Especially "of that nature " I remember my grandmother taking me there to visit my uncle. I was probably like 6 or 7 (maybe 89?), and that memory stuck with me. As a white guy, I wonder what the percentage of white folk was held here?I remember us passing this place and seeing the guards walking the wall. If I remember correctly you could actually see the inmates in the yard looking on from the fence?
Thank you for posting this. It was very considerate of the Ethyl corporation to produce a narrated video tour of the penitentiary before it was demolished.
The guy who tried to fly over the wall was my celly his name was Jew babe from Norfolk Va. He thought me how to jog.This man run all day from morning til night.Thats a true story he still locked up 40 yrs.I come in as a young boy he thought me how to respect men and never be or accept disrespect.
I left him on Buckingham.He said he tried flying now he going to run if he ever get another chance.😁He was a real good guy.I hope and pray he made it home the right way.
A fact that’s always misrepresented is: VA’s chair was 💯 not made by inmates....the chair, head/leg electrodes, and associated hardware, were built by the Carl Adams Electric Co in Trenton, NJ in 1909...The Adams Co. also built South Carolina’s chair.....
wow, the band room@ frames 23:15-18 still had my guitar scale charts (chart number 1 was missing) still hanging on the walls. I place them there during '84
If I had to do time, i'd much rather do it in a place like this than a modern,sterile corporate run prison. Sounds like they allowed plenty of privileges . Dead head Inmates, those who didn't work or go to school were allowed to wander their section, play chess,cards,checkers, etc. Television, wash your clothes in buckets....Sounds odd to imagine these small things as important , but I can imagine it made their time pass quicker . These old buildings actually have some character too them...the windows alone would be a treat ...just being able to see outside would make the time less dreary . I've never been in prison so I'm simply looking at it logically ...I've been in a modern prison to visit , half hour and the place was creeping me out. Ah...the good old days...even the jails were far superior !
You need to find some stories of people who was incarcerated here. It was absolute Hell. Gang rapes, stabbings, murder and people going over the tiers every day. Ex cons say it was the worst of the worst place to go, period.
Lmao oh yeah and lack of fucking cameras and Idk about you but I didn't see a single shread of netting for those 5 tiers, long fall. Oh yeah and those older prisons are falling the fuckkkkkkkkkkkk apart and guess what you can make from all of that rusted out worn metal? 🗡
Inmates were allowed to do more back then. As far as rec like boxing, lifting weights, and some other sports. Smoking was allowed. But there is no way you would rather be at that place than a modern prison. That was a violent place. And no cameras or human rights to hear your complaints.
@Bryon Stephens Hey,driving by that dark ,sad place,we could feel it. My son was in several prisons from Va to OR and he sent me the link to this video. Think he remembers the place on Belvidere as a kid because we'd always silently say a little prayer I'm sorry you ever had to set a foot in such a place.
There's a few things you'll not hear spoken about concerning this prison. Back when it was closed down archeologists went in digging around. One thing they found was that part of the prison was built right over top of a prison grave yard. Remains were found but no plaques to identify them were found. Another thing they don't tell you is when they closed Spring Street down they took the electric chair to the new (At that time) prison Greenville and fried 7 people the first 6 months of it being there. FYI. These 2 idiots down play the whole prison experience. They make it sound like a sunday school class compared to what it really was. I've known many who were there. All say it was a hell hole where guards did whatever they felt like doing to whatever prisoner!
I would think that anyone watching this would already assume that pulling time here was no walk in the park. This video was made from a historical perceptive. I'm sure both of these fellows could tell some harrowing stories about life inside here.
I believe they're wrong about the chair being constructed by inmates. Almost every prison says that but it usually isn't true, it's something that gets handed down. The chair (electrical equipment, chair and all), was actually designed and constructed by a New Jersey man named Carl Adams. Adams built the electric chairs for New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina. The chairs themselves were built by a company called the Trenton Pattern Works, back in the early 1900s. There was a little controversy when Adams installed the chair in VA, back in 1908, because he got a third of the balance up-front, another third when he delivered the equipment, he got $500 for installing and was supposed to get the remaining balance upon completion of the first execution. However, the state of VA didn't execute anyone for a few months, which left Adams in a bind, as he was a small businessman who went out of pocket for the items needed. The total cost of the electric chair in 1908 was $3,800.
