a guy that sell drugs .
Theres a report by the district attorney of Philadelphia from 1969, about the high numbers of gang rape in the 3 Philadelphia jails during 1966-1968, gang rape, racial violence and tension was very high, partly because of the racial situation in the free world. This jail wasn't far from Philadelphia but it seems much safer and calmer than those in Philly. The report is available online as a pdf, its by Alan Davies D.A.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Sounds like these guys forgot why they are there in the first place, robbing, raping, murdering, and then they expect a summer camp!?
@MB Q: If these ppl in prison are so smart/intelligent as you say, don’t they know crime doesn’t pay? They just got caught? They were supposed to get caught. Stop attempting to justify wrong.
@Donnell Okafor this is a very accurate statement. I did a total of about 17 years in NYS prisons, Attica, Greenhaven, Elmira, etc etc. I am very intelligent, & met alot of intelligent men in prison. But we were all lacking in the needed maturity, wisdom, & understanding to do what what necessary to make it in the free world. Some of this is due to our upbringing, but also because of our continuing to make bad choices after more bad choices. Sometimes it is hard to not put ourselves in bad situations, especially when you have nothing, have that burn in your belly from hunger, jealousy of watching others have & do the things you cant, etc etc. But the reality is crime rarely pays, & typically costs you more. With wisdom & maturity we are able to better evaluate our options, & then make a more educated decision. I am now 42 years old, been out of prison & trouble for some 10 years. I am a successful contractor, & make good money, live well, pay my bills, own cars, go on trips with my wife & children, etc etc. And I'm Latino white mix, a multiple convicted felon, labeled Latin King gang member, have tattoos, etc, & was able to make it. I had to stop making excuses & maybe work twice as hard as the next man who didn't have my background, but I accepted this because it is the consequences for my own choices. But I will not die with nothing, & being a nobody in a cell or under a bench somewhere. It can be done, because I'm doing it.
@@corvettefever360 Good for you man! You need to want it, the change that is. Hoping that you and all of your loved ones are remaining healthy and safe during this time of Global Covid Craziness. Peace
When a guy goes to prison and complains about the food, the boredom, the CO’s, and the system. What does a guy think? It’s supposed be the Holiday in? It’s supposed be comfortable? Yet that same dude did a crime against some one or something in order to get there. What about his victims? Lucky for most inmates, the majority of society doesn’t get their way. Many many felons would be executed immediately for some of the crimes like Murder, rape, child molestation, etc. Yet, even with serial killers we have leniency. How is does a convicted serial killer get a pass? Why is that person put to rest right after the conviction?
Heard a lot about how the inmates feel about prison….. I wonder if they considered how the victims of their crimes felt as they were committing the crime!? Probably not….. the man who always nothing is always the man who wants to share.
I used to dress up like a bear... And ride motorcycles..in the Russian Circus.. After I saved the fat lady from a grease fire.. I was granted my freedom..then I went to prison.
So I don't think anyone is arguing the fact that jail/prison does not work for many offenders. So then what should we do with convicted murderers rapist child pedophile and killers? Sadly US cannot take ever individual aside and provide the one on one rehab that the violent offender needs. There isn't enough resources and manpower to do this..many violent offenders regardless of the rehab they get will still be violent and commit future crimes. I think I'm theory it sounds great! Rehab everyone last resort prison. But it is easy to say what the US justice system "should do". But it is entirely different story when you try to execute it.
Are zoo’s really animal prison? Did the animals commit crimes? Why has there always been that comparison? Why should criminals be treated “at least as good as the animals in zoo’s “?? So called “animals” are better than most humans, especially criminals!! Who’s really the “animals”. I’m not even really an animal enthusiast type person.... it’s just facts.
Times are changing California is adopted Norways way of incarceration. They look like college dorms now tons of rehabilitation. U come out with a college degree now !! lol "prisnyland" is what the inmates call It !! Seriously look it up .
