MISSOURI STATE PENITENTIARY-PRISON AND GAS CHAMBER TOUR -JEFFERSON CITY, MO-EP27

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  • @OurJourneyInMyles
    @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому

    Check out our latest (7-22-2021) and equally interesting prison tour: OLD MONTANA PRISON AND AUTO MUSEUM COMPLEX | DEER LODGE MT | ONE OF THE BEST WE HAVE VISITED | EP189 is at: ua-cam.com/video/4zVBlQVpocQ/v-deo.html and our first tour (12-23-18): YUMA TERRITORIAL PRISON STATE HISTORICAL PARK-YUMA,AZ-EP40 at: ua-cam.com/video/0Wn1bjRZ2dk/v-deo.html

  • @btcameron2431
    @btcameron2431 4 роки тому +20

    as part of my sentence for a felony conviction, i was brought here for a day long tour and they left us in a room with a couple murderers to talk to us. It was an experience i will never forget. I was facing 14 years. I havent been in trouble since. Freedom is more important than anything. nice work on the video

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  4 роки тому +2

      When I was growing up, I was sort of a small time vandal & cigarette thief. Thankfully,......when I was caught I was YOUNG enough that I got off easy, and SCARED enough by the police and adults involved that I LEARNED I was going in the wrong direction. This tour for us brought all those feelings back to the surface for me. Taking this tour can be a powerful experience,........

    • @btcameron2431
      @btcameron2431 4 роки тому

      @@OurJourneyInMyles yeah ive been wanting to do the public tour but iam concerned about how i would feel once i got there. i think i would feel blessed that i straightened my act up and never had to go for a long sentence.

    • @ijnfleetadmiral
      @ijnfleetadmiral 7 місяців тому

      @@OurJourneyInMyles A friend of mine spent a year in prison when he was younger for check fraud. He'd just arrived in the system and was going through in-processing at the State Penitentiary in Starke, Florida when the lights started flickering. When someone asked what it was the guard told them, "They're testing Old Sparky...there's an execution tonight." He said that experience stayed with him for a LONG time (naturally). He served his time, got out, and hasn't been in trouble since.

  • @leahoguin7500
    @leahoguin7500 4 роки тому +24

    I visited my dad a few times there in the 90s. It was a very interesting place

  • @d.jean7014
    @d.jean7014 2 місяці тому

    My daughter just did the over night tour investigation. My brother was in there for 4 years in the early 70's. He was never the same when he came home.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 місяці тому

      I can believe it. The facility was dead serious business. So sorry for the folks that unfortunately find themselves involved in the system.

  • @OG1919
    @OG1919 5 років тому +30

    I spent 17 years there. I wish I could do a video and tell the history I know from late 70s until 1990. I did take a couple tours.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому +2

      Glad you eventually made it out. This was a very scary & serious tour to go on for many of us, and we all could see that this place was no joke at all. That is why we made the video. The humor was thrown in to keep the viewer relaxed,....I certainly wasn't,..... especially when we went into the real dungeon that was used. Next week (June 9th 2019) we are publishing (Episode 68) our visit to the Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp, in southeast California, used to incarcerate 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War 2. That video is informational, sad, serious and hopefully a learning experience.

    • @mostly_3rd_trombone869
      @mostly_3rd_trombone869 4 роки тому +1

      If you’re able to and comfortable doing so, you absolutely should make a video. First person accounts and stories tell so much more than any article, tour, or documentary ever could. Maybe you could even do episodes like Larry Lawton does with his prison and theft stories, assuming you’d be comfortable doing so. I know I’d love to hear about your experience, and I hope others would too.

    • @HarveyTalksPrison
      @HarveyTalksPrison 4 роки тому +2

      I was there from 88 -93. Just did a tour

    • @jaywalker712
      @jaywalker712 4 роки тому

      If I knew your Initials I would probably know you.