At 42:25. He talkin bout why they raised the fence to the too of each tier… Oh the inmates throw.. Blah, they like to break our windows… damn criminals… how bout the fence is also there to save the life of some1 who aint built for that shit. Someones melon splittin apart from 4th teir Is BAD
I really enjoyed the video. The prison was obviously outdated by many of today's standards but if you had to do a serious amount of time there you did not have air conditioning or proper heat, the food was not fit for human consumption and lots of violence behind those foreboding walls that they didn't show you.Again I loved the tour but I wish the black gentleman would have spoken louder, I could barely hear him.
Was over this old guys house one day and he was talkin bout his 5 winder chevy truck.. And my ex asked the same question lol. But je calmly explained u see that clear thing right there thats a winder lmfao
Did y'all here wut the man said at 47:12...? Said a inmate wud be sitting on the ceiling and walking up the wall..and they designed a cell so any future inmates couldn't do it...?????? How in the hell...????????
When I was a child when ever they used the electric chair! Our lights would cut off! Richmond would lie and say that wasn’t causing it but it did! It basically traumatized me because I would know what was happening! I didn’t know that the people did something wrong! I thought they were frying them for nothing!
Not at all, those are people that made those harsh choices and have to face the consequences. It’s not like they fried people with just minor felonies these were hard cold killers that have absolutely no remorse for those they’ve taken the lives from so why should we feel remorse for the way they were taken out of this world , do you think they felt as much pain as all of the people they’ve killed and the families that had to deal with that? Nope not even close to be honest the only reason that chair shouldn’t have been a thing is so these people can continually live in torcher for the rest of they’re lives for the hell they’ve put on others that are innocent
@@RETIREDAMATUER I never said anything about the color or race of whom was getting electrocuted dumbs ass where you read that apart at? My comment clearly just say PEOPLE stupid learn how to read and comprehend stupid woke idiot lmao.
Sara Allison when is the last time you were in a man's prison where people are doing 125 years mad and horny as fuck? The way I saw dudes weren't really getting beaten and raped but dudes that were weak or scared would get turned out. Fucking sad.
I find it hysterical how these days inmates complain about how they're treated and how bad prison is, it's prison, it's supposed to suck! Back when this prison was in use, I'm sure it was much worse. Prison is a deterrent just as much it is a punishment, if it was nice and fun, what would be the point?
Lot more privileges back then, but a lot more violence...if would've preferred the more violence and privileges of back then then the shit they have today
Tallk about the parties.The women the club we called it club Spring Street.And all the fake money that was leaving out the PENN.Anything you wanted you can get in Spring Street.We partied every month and alot of baby's was made in there.The C O was doing the same as inmates.if the price was write and it always was.
I don’t have no respect for ah black man that works in any typa law enforcement or fought in any war after the civil war, and in 50/50 on that. The way America had and has treated us i don’t think i could stand and fight with no pilgrims. And I’m not an racist person. But em pilgrims have treated the human race in general so messed up over the years its a shame. So any black man or woman that teams up with em in any capacity to oppress why you’re the lowest of em all and your ancestors are flip’n over in their graves. (MY PERSONAL OPINION)
Shouts to Banky for making me look this shit up. #TBP
Yep.
Me too. I was watching Vlad! TBP!
Yep
Yep@!!
Yup
"I left early that day to get ahead of the line at the liquor store." - favorite quote from the entire video
I did time there. Was a learning experience! I played football and basketball games there. Never want to go through anything of that nature again!.
Especially "of that nature " I remember my grandmother taking me there to visit my uncle. I was probably like 6 or 7 (maybe 89?), and that memory stuck with me. As a white guy, I wonder what the percentage of white folk was held here?I remember us passing this place and seeing the guards walking the wall. If I remember correctly you could actually see the inmates in the yard looking on from the fence?
I knew plenty of guys who did time here. So blessed to be out. Never again
I’m here cause Banky Pound said it🤣🤣😂💪🏿💯
Same here #TBP
Thank you for posting this. It was very considerate of the Ethyl corporation to produce a narrated video tour of the penitentiary before it was demolished.
Agreed. The public deserves/needs to see this
i can only imagine the amount of drama that went threw these "walls" .
The guy who tried to fly over the wall was my celly his name was Jew babe from Norfolk Va. He thought me how to jog.This man run all day from morning til night.Thats a true story he still locked up 40 yrs.I come in as a young boy he thought me how to respect men and never be or accept disrespect.
I left him on Buckingham.He said he tried flying now he going to run if he ever get another chance.😁He was a real good guy.I hope and pray he made it home the right way.
@@latifkhaliq2380 Amen, God Bless him for his mentorship.
Hey
latif khaliq my dad had a journel when he was there in 1977. He spoke of taking 4 "flying A's" to get high. Any idea what drug hes referring to?
