A rare look inside St Cloud prison

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  • čas přidán 13. 10. 2014
  • You've probably driven by the prison in St. Cloud. Now you can see what it looks like inside on its 125th birthday.

Komentáře • 58

  • @reginaldjackson2456
    @reginaldjackson2456 Před 5 lety +53

    I was locked up there from 1989-91 first time and the last.

    • @bluesharp59
      @bluesharp59 Před 3 lety +4

      Good to hear Reginald.

    • @ProdSmooth
      @ProdSmooth Před 2 lety +1

      wat u do?

    • @thehonorshow
      @thehonorshow Před rokem +1

      I went in in 2012 I only did just under 2 yrs and got boot camp. But they effed up the ORIGINAL BLOCK WITH THAT LOCK IS E HOUSE. B IS DIFFERENT. I've seen B house and ALL of us go to E house

  • @clintonearlwalker
    @clintonearlwalker Před 2 lety +8

    I did 3 years in Maryland prisons, they've closed most of those old gothic prisons. I know the one in Baltimore is closed, "Dracula's Castle". They also closed the one in Moundsville WV, I toured it later. At about :54 he calls it "the brake system". That is the slam bar, where prisons got the name "slammer". The one they closed in WV still has the electric chair and you can see a trap door for one of the gallows. Our guide said people would come from miles and bring picnic lunches to watch the hangings. There is a tripod mounted machine gun in the back of the cafeteria and tear gas squirters in the ceiling. Another tripod machine gun aims down a corridor. A line painted on the floor is called "the deadline", you didn't cross that line.
    I remember when I was a kid WV had very faded license plates, even when they were brand new. I never knew why until I toured that prison. The guide said every license plate in WV was made there. The inmates pissed in the paint.

  • @jerryschwinn7234
    @jerryschwinn7234 Před 6 lety +28

    I went to the scared straight program at that prison when I was a teenager. Thankfully it worked.

  • @standaniels6683
    @standaniels6683 Před 5 lety +10

    I have drove past that place many times on my way to visit friends

  • @unicornlove4365
    @unicornlove4365 Před 8 lety +30

    i love driving by this prison, it is really beautiful and gothic. pretty much looks like a castle.

    • @guypoole5032
      @guypoole5032 Před 6 lety +1

      Unicornlove did five years in it lol

    • @shanemccool7595
      @shanemccool7595 Před 5 lety +1

      Reminds me of the Shawshank prison. The scene when he was walked inside is exactly what I felt. It was terrifying.

    • @LuisGuzman-nv5pe
      @LuisGuzman-nv5pe Před 5 lety +1

      I just got release from that bitch! A HOUSE UPPER

  • @joshuakennedy2015
    @joshuakennedy2015 Před rokem +3

    Is this the prison next to Highway 10 just southeast of st cloud

  • @thetruth5914
    @thetruth5914 Před 2 lety +7

    Need more prisons like this one.

  • @EasyBrisse
    @EasyBrisse Před 9 lety +5

    Maybe the Red Wing Juvenile Correctional Facility should be done next?!

  • @lilaliks31
    @lilaliks31 Před 5 lety +8

    I dont get it. 75% success rate for re offending yet its just a intake prison now. Makes alot of sense. They arent proffiting off of convicts not reoffending anymore so they shut it down. Smh.

    • @iiiMUNiiiQUE
      @iiiMUNiiiQUE Před 5 lety +2

      its still open, but yeah if its just for intake why brag about 75% success rate.

    • @paulssportscards2078
      @paulssportscards2078 Před 3 lety +2

      There's no way they have a 75% success rate cuz 82% of people who go to prison in Minnesota reoffend so not sure how he got that 75%

    • @colonelradec5956
      @colonelradec5956 Před rokem

      this video has misinformation i think. from what i was told in jail you always go to saint cloud first. then if you reoffend you usually go to another prison without going back.
      so the 75% might just be him saying they dont come back here 🤣 which is hilarious. that makes him a flat out liar lol.

  • @ColtGColtG
    @ColtGColtG Před 9 lety +2

    I used to live right behind this till i moved to NC a few months ago

  • @Knoc213
    @Knoc213 Před 9 lety +5

    Looks pretty fancy for a prison.

  • @dbcooper692
    @dbcooper692 Před 6 lety +8

    nice to hear something good for a change you can make a good living as a bricklayer good job warden

  • @mychemicalfallutatthedisc4924

    I live in western Wisconsin and I regularly drive past their, and there's A FUCKING PARK right next to the end of the fencey thingies 😂

    • @cw602
      @cw602 Před 5 lety

      I hiked in that park many times. I used to live across from it, around the corner from the prison. It's pretty neat. There's quarry ponds and fun rocks to walk around on.