@@roncur i have everytime i get caught .im in favor of manning up .im saying people shouldn't be incarcerated for drugs.narcotics make up around 90% of all jails
did not know that in those inmates could wear own clothes , in the UK and Ireland male and female prisoners wear own clothes not like the idea of uniform. You committed wrong , broke the law and punishment should be awarded yes , but all prisoners even the hard core criminals deserve to be treated humanely and just and deserve better conditions when serving time . Even to this very day they still have not seen much of prison reform been decades of this , now in the West with this record heat wave prisoners are suffering terribly again baking to death of course . They are human after all and should be treated as such. I am more interested in male prisons than women , and do please do everything not to find yourself there in the first place
This was by FAR the best prison documentary I've ever seen so many good points. People back than we're such intellectuals yet so deep.
1971 was a turbulent time in this country. Guys being drafted to fight in Vietnam. Protests against the war in Vietnam, civil rights protests, equal right protests. Political turmoil. It was a mess all the way around. I was only 16 in’71, but was aware of everything going on. The prison systems were not in the headlines. I’m watching this documentary for the first time at the age of 67. It’s eye opening. The warden was way ahead of his times. Rehabilitation was, and still is necessary. Very little has changed. Unfortunately.
California was rokn and rokn . Violence taboo
I was thinking the same thing . I think now California is starting a new way of prison they are calling it prisnyland the inmates call it its modeled after the way they do things in Norway ? Lot of rehabilitation no cells looks like college dorms seams to make sense? I think .? Get rehabilitated or get punished ? But what if someone killed your loved one do u want him to be treated good going to classes learning new things?
All the tyrants cops in the 1970-90 came out of Korean and Vietnam, wars or conflict. And most of them have PTSD and they became cops or sheriffs around the country and that’s how you get the ones before cameras that beat the shit out of people and that’s how you got the prison population in the 80s exploding.
😊😊😊
Yep. They set up a lot of dudes to get busted back then. Documented and acknowledged with evidence. Turbulent is right and corrupt to no end.
To avoid all this unbearable conditions, please do the right thing!
Great I found this channel. You have earned a new sub.
@OverLord 666 most people have the capacity to do the right thing. I’m thinking that was his point buddy. I grew up with less, and their are definitely better hustles then robbing a working family out there..
@OverLord 666
Really? How about being honest and tell someone your problem. I know it's not easy especially when nobody is listening to you.
Robbing to feed your "family" gets you jail time when you get caught. And don't even try to sound right with this narrative. If you are the only person the kids or family had and you got caught, what becomes of them???
@@Kenlydford Exactly..... thinking robbing another family to feed his is the way out.
@OverLord 666 then your put in prison leaving your family to fend for themselves while you get 3 meals a day there's consequences for our actions choose wisely
@OverLord 666 there's many opportunities in the US to get food and assistance
It's so strange seeing these inmates. They're almost all good looking men, clean cut and articulate. Clearly the systems gotten worse when you look at inmates today, some are tattooed all over their face, some are sickly looking, inarticulate and disrespectful....and they have a reason to be upset.
Drugs are taking people to VERY BAD places nowadays. So many affected, trading a small piece of their soul for every poke, puff or pill. So many people are affected.
This is in da 1960s.. late
Dam A Prison Documentary
I have not Seen..
ya ajabu.. Fantastic in Swahili..
Value My freedom Like I Value my Life..
Hope all innocent people are set Free..
Uhuru..
Says 1971
I spent 14 years at Forest Haven Asylum from 1957 to 1971 in Laurel, Maryland. It was a mental institution for the intellectually disabled, mentally retarded, physically and socially disabled. In 1967, 1968, and 1969 combined, I spent a total of 17 days of solitary confinement in Hemlock Detention Center also in Laurel, Maryland for sassing a counselor and running away. I never sassed the counselor. Hemlock was like Buck County Jail in Pennsylvania, hard iron bed, hard floor, one toilet, hard iron lock doors, white color walls, bread and water for food, total isolation, and I even drinked out of the toilet. I even had a rat that crawled over me but I managed to kill it and flushed it in the toilet. I had to get shots for rat bites. I am 67 years old now. Forest Haven closed in 1994. It opened in June 16, 1925.