Taught u how to run
I bet you know some crazy stories! Love from Scotland brother 💙
Excellent video. Being from Richmond, this really brings back memories and was very informative. Thanks for sharing.
"I left early to get ahead of the line at the liquor store" lol. I like when he pronounces dates.."18 and 65" etc. This is fascinating.
I wonder why
I'm wondering how the man managed to climb the wall and then sit on the ceiling ?
At night passing by the prison you could see the inmates shadows in their cells through the lights/light of their t.v. screens
A fact that’s always misrepresented is:
VA’s chair was 💯 not made by inmates....the chair, head/leg electrodes, and associated hardware, were built by the Carl Adams Electric Co in Trenton, NJ in 1909...The Adams Co. also built South Carolina’s chair.....
That's true it was
wow, the band room@ frames 23:15-18 still had my guitar scale charts (chart number 1 was missing) still hanging on the walls. I place them there during '84
U taught me alot thnx
I thought that was cool! I said "Hey was that pentatonics I just saw?" I had to go back and freeze on those.
You mean 1900 and 84
There is a company there called Afton. I worked there and there was a rumor the the electric chair was where the cafeteria is.
I worked there as a Correctional Officer in 1979. The things I’d see would never get boring. J P Mitchell was the warden then too.
If I had to do time, i'd much rather do it in a place like this than a modern,sterile corporate run prison. Sounds like they allowed plenty of privileges . Dead head Inmates, those who didn't work or go to school were allowed to wander their section, play chess,cards,checkers, etc. Television, wash your clothes in buckets....Sounds odd to imagine these small things as important , but I can imagine it made their time pass quicker . These old buildings actually have some character too them...the windows alone would be a treat ...just being able to see outside would make the time less dreary . I've never been in prison so I'm simply looking at it logically ...I've been in a modern prison to visit , half hour and the place was creeping me out. Ah...the good old days...even the jails were far superior !
That's not something I am sure is true at all... lol.
You need to find some stories of people who was incarcerated here. It was absolute Hell. Gang rapes, stabbings, murder and people going over the tiers every day. Ex cons say it was the worst of the worst place to go, period.
Lmao oh yeah and lack of fucking cameras and Idk about you but I didn't see a single shread of netting for those 5 tiers, long fall. Oh yeah and those older prisons are falling the fuckkkkkkkkkkkk apart and guess what you can make from all of that rusted out worn metal? 🗡
Inmates were allowed to do more back then. As far as rec like boxing, lifting weights, and some other sports. Smoking was allowed. But there is no way you would rather be at that place than a modern prison. That was a violent place. And no cameras or human rights to hear your complaints.
I’ve been in Attica Penitentiary in 2015-2017, it still has bullet holes in D block. I’ve been in this prison for scared straight and saw ole sparky.
"THE place to go." Thanks for this. I always wanted to know what it was like inside there. I love you
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@Bryon Stephens Hey,driving by that dark ,sad place,we could feel it. My son was in several prisons from Va to OR and he sent me the link to this video. Think he remembers the place on Belvidere as a kid because we'd always silently say a little prayer
I'm sorry you ever had to set a foot in such a place.
My pops done time here when I was 5 years old. My mother could bring him home cooked food.
Yeh you ain't doing that no where now the good ol days are over
@@dustindaniels8917 lol…the good old days are NOT going to prison.
Banky pound bought me here 🥊🥊🥊
Was looking for this comment! Banky a G!
"Brought"
2x55 seconds is absolutely crazy!
It's the amps that kill you not the volts
🤦🏻♂️ - you live in Louisa County?
There's a few things you'll not hear spoken about concerning this prison. Back when it was closed down archeologists went in digging around. One thing they found was that part of the prison was built right over top of a prison grave yard. Remains were found but no plaques to identify them were found.
Another thing they don't tell you is when they closed Spring Street down they took the electric chair to the new (At that time) prison Greenville and fried 7 people the first 6 months of it being there.
FYI. These 2 idiots down play the whole prison experience. They make it sound like a sunday school class compared to what it really was. I've known many who were there. All say it was a hell hole where guards did whatever they felt like doing to whatever prisoner!
I bet it was Haunted had an Effect on the whole place
My brother in law is nobody’s idiot.
Bryon Stephens I guess when you commit crimes you should live as if you were in a five star hotel?
Awww..poor murderers and rapists 🥺😢
I would think that anyone watching this would already assume that pulling time here was no walk in the park. This video was made from a historical perceptive.
I'm sure both of these fellows could tell some harrowing stories about life inside here.
I liked this. Thanks for sharing.
