Exploring The Real Shawshank Prison - Shut Down in 1990

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  • The Shawshank Redemption was filmed in in Mansfield, Ohio at an old prison called the Ohio State Reformatory. Taking a tour of this amazing old prison is absolutely worth the time and money.
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  • @ernestj3081
    @ernestj3081 Місяць тому +32

    Shawshank Redemption One of the best movies ever made. 👏🏻👊🏻👍🏻

    • @BlueLineSwineExposer
      @BlueLineSwineExposer 8 днів тому +1

      I think there is many non criminals who will never do time in a prison that would probably love to come and rent a cell for a couple of days and stay as a guest in a place like this just to have a real life experience of what convicts must have had to endure for long terms in the past . What do you think? Please reply to me

  • @MonicaLitman
    @MonicaLitman Місяць тому +30

    I was born and raised in Ohio so the reformatory was still in use while I was still there. I didn’t know Shawshank Redemption was filmed there. Thanks for the tour Chris

  • @Jared_Wignall
    @Jared_Wignall Місяць тому +31

    It’s awesome to see you go though the prison that The Shawshank Redemption was filmed in. It’s one of the best films ever made and it’s cool how places like this give tours as for many places similar to this either just shuts down again when the shooting of a film ends and nobody is allowed to go inside or the building or buildings are demolished and something else might be built in its place. Keep up the great work Chris, have a great rest of your day and take care!

  • @hamlufet
    @hamlufet Місяць тому +31

    Made me wanna rewatch the movie. So awesome to learn about the history of this place. Thanks for touring us, Chris.

  • @magnamanv45
    @magnamanv45 Місяць тому +55

    I served time there from 1980 to 1984, 4 years. It was a living nightmare. The cells only had cold water, there was no hot water. A trustee would walk the ranges with a water can like they used at a gas station for filling radiators. You knew he was come cause he would be yelling "Hot Water!". The food was horrible. You would find rocks in it and Brooks wasn't joking about finding maggots in your food. Now, I know a lot of people say it's haunted, but, after being there for 4 years, I never seen or heard any ghost. Never heard any other inmates see or hear them either. So, if it is haunted, they came after I left. The thing that really surprised me was, I would see inmates return after being released and violating parole. Not me, that place straighten me right up. Another thing, it would be freezing in the winter time and scorching hot in the summer. When you first get put into population, you were celled on the second range. The first floor was to infested with rats to house inmates there. But as you did your time, you would get moved a lot. As time went by, you would slowly move up the ranges. The closer you get to the top, the closer you were to going home. But the problem was, as you moved up, the hotter it would get. My last 6 months was spent on the 6th floor, top range. It would get up to 100 degrees at night in the summer and 120-140 in the daytime. I remember when I first went in, I weighed about 240 lbs. When I got out, I weighed 125 lbs. It truly was cruel and inhumane punishment.

    • @michaelhiles5350
      @michaelhiles5350 Місяць тому +18

      Yo I got there right after you left 137327 made it to j dorm worked greenhouse cut the grass around the headstones slaughterhouse 7 cows everyday 25 pigs on Wednesdays plus we had 48.000 chickens worked 7 days 18.00 bucks a month enjoy your life brother

    • @terrybellar7661
      @terrybellar7661 Місяць тому +8

      119753 funny how you never forget your name!

    • @1martymcfly298
      @1martymcfly298 Місяць тому +4

      How old were you when you did the four years? I know it was about 40 years ago. Thanks for the interesting information and for commenting on the video.

    • @user-zm4rw5bs3x
      @user-zm4rw5bs3x Місяць тому +5

      I knew Andy Defresne, and Red. We use to play chess together. Than one day, our friend Brooks was unexpectedly paroled.

    • @magnamanv45
      @magnamanv45 Місяць тому +2

      @@1martymcfly298 I was 18, got out when I was 22

  • @lesliewachter1275
    @lesliewachter1275 Місяць тому +19

    I was just there a couple days ago. Never saw the movie but highly recommend touring the reformatory and paying a little extra for the Behind the Bars Tour. You won't be disappointed and all the proceeds go towards restoring the prison.

    • @NeighborhoodOfBlue
      @NeighborhoodOfBlue Місяць тому +7

      I can't fathom having never seen this movie, let alone touring the prison without having seen the movie. Please watch it! You won't be disappointed.

    • @lesliewachter1275
      @lesliewachter1275 Місяць тому +2

      @@NeighborhoodOfBlue I plan on it!