@jimmydean as I was reading his comment, it sounded plausible and then I got to the "I'm now 67" part. It doesn't add up when you factor in the dates he was there and his round about date of birth.
@jimmydean thank you for having common sense
not something want to declare to the world
@@jmartin4204 OP is lying
Well done for surving, write it down or do a pod cast with family and people who survived. Good luck. ✌️☘️
Wow these guys now are either in their 70s 80s or deceased
Would be cool if A follow up Documentary was made..
Check out Kev mac videos channel, he interviews lots of them
@@flyinglizards80 can you link the page
@@stephonwilliams5232 just goto TH-cam search and type in kev Mac video
@@stephonwilliams5232 I can't get it to post correctly. Search moster kody and og cutes interview
1971 - the year I was born…. into a prison planet called Earth.
2021 - the year I ask….
how much worse can it get?
Exactly. People really don’t realize that Earth is a prison planet. We’re fourth dimensional beings trapped in this third dimensional reality.
Break on through the other side !
@@lion5452 to?
What kind of hurt you dealing with Bro! Get some help my friend!
This warden was way before his time…he made a lot of great points. I was born in 1972, this was so fascinating. Also sad to see how little our criminal justice/penal system has progressed in the past 49 years. We gotta do better!
Wow, 49 years ago, as old as me.
same here
Damn we getting old 😁
@OverLord 666 gen X
I hear you on that. Just turned 42 myself this past end of Oct. Take care 😎✌
Best decade for Music.. in my opinion..
I only did a few years and it took a huge toll on my conversational skills and emotional integrity. I used to be able to hold an articulate conversation, now I tend to have trouble holding thoughts together and have trouble conveying the thoughts I'm trying to get out, like I can't seem to find the right words. I remember going for months without speaking at all, just having conversations with myself in my head. Now I'm the worst when it comes to keeping in contact with people, I don't like texting or being on the phone because I always run out of things to say within a few minutes so I figure why bother it's a hassle. I used to have alot of friends that I'd talk to daily and now only a couple people put up with me ignoring them or not replying for a month.
That’s very strange you just described me to a tee. But I’ve never been in prison. Especially how you don’t text back cause you don’t have what to say so you figure why bother talking to people and keeping relationships. It’s really fucked up
Don't they help you guys to rehabilitate
@@styrofoamx229yea me too dam that’s crazy 😅
You described me, and I am free. Sometimes I go so long without talking to another person that when I open my mouth I fumble the words. May I ask at what age were you sentenced? If it was prior to age 25, a time before the brain fully physically matures, that might explain your circumstances. You definitely have some trauma. Such a thing does not go away with one therapy session.
1970: it doesn't work
50 years later and all we've done is double down.
I always get a kick from prison documentaries. The prisoners always "warn" us "normal" people that prison is bad. LOL - no shit, Sherlock - of course it's horrible - it's prison - it's supposed to be.
I was thinkin how these guys are talkin about equality, justice, and how they shouldnt be locked up like they didnt commit a crime being out as a US citizen. Wth?
These criminals are asking strangers to care more about them than they care about themselves or their families care about them.
How bout that
They don't give a shit about their victims.
in over 50 years ago since this film, these kind of people are still preaching "POOR ME" these type of people never ever really change...
I bet you are a cop , or have a government job and were born on a golden spoon with zero compassion and are part of the criminal syndicate government who are the real criminals just like the cops now are the biggest criminal gang in America , remember , this is just a school for all humanity and those who treat others as less end up in a real warm climate after our time here on earth , our only choice is by who we are in our hearts towards others before ourselves here where we are all prisoners on earth
You never change
Great Channel you got here!
Had an uncle that was in the old mansfield in ohio around about this time. He said it was no joke!
19:20 wish we still had people who thought like this amazing way to describe it
This is when jail and prison populous still somewhat had respect for one another.
*"When i was 14, i thought I'd be old when i was 16"*
Im in my 30s now. That hit me like a wall
Never been to prison but my brothers have and I heard all the stories. Why not give them decent food, why not provide them their own space that doesn't resemble a animal cage. Why not allow men to be with their women as long as their not procreating. Imagine the reduced stress level from treating them with basic human dignity. I get it some of them did horrendous things but not everyone in jail is a violent criminal.