I believe they're wrong about the chair being constructed by inmates. Almost every prison says that but it usually isn't true, it's something that gets handed down. The chair (electrical equipment, chair and all), was actually designed and constructed by a New Jersey man named Carl Adams. Adams built the electric chairs for New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina. The chairs themselves were built by a company called the Trenton Pattern Works, back in the early 1900s. There was a little controversy when Adams installed the chair in VA, back in 1908, because he got a third of the balance up-front, another third when he delivered the equipment, he got $500 for installing and was supposed to get the remaining balance upon completion of the first execution. However, the state of VA didn't execute anyone for a few months, which left Adams in a bind, as he was a small businessman who went out of pocket for the items needed. The total cost of the electric chair in 1908 was $3,800.
19an4 and 19an5. 18an65 19an80
ManM’s
@bankypound you should do a review video of this aint this the wàll you was talking about
very cool video.
If I was facing Virginia's electric chair I wouldn't fight it know that I'm going to lose
As bad as these old dungeons seem, I’d take it over these modern, sterile panopticons any day.
Last words : does this thing have a recline?
"No, but it has a very vigorous Massage function".
🤣🤣
Who bought the building and what is it
great video, love it
Enjoyed, thank you
Anyone know the name of the travelling prison band they are talking about at ua-cam.com/video/LhJX4WzKg18/v-deo.html
I wonder how many ppl got bummed in there over the years...history is interesting
The warden is much easier to follow and listen to than the guard, and things of that nature.
I feel like the guard was great
@@victorpena3129 Different strokes I guess.
Who gives a fuck
@@victorpena3129 same.
‘Deaf chamber’
I did alot of time there.
whats a bilin??
Something used when making soup?? LOL
Value My Freedom..
Like I Value My Life..
In Swahili..
Uhuru - Freedom
Banky pound brought me here 🥊 TBP 4L
What year is that?
Ghost legs behind his head at 44:50
My dude that is crazy
Large windows are across from the cells. You're seeing the reflection of people walking outside of the facility.
Thomas Jefferson designed this prison too bad it couldn’t have been a museum
Wrong
At 42:25. He talkin bout why they raised the fence to the too of each tier… Oh the inmates throw.. Blah, they like to break our windows… damn criminals… how bout the fence is also there to save the life of some1 who aint built for that shit. Someones melon splittin apart from 4th teir Is BAD
Who was the wall walker??
No... The guy who died is Paul Walker
I really enjoyed the video. The prison was obviously outdated by many of today's standards but if you had to do a serious amount of time there you did not have air conditioning or proper heat, the food was not fit for human consumption and lots of violence behind those foreboding walls that they didn't show you.Again I loved the tour but I wish the black gentleman would have spoken louder, I could barely hear him.
Correction for you the black gentleman talks perfectly clear i guess you mean the white guy.
The black guy was very well spoken.
Winder = Window
Was over this old guys house one day and he was talkin bout his 5 winder chevy truck.. And my ex asked the same question lol. But je calmly explained u see that clear thing right there thats a winder lmfao
🤦🏻♂️
Did y'all here wut the man said at 47:12...? Said a inmate wud be sitting on the ceiling and walking up the wall..and they designed a cell so any future inmates couldn't do it...?????? How in the hell...????????
if everything in this world was free how many people would still be in prison.
That’s my brother in law.
My family’s Dr worked as prison Dr for 40 years
I wonder how the black guard is doing today. Good I hope, seems like a good man.
Dead
This billon was divided into 4 sections. Very old billon.
The billon? Like a billon dollars? Split into 4 sections thats 250 millin. 😆
@@Sophia13-16are you stupid or just stupid ?
Os it true that the inmates had counterfeit money ..the plates
Cruel and unusual...America usually wants cruel.
That poor Correction officer misses his job
46:43
Wait! WTF!?
You Incarcerated Spiderman!?
..what is it now? here in New Zealand they make these or old mental institutions into haunted mazes or laser strike 😎 ..i love laser strike!!!
It was torn down years ago.
A veterans memorial sits on the site now.
@@devalsmithThat’s next door it’s corporate warehouses now don’t think many of the buildings were used though
shout out to Banky Pound 🥊 🥊
A real prison when they treated inmates as adults
No Commercials!
Wooooooooh!!!!