  • @thehonorshow
    @thehonorshow Před rokem +2

    I ate a lot of meals in that kitchen

  • @thehonorshow
    @thehonorshow Před rokem

    I was I'm there in 2012. This is E house. E house is rhe oldest Block... still has original lock . B house is different I've seen it.

    • @Bryan-od7nv
      @Bryan-od7nv Před 9 dny

      Reminds me of when I toured Alcatraz.

  • @lynndeatherage3792
    @lynndeatherage3792 Před rokem

    I think it's for teenagers and youth groups of prisoners people who moved in the area of the country to make sure that they were called in to be able of access to the bathroom door 🚪 in a place.

  • @TheSecondAdam
    @TheSecondAdam Před 2 lety +1

    All those Canada goose in the yard. How ironic. They are free as a bird.

  • @nicolefeeken6130
    @nicolefeeken6130 Před 4 lety +8

    If we can give prisoners free college free medical and free dental why in the hell can’t we do that for working citizens that have never done anything wrong never hurt anybody never killed anybody never stole anything maybe if we were to offer all these free amenities to everybody no one would end up in prison????!!!!!

    • @tgetty18
      @tgetty18 Před 4 lety +2

      You're an idiot.

    • @thehonorshow
      @thehonorshow Před rokem +3

      🤣🤣🤣🤣 they don't do shit for you medical or dental wise in there... free medical n dental.. I didn't get my teeth fixed and they left me full of hep c and wouldn't treat it I went to Dr and cured it when I got out

    • @thehonorshow
      @thehonorshow Před rokem +2

      We use to joke that we were going to see Dr Mengala from the nazis when called in for check up

    • @thehonorshow
      @thehonorshow Před rokem +3

      They do just enuff and feed you just enuff to keep u alive that's it

  • @mattanderson861
    @mattanderson861 Před 2 lety +2

    Looks like Shawshank

  • @kattroester
    @kattroester Před 2 lety +1

    Oh gosh! This vid islike a promo for a hotel. NO!

  • @colonelradec5956
    @colonelradec5956 Před rokem +2

    73% of offenders stay out of trouble after leaving. thats cause its the first prison they send you too 😂 if you make it past saint cloud you have re offended lol.

  • @DonutVIP
    @DonutVIP Před 7 lety +4

    I wanna see the one in Woodbury

  • @gordowayway1983
    @gordowayway1983 Před rokem

    They’ve been feeding the ailments like that for a long time give them some hope and get better food

  • @AllenMitchellGardner
    @AllenMitchellGardner Před rokem

    I was there.

  • @beardecorah1071
    @beardecorah1071 Před 7 lety +1

    I use fish in that coral when they 1st started the youthful offender program. sweatlodge is down there in the corner too

  • @chadclaude9044
    @chadclaude9044 Před 4 lety

    I was in there from 1990 to 98 with 8 months in fairibault

  • @MNRick041
    @MNRick041 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I was there 1992-1995. Colin Gau was a AW at the time. The dining hall looks totally new, it used to have carpeting and actual tables and chairs,
    We used to be able to wear our own clothes, your family could bring you a christmas package of food at Christmas . Your unit could vote on a meal and then order food from the outside a few times a year. It wasn’t a bad place to do time back then.
    I had a 54 month sentence and did 36 of it, did the last 8 months in Faribault .
    I think the 75% success rate is 75% don't return to the Minnesota DOC. That doesn't mean a inmate who got released from MNDOC isn't a frequent flyer at the local jails or didn't get Federal time or time in some other state.
    I never went back to the Minnesota DOC but i did get arrested by the Feds in 1997 and went to Federal prison for 11 years., i ran into a few guys i personally knew from Minnesota prisons and met a lot more who had previously done state time, so that 75% sucess rate is deceptive.

    • @suspiciousactivity4266
      @suspiciousactivity4266 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Dam bruh please don't go back in. Live your best life.

    • @MNRick041
      @MNRick041 Před 2 měsíci

      @@suspiciousactivity4266 I'm t3 now, too old for that bullshit. All I do these days is go to work and go home.

  • @bkb0859
    @bkb0859 Před měsícem

    I know 2 of the punk$ that spent time there.

  • @shadowandsoul4331
    @shadowandsoul4331 Před 3 lety +1

    Goddess that commentator, is just awful with his sing songy words like he is reading for a Mary Poppins play.