Why dont they just stop breaking the law and they can enjoy good food among other creature comforts those of us that are civilized get to enjoy?
Take a walk around any ghetto and you will see people that have not committed any crimes living worse off than these cry babies. Talk about living conditions...fed and clothed, washed and shaved...
Yeah how about no. If you're gonna behave like an animal we're gonna treat you like one. Criminals should be grateful that society expends just what it costs to keep them alive. That itself is charity. No one owes them shit. "Make me feel comfortable or I'll just get out and hurt you again" Haha, fuck you. If that's your attitude, here's a bullet.
@@nachowifi9674 Nothing about our lives in this place and era of time is civilized. Quite the opposite. Showing human compassion is one of the few ways to counteract our own wrong doings in the form of greed, lust & bigotry. Your lack of compassion will follow you to your end.
@@SincereSentinel / Your post is a little confusing. Are you, or were you incarcerated?
I was born in 1971, geez I'm old.
Never seen a warden be so direct and understanding. He has solutions and advice in a time way ahead of everyone else.
Guy talking at 8:30 is like someone you'd meet today he's not a creature of the early 70s
I’ll never forget being at western state penitentiary being in that cell that was 4ftx9ft in the hot summers and cold winters year after year does something to a man that never leaves you
I absolutely hated being locked up during the winter. With only 1 of those Bob Barker thin a$s blankets and the socks they provided had holes in them, sometimes you wouldn't get socks if they ran out.
The wall
I've done time myself and he's absolutely right, all you can do is look at them and take it .
You should've fought them off. How many times did you take it?
@@bigjerm1631 Lmmfao
Another great video 👍
to kill time, work it to death. i love that statement on the wall.
It's just creepily too close to the Nazi concentration camps' signage that "Work sets you free".
@@TheArmageddonCafe yea the sign made me cringe. Like y’all left that up to show the world like it’s ok? Literally stating you are gonna work to death every day of your sentence to kill time. They need them to work to make money.. literally slave labor and they have it on full display with a “quirky” big sign. 🤦🏾♀️
Great Documentary, Awesome Warden, good human being....
LEGENDARY CHANNEL
Bro this was over 50 years ago? Life is weird
Too bad more people like this warden don't exist today. Now people who have views such as his are accused of being liberal, soft, etc...when its not about that, it's just being human to each other, using logic, looking at a failed system and wondering how we can improve.
jesus h. christ look at how thin everybody was back then!!! nowadays at least half the people in this clip would be overweight if not downright obese. even behind bars!
The government has allowed out marketplace to be overtaken by cheap and easy processed foods. That in itself is a crime.
@@avalondreaming1433 not only that it subsidizes them. The corn subsidies are ridiculous
@@samuelmarques7966 It's killing people.
And hollering they were not getting fed!!!
I noticed that also. I only saw 2 fat guys. The warden. And 1 prisoner. But everyone smokes. Damn.
@@avalondreaming1433 It's also causing fertility issues. All part of the depopulation agenda.
I love this documentary
I was depicted in the film. I'm an old ass man now. 28:24
Sheesh surprised u can use technology
@Abrakus99 , That is a trip man ha. Did you ever think you would see this footage?
your physical appearance has really gone to the dogs
So cool to see your comment. Is that your mother that was speaking directly after? Her speaking broke my heart a bit.
Why were you behind bars?