Banky Pound
When I was a child when ever they used the electric chair! Our lights would cut off! Richmond would lie and say that wasn’t causing it but it did! It basically traumatized me because I would know what was happening! I didn’t know that the people did something wrong! I thought they were frying them for nothing!
that was messed up how they could fry people like that
Not at all, those are people that made those harsh choices and have to face the consequences. It’s not like they fried people with just minor felonies these were hard cold killers that have absolutely no remorse for those they’ve taken the lives from so why should we feel remorse for the way they were taken out of this world , do you think they felt as much pain as all of the people they’ve killed and the families that had to deal with that? Nope not even close to be honest the only reason that chair shouldn’t have been a thing is so these people can continually live in torcher for the rest of they’re lives for the hell they’ve put on others that are innocent
@@eawatahatanguatama383 many white people were electrocuted dumb ass go read a book
@@RETIREDAMATUER I never said anything about the color or race of whom was getting electrocuted dumbs ass where you read that apart at? My comment clearly just say PEOPLE stupid learn how to read and comprehend stupid woke idiot lmao.
Banky pound brought me here
Every one of these folks speak so slowly. This documentary would be half as long if these people were normal
Alot more normal than people today.
@@coolbreeze1627 that’s the truth..
Around 10 years ago around 1970 or 80..wtf 😂😂😂
back in nine teen n ninety the 4 inch main was completed allowing efficient transfer of vasoline to the prison
sounds like you know all about that vasoline
@@robertyoung7823and you should be thankful for that knowledge missy
@Sara Allison how so?
Sara Allison when is the last time you were in a man's prison where people are doing 125 years mad and horny as fuck? The way I saw dudes weren't really getting beaten and raped but dudes that were weak or scared would get turned out. Fucking sad.
@Sara You never been to prison......Most laughable comment on this thread
I find it hysterical how these days inmates complain about how they're treated and how bad prison is, it's prison, it's supposed to suck! Back when this prison was in use, I'm sure it was much worse. Prison is a deterrent just as much it is a punishment, if it was nice and fun, what would be the point?
You have no clue pal no clue, this video makes it seem like a vacation although it was more like hell
@Donnie good! I hope they all suffer, that's the point, prison is supposed to be a nightmare.
Lot more privileges back then, but a lot more violence...if would've preferred the more violence and privileges of back then then the shit they have today
A lot of inmates got their checks busted by booty bandits.
i see all kindsa dudes posting shit like this all time.
homoerotic fantasies.
Spring Street dont make punks you was a punk when you came.A man is a man is a man.If you week you week minded.
@@latifkhaliq2380 bro it's "weak" not "week".
@@treymcferrin4027 Thanks .But i made it out!
@@latifkhaliq2380 Hell yeah. Glad you survived.
Ghosts 44:50
Yoooooo.... I saw that
@@phillipmoore6900 ikr, crazy crazy
That was not a ghost there were workers on sight that day removing scrap copper and other stuff from those tiers that day
I know Jew baby, what about the Steed College graduates and the schools that graduated people with Bachelor's degrees.1981 500 Spring St.
Utube Wes Watson.
Then: Wes Watson funniest moments 1,2, n 3
Tallk about the parties.The women the club we called it club Spring Street.And all the fake money that was leaving out the PENN.Anything you wanted you can get in Spring Street.We partied every month and alot of baby's was made in there.The C O was doing the same as inmates.if the price was write and it always was.
One thing i took from this journey in my life.I never wanted to be here ever again. I left the D.O.C in 92 never to return.Thank GOD!
@Sara Allison i did 8 yrs and10 months.
I did Buckingham,Powhatan and South Hampton
I had family at Red Onion
worr = wire
Wtf is wrong with the guard...
I don’t have no respect for ah black man that works in any typa law enforcement or fought in any war after the civil war, and in 50/50 on that. The way America had and has treated us i don’t think i could stand and fight with no pilgrims. And I’m not an racist person. But em pilgrims have treated the human race in general so messed up over the years its a shame. So any black man or woman that teams up with em in any capacity to oppress why you’re the lowest of em all and your ancestors are flip’n over in their graves. (MY PERSONAL OPINION)
Nobody cares, go back to Africa.
*YAWN...*
Black guy thinks a football field is 300 yards long
50 multiplied by 2 is 100 how did you get 300 outta that?
That black man is very educated. What about you ?
What a dumbass…. Wow.
The black guard sounds like a woman when he speaks I thought it was a woman until I looked at my phone lol
Well he’s 100% man.
@@alisacoggins3336 So you THINK
I've heard women speak with deep voices like men. What's important is that they can speak.....right??? 🙄🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
@@mikeoneil5770
🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️ He has a VOICE and he can SPEAK!
Boring
500 sping street in Richmond va. Is the Address . Alot of poor souls 💔 died there.
Banky Pound