  • @scottrider641
    @scottrider641 Місяць тому +14

    This facility is close to my home. I have visited a few times. You did a great job capturing the best points of interest of the tour. Thanks for this great, well presented video. Thanks, Chris. Great job as usual

  • @jodysales2362
    @jodysales2362 Місяць тому +25

    "Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine- or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields; just shy of half a mile." Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

    • @joshuapaul349
      @joshuapaul349 Місяць тому +1

      He must have had a hell of an immune system.

    • @jmr1068204
      @jmr1068204 Місяць тому

      Red never was good at math, apparently. 500 yards = 1,500 feet, which is not "just shy of half of a mile" which would be 880 yards or 2,640 feet.

    • @AlonnahCasey
      @AlonnahCasey Місяць тому +1

      I can repeat that in my soul, you can literally feel the heartache in Red's voice, beautiful comment ya know that's life for us all I'm afraid

    • @jodysales2362
      @jodysales2362 Місяць тому +1

      @@AlonnahCasey one of my favorite movie quote and I can't hear it with hearing Morgan Freeman's voice. Lol

    • @AlonnahCasey
      @AlonnahCasey Місяць тому

      @@jodysales2362 facts cookie 🍪

  • @AlonnahCasey
    @AlonnahCasey Місяць тому +5

    This is by far my most favorite movie of all time, the story is heartbreaking, Thank you for sharing

  • @MattWoodworth
    @MattWoodworth Місяць тому +9

    Great video thank you I live in Ohio myself & appreciate it when people showcase what our state has to offer

  • @Liz-cmc313
    @Liz-cmc313 Місяць тому +3

    Excellent tour of one of the best movies ever made. Thanks Chris.

  • @DrQuagmire1
    @DrQuagmire1 Місяць тому +85

    funny how the inmates had the balls to sue this particular prison for inhumane conditions, and yet, look at the crimes they committed that brought them there in the first place. what does that tell you??

    • @Kuypers125
      @Kuypers125 Місяць тому +23

      That you have no problem sounding like a sociopath

    • @dennisneo1608
      @dennisneo1608 Місяць тому +3

      It tells me the world is topsy turvy!!!!

    • @Ganiscol
      @Ganiscol Місяць тому +12

      I'll just quote Mr. Dostoyevsky, because he is still right:
      'A society should be judged not by how it treats it's citizens, but by the way it treats it's criminals'
      Of course, the US is still failing miserably on most counts. Not least because of the privatization & industrialization of punishment over actual rehabilitation.

    • @NeighborhoodOfBlue
      @NeighborhoodOfBlue Місяць тому +11

      That humane conditions matter, and that torture doesn't lead to reform.

    • @NeighborhoodOfBlue
      @NeighborhoodOfBlue Місяць тому +3

      @@Ganiscol You are a good person

  • @playmangostingiu2217
    @playmangostingiu2217 26 днів тому +1

    Thank you for giving us the opportunity to take a glance of how looks like this place. I'm a fan of that movie, it's a masterpiece, I watched it several times, never tired and always noticing new details. Thank you so much

  • @cosmos7492
    @cosmos7492 Місяць тому +4

    Amazing video thanks for showing us around Chris enjoyed it as always

  • @flatlineracer3207
    @flatlineracer3207 Місяць тому +6

    Wow this is one AWESOME video! From one of my all-time favorite movies. Thank you.

  • @GraveVisitations
    @GraveVisitations Місяць тому +2

    Loved this tour thanks Chris. One of my favourite movies

  • @davem8836
    @davem8836 Місяць тому +4

    I'm always amazed at how quickly things deteriorate if not maintained.

  • @LyonessQueen
    @LyonessQueen Місяць тому +4

    Thanks for sharing! Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies ❤

  • @larrybuckner8619
    @larrybuckner8619 Місяць тому +6

    Now I gotta go rewatch that movie.

  • @wendysmith8246
    @wendysmith8246 Місяць тому +1

    Chris Thank-you!! One of my favorite movies!! So cool to see this!!!!❤

  • @frankwafer6919
    @frankwafer6919 Місяць тому +4

    Thank you for the wonderful video,it was an excellent movie!🤔💯👍!

  • @dml5053
    @dml5053 Місяць тому +1

    love this!....one of fav from your channel ...great job!

  • @ToddEWalnuts
    @ToddEWalnuts Місяць тому +1

    Cool video, Chris. Shanks for uploading this and bringing us along. Shawshank Redemption is such a classic movie. One of the best ever made. It was cool to see behind this scenes with your tour. Have a good weekend. Thanks for all that you do to provide us with entertaining videos.

  • @R118GSiVVC
    @R118GSiVVC Місяць тому

    Amazing tour, thanks Chris!!