I was 18 in 1971 A judge said USMC or state prison.Went into USMC missed Vietnam,got my GED,completed 2 year enlistment was honorably discharged.🙏
Lol dude was like.... come on just give us a little paint thinner
I've been to jail more than a few times, and everytime it's for things people shouldn't be locked away for, like traffic violations or Marijuana (which is now legal where I live). But I was put into horrible conditions that were severely over crowded and very violent. I was in Phoenix jail more than once under Joe Arpaio. I was in Durango jail both times that conditions were so bad in that the inmates sued the state for it and won. I was put in with people who did much worse things than me, but I was punished and treated as though I did things just as bad. The days take forever to pass. Each day feels like 2 or 3. The jail staff treats you like garbage. They fed us only twice a day, neither times was it enough, and half the time you didn't even know what you were eating for dinner. We just called it slop. It's scary we live in a country that for just doing minor things wrong you get taken right out of society and locked away. Judges hand down double digit year sentences like its nothing in america. We have for profit prisons. Of course they're going to keep them full, people get paid for it. So many people I met in there for things super minor. Victimless crimes. We have an overzealous want to lock people away in america. Murders, rapists, robbers, dangerous people, sure, lock them up. But we need to ease up on punishment for victimless crimes.
I knew right away this was in Pennsylvania but I thought it was Eastern State. Crazy to think this is a jail and not a state prison
Same hear. I thought it was Holmes burg prison which looks just like this but was the city jail for Philadelphia and it was extremely way worse
The man at about 8:00 is just right. So correct. But nothing has changed and its the same you know
Wow 1971, your good man☄️
Big Herc busting vintage cheeks
With his lisp n gay slpeech
@@chilltonychill1384 😂😂
@Donnell Okafor 😬
Big Herc alright. Trying to do some good in this world. And make a little bread 🍞 also. It is America.
7:00. When dude brought him his coffee, dude looked like he mighta did something to his coffee🤣
Stirred it with his Johnson
@@santaclaus3077 ouch! that would burn your weiner head
That warden was a "convict warden" (one that is sort of "on their side" in a sense) so he's probably right to trust them
@@angelozicarelli541 that’s how McDonald’s got sued. Dude spilt his coffee, burnt his Dick. Looked like a Mickey D’s French fry.
This channel is crazy
Warden, how can you be so obtuse?
You must mean acute
@viziunz13 V13 Let's ask her. Maybe she knows. What say there, fussy-britches. Feel like talkin'?
Rehabilitated? That's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because, to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit. PAROLED
Shawshank Redemption....damn good movie
I would like to know were are they now....
KEEPING IT REAL🤔🤔👍
Nothing wrong with prison, If you don't like it, obey the law !
Ignorance is bliss..
19:51 Apparently the guards who caused the 1981 New Mexico prison riot 10 years after this didn't get the message
Guards don't care. They didn't have to pay to clean it up the taxpayers did. This documentary is before 1980. Guards don't put people in prison
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Approx 56.6 Billion Spent on Prisons /Corrections.. In 2019..
For Some Prison was the Best Thing Dat happened 2 them ..
Malcolm X Leading Example..
For Others The Worst.. Thing
Quite Clearly - Year of Imprisonment
Length - Innocent/Guilty - Type - Colour - Offence - Country - State - Language Plays A Part in Conditions and Treatment..
Value My Freedom Like I Value My Life..
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Those young men would be in their 70's now (if they are even alive).
every guy i know who got out of prison went back they loved it no work no bills no worries never heard them say anything bad about prison
Warden Case seems like a good dude; smart and contemplative. Not many wardens like that in ANY prisons nowadays, even minimum security camps. But it's probably the inmates cynically abusing privileges the system gave them and the administration becoming jaded by it that made things get so bad. And of course the overcrowding caused by the War On Drugs didn't help things.
Great points 👍🏾
White and blacks together talking in a cell..this time is over now
That's because life is differnt, in your mind. 😊 Your needed for protecting, those without sanders, of your liked world, of growing right, new changes, of control. You builded a stand, for your land. 😊 Your mind want, and survive, to your rules, some don't want to want. Others on the out of prison, not as the open mind.
Whoever you are, you be having the 💩!👍👍
White and middle class, the black the poor… Well they both wouldn’t be in prison if one had it better than the other, The mindset of ppl back then was crazy lol
10:32 “Tge breeding ground for homosexuality is jail” now 60 years later it’s Rapid
GodBless all you guys
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The maturity level of inmates was much higher then and the jails treated inmates then as adults...can't even have a cigarette in jail nowadays
Lol.. Even prison inmates back then looked and talked different.!!! Most of todays Society has fallen to the sewers!!
