Ex con here. I feel like prison is needed and most of the inmates were cry babies. If you take away jails it would be like the wild wild west. Do your time, reflect, and change your environment when you get out. Doing 3 years in the pen didn't make me wanna come back. And I was a trustee in the pen. Worked in the infirmary, and got to walk around the unit like I was free. Then I became a porter for the warden(janitor for Wardens office). I was likes by all and respected and never had any problems. So that would be an excuse for me to go back right? I get to do what I wanna do as a convict......why didn't I go back? Because it was my job to rehabilitate my criminal mind during my bid to stay free when I got released. A real convict wouldn't be on camera like that anyways.....these are all cry baby inmates. Quit getting out and coming right back.....simple as that
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.
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.
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 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.
If you're 67 68 yrs old now, that would have you born in 1954 or 55. That would put you incarcerated before kindergarten. Are you lying or still insane or was this a typo?
@@jimmydean5663 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 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..
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.
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!
@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
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.
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!
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.
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.
That's crazy I live/spent 75% of my life living in Bucks county a stones throw away from the correctional facility Glad I found / subbed this channel earlier this summer. Bad ass content, keep up the good work
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.
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
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
@@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. 🤦🏾♀️
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.
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!?
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.
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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?
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 .
I can assure you 1,000% absolutely , Bucks County Prison is still to this day is majority populated , both Male and Female, by drug/alcohol offenders. This system doesn't work. I was born and raised 15 mins from BCCF and 45Mins from the worst parts of philadelphia , one of the largest open air dug markets on the East Coast. I pass by this prison on my way to work/home every day I turned 16 at the millennium. 1999-2000. I know many many many people that have been thru B.C.C.F. and even a handful who are in there right now. Not one person has ever talked about it being "correctional". If anything it's a stop on your way up state. The suburbs of philadelphia are awash with drugs. Its seems nothing has changed. This really pisses me off watching this video. What the F bucks county. 50 years and the system still is the same old sad story. How embarrassing. My little brother did 6months in BCCF in 2016 for drug offenses. He was a fentanyl addict. He had no treatment opportunities while in that jail. No detox program. They cut him loose in October 2016. He made it 8 days before he overdosed and died. I'll neve forget when he came home from there , I was of course happy as hell to see him. Ge literally laughed while telling me how much dope was in there and how he was easily able to maintain his high alongside the rest of the jail population . Man , watching this video burns me up.
Your right almost every prison is. Its sad because they get the addicts no help or help with structure when they leave and they end up dying after getting a rinse dry detox in prison cuz a small amount can kill them. Addiction all together is awful and very hard. I quit many drugs in life but dope is very hard to shake
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.
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.
@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
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.
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.
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 .
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
@@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
Ex con here. I feel like prison is needed and most of the inmates were cry babies. If you take away jails it would be like the wild wild west. Do your time, reflect, and change your environment when you get out. Doing 3 years in the pen didn't make me wanna come back. And I was a trustee in the pen. Worked in the infirmary, and got to walk around the unit like I was free. Then I became a porter for the warden(janitor for Wardens office). I was likes by all and respected and never had any problems. So that would be an excuse for me to go back right? I get to do what I wanna do as a convict......why didn't I go back? Because it was my job to rehabilitate my criminal mind during my bid to stay free when I got released. A real convict wouldn't be on camera like that anyways.....these are all cry baby inmates. Quit getting out and coming right back.....simple as that
Well said respect to you goes to show some can be rehabilitated only if they realy want to like you did respect to you from the uk
Quit acting hard just because u got out the penn. Dudes that come out the penn always the ones getting murked because they are big mouths
Excon also and agreed.
I prefer the wild west. Everyone was armed. Prison rates were low.
Inmate from Alabama did 4 18 yrs ago and i agree 100%
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.
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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.
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?
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.
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...
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!
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.
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 UA-cam search and type in kev Mac video
@@stephonwilliams5232 I can't get it to post correctly. Search moster kody and og cutes interview
1970: it doesn't work
50 years later and all we've done is double down.
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.
I am so interested. Can I ask you a question?
If you're 67 68 yrs old now, that would have you born in 1954 or 55. That would put you incarcerated before kindergarten. Are you lying or still insane or was this a typo?
@@jimmydean5663 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.
