MISSOURI STATE PENITENTIARY-PRISON AND GAS CHAMBER TOUR -JEFFERSON CITY, MO-EP27
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- We took a 3 hour guided tour through the Missouri State Penitentiary, Gas Chamber and Warden's house. This home is preserved and used privately for special events, but for the public, now has a prison museum in the basement. It was fascinating.
You will want to go on line and figure out which of the many tours will fill you needs, and then BOOK a reservation. Costs and times vary. They even have overnight tours!
The tour was given by one of the deputies that worked at the prison for 25 years, as well as one of the nurses that worked in the prison hospital.
For most of the years that the prison was operated, all of the prisoners had to walk in single file lines when moving around the facility, and had to maintain COMPLETE silence. No talking was ever allowed, and you could only speak to a guard if HE asked you a question.
The solitary confinement area was a nightmare. One individual, who managed to live to tell about it, was in total darkness (NOT EVEN A SLIVER OF LIGHT), in an 8’ x 10’ cell, without a bed, in suffocating heat in the summer, with ZERO ventilation, with no exercise, with 5 to 10 other inmates, all competing for the food bucket shoved into your cell once a day. You were all required to "SHARE" the cells waste bucket!!!
Sonny Liston was one of the two "famous" prisoners that spent time here. The most famous inmate, which we actually forgot to highlight in the video was James Earl Ray, WHO ESCAPED, and THEN went on to shoot Martin Luther King, Jr.
We had visited Alcatraz many years prior, and this place is 100 years OLDER! It made "The Rock" look like a Country Club!
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as part of my sentence for a felony conviction, i was brought here for a day long tour and they left us in a room with a couple murderers to talk to us. It was an experience i will never forget. I was facing 14 years. I havent been in trouble since. Freedom is more important than anything. nice work on the video
When I was growing up, I was sort of a small time vandal & cigarette thief. Thankfully,......when I was caught I was YOUNG enough that I got off easy, and SCARED enough by the police and adults involved that I LEARNED I was going in the wrong direction. This tour for us brought all those feelings back to the surface for me. Taking this tour can be a powerful experience,........
@@OurJourneyInMyles yeah ive been wanting to do the public tour but iam concerned about how i would feel once i got there. i think i would feel blessed that i straightened my act up and never had to go for a long sentence.
@@OurJourneyInMyles A friend of mine spent a year in prison when he was younger for check fraud. He'd just arrived in the system and was going through in-processing at the State Penitentiary in Starke, Florida when the lights started flickering. When someone asked what it was the guard told them, "They're testing Old Sparky...there's an execution tonight." He said that experience stayed with him for a LONG time (naturally). He served his time, got out, and hasn't been in trouble since.
I visited my dad a few times there in the 90s. It was a very interesting place
I am sure that was hard to do,....
😢😢😢
Wat jail is this
Me too! I was a teenager it was a massive looming forboding place
I was there in the 90s…There use to be a sign that said..’leave all hopes and dreams behind’…wild place..once my custody level went down,they moved me to a lower level camp…I was a teenager then…crazy times
Glad to hear you made it out OK Donald,.......
Thank you so much for this. My husband was there from 1999-2004 and he has ghost stories.
Wow,.......this place sure has plenty of emotion still locked inside its walls.
@@OurJourneyInMyles So many stories! Between him and a friend we know that lived there a lot longer....he mentioned being in the yard and if anything happened, the guards would just start shooting from the towers. Ricochets and bullets wizzing by. But...of all the prisons they lived in, this one left a mark that actually makes them want to come back and see it again.
They do have guided ghost tours people can do at night.
I spent 17 years there. I wish I could do a video and tell the history I know from late 70s until 1990. I did take a couple tours.
Glad you eventually made it out. This was a very scary & serious tour to go on for many of us, and we all could see that this place was no joke at all. That is why we made the video. The humor was thrown in to keep the viewer relaxed,....I certainly wasn't,..... especially when we went into the real dungeon that was used. Next week (June 9th 2019) we are publishing (Episode 68) our visit to the Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp, in southeast California, used to incarcerate 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War 2. That video is informational, sad, serious and hopefully a learning experience.