22:20 Is that Artie from The Sopranos?
ReAl OGs not these 23 year old who claim to be ....
Act like an animal, get treated like an animal. It's not difficult to understand.
1971 or 2021, don't like being locked up then obey the laws. Or jus don't cry bout it please ur depressing me
1971. Drug laws are dropping but what do these guys have? A record, that's what. Menial jobs after, probably for the rest of their lives. Did some belong there? Yup. But drug crime will always drag more people in. Check out an inmate run channel. You'll get just as good a view.
Life is what you make it. A nail that sticks up will be hammered down
Good Doku!
These guys are just talking. They ain't saying nothing. Just blah blah blah. Nothing I heard made me think.
Not much has changed honestly
Dude you're everywhere hahahah by the way ...crass suck
@@blockhead8134 kiss sucks as well 😂😏
@@downwiththemaster kiss sucked when late '79 hit ,but I will have to agree with everything beyond sucking hahahahahhahhahah
37:00 in the bol talking straight facts! 50 years later his plea still resonates
Wow its crazy how thin they are compared to the new inmates now .Food has never been great but it's a jail what you expect steaks and porkchops.Theres jobs in jail and prisons but not any job that can teach you a skill you can use to change in the outside .Institutions are just schools to become a better criminal and once in the outside you are stereotype and and the roadblocks to change are hard .Who's going to hire and ex felon whose going to rent to an ex felon etc.I understand you cant save all felons but imagine if you were to help change at least 40 to 50 percent of these individuals instead of just forgetting about them .Remember a lot of inmates are going to get out so what are the chances the crime they commit will not affect you taxes,victim.Theres a big difference between a rapist and a guy that sell drugs .
Theres a report by the district attorney of Philadelphia from 1969, about the high numbers of gang rape in the 3 Philadelphia jails during 1966-1968, gang rape, racial violence and tension was very high, partly because of the racial situation in the free world.
This jail wasn't far from Philadelphia but it seems much safer and calmer than those in Philly.
The report is available online as a pdf, its by Alan Davies D.A.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Sounds like these guys forgot why they are there in the first place, robbing, raping, murdering, and then they expect a summer camp!?
It nice to see that guy's back then take no responsibility for their own actions, just like guys do these days
I hate when people refer to prisoners or undesirable people as animals. Never understood that. Animals IMO are so superior to humans.
The smartest ppl are in jail?? They’re not smart enough to not go there in the first place n shows little to no self-control.
@MB Q: If these ppl in prison are so smart/intelligent as you say, don’t they know crime doesn’t pay? They just got caught? They were supposed to get caught. Stop attempting to justify wrong.
@Donnell Okafor this is a very accurate statement. I did a total of about 17 years in NYS prisons, Attica, Greenhaven, Elmira, etc etc. I am very intelligent, & met alot of intelligent men in prison. But we were all lacking in the needed maturity, wisdom, & understanding to do what what necessary to make it in the free world. Some of this is due to our upbringing, but also because of our continuing to make bad choices after more bad choices. Sometimes it is hard to not put ourselves in bad situations, especially when you have nothing, have that burn in your belly from hunger, jealousy of watching others have & do the things you cant, etc etc. But the reality is crime rarely pays, & typically costs you more. With wisdom & maturity we are able to better evaluate our options, & then make a more educated decision.
I am now 42 years old, been out of prison & trouble for some 10 years. I am a successful contractor, & make good money, live well, pay my bills, own cars, go on trips with my wife & children, etc etc. And I'm Latino white mix, a multiple convicted felon, labeled Latin King gang member, have tattoos, etc, & was able to make it. I had to stop making excuses & maybe work twice as hard as the next man who didn't have my background, but I accepted this because it is the consequences for my own choices. But I will not die with nothing, & being a nobody in a cell or under a bench somewhere. It can be done, because I'm doing it.
Trust me it's not hard to be sent to jail
@@delenorich2852 True. It’s usually bc of lack of emotional control.
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Good for you man! You need to want it, the change that is.