  • @nikkigardiner9426
    @nikkigardiner9426 Місяць тому +3

    Thank you, Chris! ❤

  • @mikebas7325
    @mikebas7325 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for taking us on this tour with you, had no idea that movie was filmed here. I'm not too far from the area, might have to take a tour of it.

  • @raymondhoagland4976
    @raymondhoagland4976 Місяць тому

    Very interesting and informative, thanks for the tour Chris !

  • @deloradeabel8487
    @deloradeabel8487 Місяць тому +1

    Fantastic tour!TY

  • @minimumrage323
    @minimumrage323 Місяць тому +9

    Greatest movie of all time.

  • @emke9326
    @emke9326 Місяць тому +1

    What a treat! Thank you for this😊

  • @fritz1990
    @fritz1990 Місяць тому +2

    Awesome video. Thanks! Loved the Shawshank redemption movie.

  • @randywatson2
    @randywatson2 Місяць тому +12

    That’s a great movie. Watched it for probably the 20th time last weekend

  • @kellymcgrane2690
    @kellymcgrane2690 Місяць тому

    Thank you Chris!! Great tour. Very informative. I've seen the movie About a dozen Times. 💓

  • @justhavinfun9492
    @justhavinfun9492 Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for the tour! 👍

  • @Pandaluv75
    @Pandaluv75 Місяць тому +2

    Cool tour. Awesome to see all the cool stuff

  • @dennisneo1608
    @dennisneo1608 Місяць тому +1

    Chris, you're a great documentary maker.
    Shawshank is one of my favourite movies. Top 10 for sure.

  • @Perspective125
    @Perspective125 23 дні тому

    Thanks very much for your video. I've watched just about every documentary ever made on the Mansfield Reformatory. Learning about the various stages of Work Farm to Incarceration, etc. It's fascinating! You've done a wonderful job, especially interspersing your video with cuts from the movie, great work!

  • @dianemakarevitz798
    @dianemakarevitz798 Місяць тому +3

    Excellent video, Chris! I love Shawshank Redemption and Morgan Freeman so this was a real treat! ☮️❤️

  • @theathjr
    @theathjr Місяць тому +2

    My top 3 favorite movies of all time. This video was AWESOME. I have to visit before I’m done on this earth.

  • @billgoeckel6344
    @billgoeckel6344 Місяць тому

    Awesome video thanks for sharing this !

  • @MaarkiMarko
    @MaarkiMarko Місяць тому +2

    I enjoyed the movie Shawshank Redemption, and I enjoyed the tour of the prison it was filmed in. The chapels condition is so sad. I remember the video you did at the prison in New Jersey. This was very interesting! Thank you, Chris.

  • @catcrazy67
    @catcrazy67 Місяць тому +2

    Fascinating tour I need to visit Im about 1 hour north of Mansfield in Ohio

  • @terrysmith7076
    @terrysmith7076 Місяць тому +1

    Fantastic video I'm a big fan of Shawshank movie. Thank you for sharing ☮️

  • @gborch
    @gborch Місяць тому +2

    Great video man thank you so much. I love that movie. You have no idea how many times I watched it maybe 50 times that’s no joke. I wonder how they ended up with that boat and did they fix it up?

  • @Carolbearce
    @Carolbearce Місяць тому +1

    I love the movie Shawshank. Thank you for sharing this with us.

  • @dezertraider
    @dezertraider Місяць тому +4

    FANTASTIC..ONE OF MY FAV CHRIS,THANK YOU,,SAFE TRAVELS

  • @Little_Man152
    @Little_Man152 Місяць тому

    Great video. Enjoyed it very much. 👍

  • @andrewbryce7927
    @andrewbryce7927 Місяць тому +1

    I love this movie. That was so cool 😎 to watch. Thanks, Chris. appreciated 😊😊

  • @MrPocketfullOfSteel
    @MrPocketfullOfSteel Місяць тому

    Hey Chris!!! I believe this bumped another video out of your "Top Ten." Very well done, IMO. It's not often after watching a video, that I stand and actually applaud. I did for this one. haha! *Roll on.*

  • @EQMVB
    @EQMVB Місяць тому +1

    AWESOME video!!

  • @MSlank
    @MSlank 9 днів тому

    Great video as always. I've been watching your vids since the Wraith location episode. Just wondering what tour you did since I will be visiting it soon. Thanks and Keep it up!

  • @butters1473
    @butters1473 Місяць тому

    Man I love this. How they haven’t done it up and painted it.. it looks so cool. Thanks for the video!