If you’re able to and comfortable doing so, you absolutely should make a video. First person accounts and stories tell so much more than any article, tour, or documentary ever could. Maybe you could even do episodes like Larry Lawton does with his prison and theft stories, assuming you’d be comfortable doing so. I know I’d love to hear about your experience, and I hope others would too.
I was there from 88 -93. Just did a tour
If I knew your Initials I would probably know you.
@Thomas In late 72 or early 73 a man named Dent from St Louis was killed. He had mental problems and was out on the yard taking a sand bath. Several guards came for him and he did some real damage to them, a while later in lockup he was found hung .
I was just there yesterday (Tuesday. November 5) for a school trip. It was cool. We also went to the capital
Great education visiting this place!
Our Journey In Myles yes. It was very cool. I had fun. We listened to music on the bus played games. Then went to eat at Pizza Hut. The part that sucked was we had to get up and get to school at 5:00am.
Jefferson City is a pretty city
Awesome tour. Thank You. Very interesting.
Our pleasure Brian! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.
I toured the New prison a couple of weeks before they moved the inmates. Then I toured this prison right after they moved the inmates to the new prison.
I got to tour before any of the building were torn down. We didn't get to tour a couple of buildings because they were a crime seen. A few of the inmates had built a fake wall and killed another inmate because the person changed his mind on escaping, so they killed him.
The tour you get to go on is very much worth the money, very interesting with all the stories.
Wow. Hopefully the new one was a vast improvement to inmates lives and rehabilitation prospects while serving their sentences. We are scheduled to go on a "Rotary Prison Tour" in Indiana in a few weeks. Make sure to check that episode put!
Sonny Liston was there for awhile, learned how to box from a preacher there, he got so good they were putting 2-3 prisoners with him at a time
It was actually a great success story to hear about from the tour guide.
This is a good video! I am subscribing!
Thanks Olivia. We really have fun making these because it is just a hobby for us as we travel. Glad you subscribed so you don't forget about us and miss the next episode! Tomorrows video is Sue & I touring some great Napa Valley Wineries. She is so much better at her editing than I am. I think her EP66 is great. My EP67 coming the following week will test your loyalty though,....stay tuned!
@@OurJourneyInMyles I will! I'll also contact my friends to tell you about your awesome channel!
Woah this is a great video!
Glad you liked it. It was very sad and interesting being there,.......needed a little of the humor to take off the sting of the whole experience.
The Shawashank Redemption
Yes,...very much so!
Great editing..
We love to have fun with our travel videos so we don't bore people to tears. My wife Sue is SO much better at editing than I am. I try to listen and learn from her, but teaching an old dog new tricks is tough. Thanks for the pat on the back,....
I loved the reactions from Mark great commentary
Glad you enjoyed Mary. The prison museums are all a little tense!
Interesting, but sad that people chose to live this way😔 thanks for sharing 💕
Sue & I love to visit places that can tug at your heart as well as fill it. Reality sometimes is hard to process, but this place scared me plenty. This is possibly the most complete and awesome "closed" correctional facility to visit.
Why does ignorance have to equal judgment. To think it's as simple as the thousands of people in there just "choosing" to live that way. Sure you've heard of the prisoners getting off after decades proven innocent. Did you see how insanely difficult it was? think of the thousands that don't have that opportunity. A man there for life cause at 17 he shot his younger brother's repeated rapist that lived up the street when his parents didn't believe them. Think that's the only story like that? Think of the movie The Green Mile do you think that was just totally made up?Do you have any idea how hard it is to prove self-defense? And then your sent there for decades and robbed of all the basic human necessities. Have to crap in front of dozens of people, no privacy ever, no choice in what you do ever, no kids playing, no girl trips, no wine tasting. Then you get out and everybody assumes you just "chose" to go there so they won't give you a job. So then what? No I've never been in prison but I choose to know about things before I judge them.