Hoping that you and all of your loved ones are remaining healthy and safe during this time of Global Covid Craziness.
Peace
Sad that prison is 100 times worse now.
Doesn't look like much has changed 😕
When a guy goes to prison and complains about the food, the boredom, the CO’s, and the system.
What does a guy think? It’s supposed be the Holiday in? It’s supposed be comfortable?
Yet that same dude did a crime against some one or something in order to get there. What about his victims? Lucky for most inmates, the majority of society doesn’t get their way. Many many felons would be executed immediately for some of the crimes like Murder, rape, child molestation, etc. Yet, even with serial killers we have leniency. How is does a convicted serial killer get a pass? Why is that person put to rest right after the conviction?
WOW, that one guy could Leo DeCapprio and Steve Buscemi's love child !! 37:45 😂
The law in this country is vendictive!
Heard a lot about how the inmates feel about prison….. I wonder if they considered how the victims of their crimes felt as they were committing the crime!? Probably not….. the man who always nothing is always the man who wants to share.
Is this Eastern State Penitentiary?
Gotta be. To much mixed races hanging out.
Richard Kuklinski 1:56 lol
good eye
I used to dress up like a bear...
And ride motorcycles..in the Russian Circus..
After I saved the fat lady from a grease fire..
I was granted my freedom..then I went to prison.
8 : 22 . He's telling the truth
Why the spacing why not just make a timestamp?
Quit breaking the law.
Because a innocent man would never get locked up would he
@Donnell Okafor well they are innocent if they haven’t been sentenced .
@Donnell Okafor you know what I mean
Not one mention of the fact that these guys victimized people. Just crying that they have to pay for victimizing others.
So I don't think anyone is arguing the fact that jail/prison does not work for many offenders. So then what should we do with convicted murderers rapist child pedophile and killers? Sadly US cannot take ever individual aside and provide the one on one rehab that the violent offender needs. There isn't enough resources and manpower to do this..many violent offenders regardless of the rehab they get will still be violent and commit future crimes. I think I'm theory it sounds great! Rehab everyone last resort prison. But it is easy to say what the US justice system "should do". But it is entirely different story when you try to execute it.
is this eastern state pen philly
I’m thinking the same thing or Holmesburg State Prison
It’s Western State pen in Bucks county. Very similar style to Eastern State. Wondering if Western state became Graterford prison?
HI
Still dark & evil world.
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"Age the age of 13" u shouldn't even be THINKING about "Surviving", ur suppose to Still be under ur Parents, smh31:20
Are zoo’s really animal prison? Did the animals commit crimes? Why has there always been that comparison? Why should criminals be treated “at least as good as the animals in zoo’s “?? So called “animals” are better than most humans, especially criminals!! Who’s really the “animals”. I’m not even really an animal enthusiast type person.... it’s just facts.
Times are changing California is adopted Norways way of incarceration. They look like college dorms now tons of rehabilitation. U come out with a college degree now !! lol "prisnyland" is what the inmates call It !! Seriously look it up .
There has to be prisons
Everyone says that until they have to go to 1 i wouldn't wish jail on my WORST ENEMY
@@gdupkwin9676 can’t do the time DONT do the crime
@@roncur i have everytime i get caught .im in favor of manning up .im saying people shouldn't be incarcerated for drugs.narcotics make up around 90% of all jails
@@gdupkwin9676 some kidnaps your child. U wouldn’t wish jail on them?? Since you wouldn’t wish jail on your worst enemy
@@roncur my son is 27 years old and im not saying its wrong for. People to use the system im speaking solely for myself have fun dialing 911
did not know that in those inmates could wear own clothes , in the UK and Ireland male and female prisoners wear own clothes not like the idea of uniform. You committed wrong , broke the law and punishment should be awarded yes , but all prisoners even the hard core criminals deserve to be treated humanely and just and deserve better conditions when serving time . Even to this very day they still have not seen much of prison reform been decades of this , now in the West with this record heat wave prisoners are suffering terribly again baking to death of course . They are human after all and should be treated as such. I am more interested in male prisons than women , and do please do everything not to find yourself there in the first place