  • @kimhall5863
    @kimhall5863 Місяць тому

    Really well done~thank you❗️

  • @marlyfreely74
    @marlyfreely74 Місяць тому

    excellent video. very enjoyable. thank you

  • @deannaharby5677
    @deannaharby5677 Місяць тому +2

    My favorite movie---thank You !!!

  • @jmr1068204
    @jmr1068204 Місяць тому +8

    They got the math wrong at the end. 500 yards = 1,500 feet, which is not "just shy of half of a mile" which would be 880 yards or 2,640 feet. Also, when Andy crawls out of his cell and breaks open the pipe with a rock, sewage sprays everywhere and is pressurized....yet how? The other end of the pipe was completely open, so that was impossible. One of my favorite movies, but they messed up on a lot of details that I would have expected them to get right. The opera song that Andy Dufresne plays over the loud speakers is Canzonetta Sull'aria from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro".

    • @miuqe1468
      @miuqe1468 Місяць тому

      the methane in that pipe would have killed him before he made it out

    • @jmr1068204
      @jmr1068204 Місяць тому

      @@miuqe1468 That too.

    • @minimumrage323
      @minimumrage323 Місяць тому

      Yep. This movie would have been categorized under fiction in Brooks' library.

    • @jmr1068204
      @jmr1068204 Місяць тому

      @@minimumrage323 Right next to Alexandre Dumazz according to Heywood.

  • @kennydemartini2169
    @kennydemartini2169 Місяць тому

    You were less than a half an hour from my home. Thanks for covering the prison, and I hope you enjoyed your time in Ohio.

  • @gborch
    @gborch Місяць тому

    I hope you get 1 million hits on this one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on UA-cam

  • @jamesholt7612
    @jamesholt7612 Місяць тому +3

    Awesome place and the movie was great.

  • @debbiepatrick399
    @debbiepatrick399 Місяць тому

    This is really interesting, thank you

  • @kevinclapton7835
    @kevinclapton7835 Місяць тому +6

    in the 70s i had a bad drug problem and i was here for 4 long yrs roaches crawling out of ur eggs on yhe plate ..violent stabbings rapes in the shower screams at night from new guys getting raped ...taught me to behave for the rest of my life..

  • @LenInMI
    @LenInMI Місяць тому

    Awesome videos😊

  • @dgonthehill
    @dgonthehill Місяць тому

    ty for tour

  • @cardinaloflannagancr8929
    @cardinaloflannagancr8929 Місяць тому +3

    There are a few areas you need to get the guided to for them to be included. The one is a catwalk (west attic), that looks straight down you can see on the self guided tour somewhat through a door up on the top tier. Plus you were able to go in the yard and the guard tower (weather permitting though). Also the sub basement. I did the self guided and can't wait to go back and see the rest. One thing I learned was the shower scene where andy meets Boggs. That shower room actually you do not stay in place that one was called the car wash. As you actually walk continually supposedly to prevent soap dropping or things of the sort. Along with in theory at least a more efficient and consistent time for people to go through.

  • @AutoTradingCaveMan
    @AutoTradingCaveMan Місяць тому

    very well done........ thankyou

  • @mikecarr1484
    @mikecarr1484 22 дні тому

    Probably your best video.

  • @Salty_Balls
    @Salty_Balls Місяць тому +2

    I've been through the Halloween Haunt at Mansfield several years. We started the haunt on the stairs at 20:45, going up into the offices, eventually through the mess area and cells. It's a fantastic haunted attraction.

  • @samanthab1923
    @samanthab1923 Місяць тому +2

    Very cool. Remember first seeing this place on Scariest Places 07. GH was there in 05 but didn’t name it. GA followed with 09. 👻

  • @LeslieLove
    @LeslieLove Місяць тому

    This is really cool! I would love to visit someday

  • @Gypsy839
    @Gypsy839 Місяць тому +2

    It’s a beautiful building❤

  • @supermullaney
    @supermullaney Місяць тому

    Now that was very very cool!!

  • @wvcaver774
    @wvcaver774 Місяць тому

    I remember seeing parts of this place from US 30 back in the 70's and 80's and gave me the shivvers !!!

  • @martinUTFR
    @martinUTFR Місяць тому +1

    One of my favorite films 🎬

  • @n8BDetroit
    @n8BDetroit Місяць тому

    That’s very cool! 🎉

  • @lookup17
    @lookup17 Місяць тому +5

    Ohhh, I’ve been there numerous times, let me tell ya, some of those prisoners have never left. Serious paranormal activity there. Great vid!