Just moved to Jeff city and doing this tour this month so excited looks crazy
This one is one of the best we have went on, as well as our Episode #189 visit to the Old Montana Prison in Deer Lodge.
This is actually very interesting :0
Nice video!
Glad you liked it Laima! We understand it is a sad subject overall,..........but nonetheless IS an intriguing part of history to learn about.
I live in Missouri and this prison was still in use when my class took a school trip to Jefferson City
That must have left quite an impression,.....
Very interesting video, what a grim place to be incarcerated. Glad you were only just visiting 👍
I am not being funny when I say I should of been taken here when I was young. A good "scare" would have helped a lot. I was a naughty boy in grade school, and I could have ended up on an entirely different path. Luck was with me, and I avoided most problems, although I did become an engineer. Now of course, I am a puppy dog.
@@OurJourneyInMyles Now that we are mature adults I look back and just wonder what I was thinking when I did some really dumb stuff when I was young. I am also happy that I got through adolescence OK to mature into an engineer.
My brother was a guard there for years. The prison, and that area of town, was hit by a tornado this year. Oh, and I had my last big high school reunion at Prison Brews. 😊❤️
I can only imagine the stories he has about this place. Granted,...it is a sad facility to be incarcerated in, but it was extremely interesting to tour, and the history of some of it's famous inmates was cool to learn about.
@@caitlyndickerson863 This facility is closed now, but it is one of the best preserved examples of a recent, real prison allowing tourists to visit. Highly recommended.
i use to visit some of my friends there , yep they all doing good in life...i remember when they opened super max up in there .
Glad to hear about a few happy endings Gayle.
@@OurJourneyInMyles i am happy for them too .... i liked the visiting room there , it was big and i did like the guards who was out there ..it was in the 80s ....
Awesome tour. I live kind of close to the Ohio State reformatory, and with their a couple Summers ago. I've always been interested in this one and the Nashville penitentiary that is not open to visitors. I'll have to check out your other prison videos.
We find tours like this intriguing and fascinating.
The place is much cooler and creepier to explore when it's closed and don't have a bunch of clueless tourists wondering about.
I can imagine how interesting a private tour would be at dusk!
I got a personal tour of that place back in the late 90s with the superintendent.
That must have been intriguing to tour it while still in full operation!
I like for them to check out the one of the oldest prison here in the state of Connecticut witch is called Osborn years back was called summer’s Connecticut
Every state we visit, we alway search for our favorite subjects and things to do. We have not done any east coast states yet!
@@OurJourneyInMyles it be dope just to know that are oldest prison is haunted I did jail time in Osborn is not a nice place is more like a freaky place 💯💯💯
The late 60's early 70's was a violent time at the Walls, hardly anyone got anymore time for killing other inmates. Bobby Rutan and Billy Hoskins killed Dave Moyer and Dee Dee, clerks in C-Hall in 1973. Donald Wyrick was warden and he walked the yard without fear and inmates respected him. In early 70's death row was released into general population and some pretty wild cats come to live in population. Gas House Willie Coleman killed over a dozen in a small bar and Booth tried to get too fat to fit into the death chairs. Some real bugs.
These are the stories that have way more meaning when told by folks that are in the know,.......
I am a full timer
I have a home in Boss Missouri .
By Rolla .
Go to the Meramac Caverns in Missouri theres a Camp site and hotel .
Will keep that in mind!
My paranormal team is doing an investigation here in September. Can't wait!! 👻👻👻👻
In 2 weeks we will be visiting one of the few "Rotary Jail Museums" that were ever built in Crawfordsville Indiana.
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What jail is this
Went there last year a day before Christmas 2019 never went inside but saw how old it looked all the walls slowly coming down or taken down scary to know that people where exicuted there I would love to take a tour of the I side one day thanks for the video
On May 22nd 2019, a tornado did millions of dollars damage to this facility, as well as many other state owned buildings in Jefferson City. Time will tell how much money the state will budget to renovate this piece of history.
Mo city lit like that 💯🔥
Definitely worth a visit!
@@OurJourneyInMyles For sure, keep up the good work my man
Cells are kind of cool
It was a great tour!