@@jimmydean5663 thank you for having common sense
not something want to declare to the world
Had an uncle that was in the old mansfield in ohio around about this time. He said it was no joke!
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
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?
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..
19:20 wish we still had people who thought like this amazing way to describe it
*"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
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!
Another great video 👍
This is when jail and prison populous still somewhat had respect for one another.
Guy talking at 8:30 is like someone you'd meet today he's not a creature of the early 70s
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
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.
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.
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.
Great Channel you got here!
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'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 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.🙏
I was born in 1971, geez I'm old.
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
That's crazy I live/spent 75% of my life living in Bucks county a stones throw away from the correctional facility
Glad I found / subbed this channel earlier this summer. Bad ass content, keep up the good work
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
White and blacks together talking in a cell..this time is over now
Bro this was over 50 years ago? Life is weird
I love this documentary
LEGENDARY CHANNEL
Lol dude was like.... come on just give us a little paint thinner
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.
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
This channel is crazy
Great Documentary, Awesome Warden, good human being....
Never seen a warden be so direct and understanding. He has solutions and advice in a time way ahead of everyone else.
Good Doku!
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....
"Put trust in any man in here " are you 100% sure about this
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
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. 🤦🏾♀️
Those young men would be in their 70's now (if they are even alive).
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
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.
GodBless all you guys
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.
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
KEEPING IT REAL🤔🤔👍
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!?
Lol.. Even prison inmates back then looked and talked different.!!! Most of todays Society has fallen to the sewers!!
The man at about 8:00 is just right. So correct. But nothing has changed and its the same you know
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 👍🏾
Act like an animal, get treated like an animal. It's not difficult to understand.
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
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1971 or 2021, don't like being locked up then obey the laws. Or jus don't cry bout it please ur depressing me
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?
Whoever you are, you be having the 💩!👍👍
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
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 .
These guys are just talking. They ain't saying nothing. Just blah blah blah. Nothing I heard made me think.
22:20 Is that Artie from The Sopranos?
ReAl OGs not these 23 year old who claim to be ....
I can assure you 1,000% absolutely , Bucks County Prison is still to this day is majority populated , both Male and Female, by drug/alcohol offenders.
This system doesn't work.
I was born and raised 15 mins from BCCF and 45Mins from the worst parts of philadelphia , one of the largest open air dug markets on the East Coast.
I pass by this prison on my way to work/home every day
I turned 16 at the millennium. 1999-2000. I know many many many people that have been thru B.C.C.F. and even a handful who are in there right now.
Not one person has ever talked about it being "correctional". If anything it's a stop on your way up state.
The suburbs of philadelphia are awash with drugs. Its seems nothing has changed.
This really pisses me off watching this video.
What the F bucks county. 50 years and the system still is the same old sad story. How embarrassing.
My little brother did 6months in BCCF in 2016 for drug offenses. He was a fentanyl addict. He had no treatment opportunities while in that jail. No detox program. They cut him loose in October 2016. He made it 8 days before he overdosed and died. I'll neve forget when he came home from there , I was of course happy as hell to see him. Ge literally laughed while telling me how much dope was in there and how he was easily able to maintain his high alongside the rest of the jail population .
Man , watching this video burns me up.
Your right almost every prison is. Its sad because they get the addicts no help or help with structure when they leave and they end up dying after getting a rinse dry detox in prison cuz a small amount can kill them. Addiction all together is awful and very hard. I quit many drugs in life but dope is very hard to shake
10:32 “Tge breeding ground for homosexuality is jail” now 60 years later it’s Rapid
Wow 1971, your good man☄️
Life is what you make it. A nail that sticks up will be hammered down
37:00 in the bol talking straight facts! 50 years later his plea still resonates
Doesn't look like much has changed 😕
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.
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.
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.
@@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
WOW, that one guy could Leo DeCapprio and Steve Buscemi's love child !! 37:45 😂
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Nothing wrong with prison, If you don't like it, obey the law !
Ignorance is bliss..
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.
HI
The law in this country is vendictive!
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?
Richard Kuklinski 1:56 lol
good eye
"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 .
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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
I hate when people refer to prisoners or undesirable people as animals. Never understood that. Animals IMO are so superior to humans.
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?
Is this Eastern State Penitentiary?
Gotta be. To much mixed races hanging out.
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
Still dark & evil world.
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