  • @AbandonedExplorationUrbex1979
    @AbandonedExplorationUrbex1979 Місяць тому

    This was very interesting. 👍

  • @b_doc6142
    @b_doc6142 Місяць тому

    Dude, I love the content, but I feel like I need to send you a Olight marauder mini LED flashlight, to help you out with your lighting that would make a big difference in your videos then a camera light or a lot of the other videos I watch. For example, this one in the dark cell. but when you do caves, etc., that flashlight would definitely enhance your content to have much cleaner brighter light

  • @ritagail4559
    @ritagail4559 Місяць тому

    Wow I really loved seeing this you have such great content I love everything about it thank you for sharing this I would like to see more like this and I enjoyed the video that you and Lamont did on Emmitt till that young man suffered beyond belief plz do more content like this thank you again can you do one on auchwitz I hope I got that right

  • @b_doc6142
    @b_doc6142 Місяць тому

    Love the content I went 20 years ago when they did a yearly haunted house, which is awesome at the prison I don’t know if they still do it or not

  • @robrichter1236
    @robrichter1236 Місяць тому

    I'm a lifelong resident of Mansfield and have never taken the tour, thanks for the video.

  • @Colorado_Native
    @Colorado_Native Місяць тому

    Thanks for the tour. Well done. Next, The Green Mile location.

  • @ronaldmiller2740
    @ronaldmiller2740 Місяць тому +3

    THE PRISON JAILS LOOKED LIKE A GIANT HUMAN ,,BIRD CAGE LOOKING UP AND DOWN.. THANKS ,, CHRIS...

  • @johnbender5356
    @johnbender5356 Місяць тому

    loved it

  • @andriaphelps2744
    @andriaphelps2744 Місяць тому

    Nice job doing a video. when I went to the prison I try to do a video of the place didn't work out.

  • @gokathygo
    @gokathygo Місяць тому

    That was a great movie!!

  • @Bigknucklesandhands
    @Bigknucklesandhands 24 дні тому

    You gave me the dime tour, thank you Sir

  • @alrise1776
    @alrise1776 Місяць тому

    Shawshank is one of my favorite movies. Tombstone is my # 1 favorite. The Green Mile was great too

  • @passat4862
    @passat4862 Місяць тому +1

    Very cool thanks! One of a cupal moves I can recite every word. This one and forest Gump lol

  • @eddiehoppe
    @eddiehoppe Місяць тому +2

    Brooks was here, So was Red, Now Chris.

  • @MrJusduit
    @MrJusduit Місяць тому +2

    This was a Great Story of a Movie. They dont make Movies no more like this!

  • @arjanpetersen
    @arjanpetersen 29 днів тому

    insane building

  • @mikeschumacher9715
    @mikeschumacher9715 Місяць тому

    That place is amazingly huge.

  • @jburnett8152
    @jburnett8152 Місяць тому +1

    Nothing is worth even one day. I've seen the movie several times. It's always been one of my favorites. Morgan Freeman was great in this movie. Thanks Chris. I'll send you a cake.🎂

  • @IntoTheUnknown420
    @IntoTheUnknown420 Місяць тому

    Never seen the movie all the way through. Something i need ro do. But love old places. I want to check out Moundsville.

  • @Hangmanaudits
    @Hangmanaudits 25 днів тому +1

    2nd Video love prison history , I visit prisons and police stations in Scotland .

  • @DMWBN3
    @DMWBN3 12 днів тому

    Shawshank, one of the best films ever made. I remember seeing it when first released.

  • @wulf76
    @wulf76 Місяць тому +1

    I visited this place before and it is huge plus you can take haunted ghost tours also

  • @ritagail4559
    @ritagail4559 Місяць тому +1

    Can you plz do one on al copones old hotel on Michigan and cermack in chicago plz try thank you mobile instinct your awesome

  • @user-io8tu7dj2l
    @user-io8tu7dj2l Місяць тому +2

    A little trivia for you, Morgan Freeman was also in the movie Brubaker with Robert Redford in 1980.filmed in Town of Junction City Ohio, Morgan had a small part in it playing an inmate in solitaire.that prison is no longer standing.i lived about 8 miles away from it.some of my friends were extras in the prison yard seens.i love both movies.

    • @user-dj7wv5ok2x
      @user-dj7wv5ok2x 20 годин тому

      That prison IS still standing; in the rooftop scene, a part of the "Brubaker" set can be seen.

    • @user-io8tu7dj2l
      @user-io8tu7dj2l 6 годин тому

      The prison from Brubaker is definitely long gone filmed in junction city Ohio. I should know I lived close by for years.the only thing left is the restaurant, house,and the part about the fairgrounds which is perry County fair.the only thing on the site is used for a junk yard,,,, Mansfield Prison is still standing.

  • @fredwilliams6843
    @fredwilliams6843 Місяць тому

    Thanks.