Many years ago my dads friend was a guard at San Quentin, he was one of a handful of guys that ran the gas chamber.
That had to be a tough job! I will NEVER complain about being a Mechanical Engineer for 40 years ever again,.....
Wow, this was a really good video.
Thanks for the nice reply. Make sure you look at our similar, somewhat serious videos, EP42 about the Abandoned Sedona Amphitheater and EP33 about a "soon to be" ghost town in Texola Oklahoma!
Kind of sad to watch this. That area where he pointed at the guard tower and residential neighborhood was recently his by a tornado and was completely leveled.
Agree with you,...it was a sad place. I wish they had more programs in place to take new, young offenders to places like this to see how their future will be if they don't make changes. This place makes an impact on you.
If the walls could talk
You can say that again. I would stand in the cells and read all the graffiti. Very sad and tense,......
They do.
I have booked a history tour tomorrow of this comment. But in the email and waiver they ask that you don’t record anything. 😢😢
Yikes! We didn't see that information.
@@OurJourneyInMyles maybe it’s a new rule :)
I went a few years ago, In the cell block with the cat walks I froze up walking across. I have a pretty qnarly fear of heights. Video does no justice for how big this place is.
Thanks for checking us out Lolly!
Nice vid
Very interesting, scary and sad all rolled into one. This is one of the best, most complete and recently retired corrections facilities to visit.
I live in Jefferson City
We thought is was a great little town. Sorry to hear about the tornado that came through and damaged this historic tourist site.
I went when the tornado we didn’t get to go to th Dugan
It was sad to hear about the tornado damage to this museum. Glad we saw it all in one piece!
I know
Probably they don't know that ones it's night time there it gets hunted which you will be able to hear sounds those who pass in that prison.
I thought I remembered they had a night time tour during the high season?? That would be interesting.
Did time there. Hell on earth
Harvey,.........just watched some of your channel. I have pinned a comment under our video directing folks to view your content to see what it was really like. I wish you the best with the gift of your second chance that you earned the hard way. You spoke directly to one's heart,.....
don,t drop the soap in the showers mark lol
I learned that way back in high school,.....
I thought the blue buildings at the beginning of the video were the gas chambers! Interesting tour
I guess under certain controlled conditions this would be possible,......
No the gas chamber there is very very small barely big enough for a normal size adult to get into without ducking
Same exact height as mark lets gooo
Thanks for stopping by Carl,.....
I worked there from 92 to 2000 sure didn't look like that.
Message me if you were there or worked there
Can only imagine the stories you must have from your experiences there,........
Sue & I were just tourists there,......
What jail is this
Is this Saint Joseph
This museum was a moving experience for sure!
You know this placed his haunted?
It would sure have plenty of reasons to be!
Prison break
Yes, they had a few!
If places like this were still used less people would commit crimes.
The place had me scared!
My dad did 18 years here for murder before I was born. I visited his old cell. We live in saint louis, MO. Place is really messed up
We agree,.....all the prison museums we toured make your heart ache for the souls that had to endure the punishment living there.........
Don't even make sense they had to close it because it was unsafe for prisoners but it's okay for tourists to walk through it that's some funny s*** right there
It is a fantinating tour.
A few people walking around for an hour is a little different than 5000 people living there 24/7
That accent tho.
We now realize that we could move to Minnesota or Canada and no one would know!
Very walking deadish
It was a scary place even for tourists like us,.......
I just received a comment from Harvey, a past inmate that has a CZcams Channel called "Harvey Talks Prison". czcams.com/channels/0jkt35hgxErrwdTAidebdg.html He talks about his experiences while doing a life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections, and the reality of prison life in the hope that he will help someone avoid the fate he had to endure. It is honest, raw and heartbreaking. Definitely worth checking out if you liked our "Tourist" video, and would like to know the real story. He also wrote a book about his experience available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B096TRWY29/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_PRRVX3N8WFWNWPAG8880
I live in Jefferson City
We thought is was a great little town. Sorry to hear about the tornado that came through and damaged this historic tourist site.