    • @jaywalker712
      @jaywalker712 4 роки тому +2

      @Thomas In late 72 or early 73 a man named Dent from St Louis was killed. He had mental problems and was out on the yard taking a sand bath. Several guards came for him and he did some real damage to them, a while later in lockup he was found hung .

  • @МорганГуинн-х2ш
    @МорганГуинн-х2ш 5 років тому +6

    I was just there yesterday (Tuesday. November 5) for a school trip. It was cool. We also went to the capital

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому +1

      Great education visiting this place!

    • @МорганГуинн-х2ш
      @МорганГуинн-х2ш 5 років тому

      Our Journey In Myles yes. It was very cool. I had fun. We listened to music on the bus played games. Then went to eat at Pizza Hut. The part that sucked was we had to get up and get to school at 5:00am.

    • @davidmirza9125
      @davidmirza9125 3 роки тому

      Jefferson City is a pretty city

  • @donaldtheking1026
    @donaldtheking1026 3 місяці тому

    I was there in the 90s…There use to be a sign that said..’leave all hopes and dreams behind’…wild place..once my custody level went down,they moved me to a lower level camp…I was a teenager then…crazy times

  • @moviedog1
    @moviedog1 2 роки тому +1

    I toured the New prison a couple of weeks before they moved the inmates. Then I toured this prison right after they moved the inmates to the new prison.
    I got to tour before any of the building were torn down. We didn't get to tour a couple of buildings because they were a crime seen. A few of the inmates had built a fake wall and killed another inmate because the person changed his mind on escaping, so they killed him.
    The tour you get to go on is very much worth the money, very interesting with all the stories.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 роки тому +1

      Wow. Hopefully the new one was a vast improvement to inmates lives and rehabilitation prospects while serving their sentences. We are scheduled to go on a "Rotary Prison Tour" in Indiana in a few weeks. Make sure to check that episode put!

  • @davidmirza9125
    @davidmirza9125 3 роки тому +2

    Sonny Liston was there for awhile, learned how to box from a preacher there, he got so good they were putting 2-3 prisoners with him at a time

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому

      It was actually a great success story to hear about from the tour guide.

  • @kimberlyanderson3346
    @kimberlyanderson3346 4 роки тому +3

    Thank you so much for this. My husband was there from 1999-2004 and he has ghost stories.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  4 роки тому +3

      Wow,.......this place sure has plenty of emotion still locked inside its walls.

    • @kimberlyanderson3346
      @kimberlyanderson3346 4 роки тому

      ​@@OurJourneyInMyles So many stories! Between him and a friend we know that lived there a lot longer....he mentioned being in the yard and if anything happened, the guards would just start shooting from the towers. Ricochets and bullets wizzing by. But...of all the prisons they lived in, this one left a mark that actually makes them want to come back and see it again.

    • @vripp757
      @vripp757 Рік тому

      They do have guided ghost tours people can do at night.

  • @briangleason5597
    @briangleason5597 3 роки тому +2

    Awesome tour. Thank You. Very interesting.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому

      Our pleasure Brian! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.

  • @oliviawelter3271
    @oliviawelter3271 5 років тому +5

    This is a good video! I am subscribing!

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому +1

      Thanks Olivia. We really have fun making these because it is just a hobby for us as we travel. Glad you subscribed so you don't forget about us and miss the next episode! Tomorrows video is Sue & I touring some great Napa Valley Wineries. She is so much better at her editing than I am. I think her EP66 is great. My EP67 coming the following week will test your loyalty though,....stay tuned!

    • @oliviawelter3271
      @oliviawelter3271 5 років тому +1

      @@OurJourneyInMyles I will! I'll also contact my friends to tell you about your awesome channel!

  • @tammycox9789
    @tammycox9789 3 роки тому

    I live in Missouri and this prison was still in use when my class took a school trip to Jefferson City

  • @raoulroberts2024
    @raoulroberts2024 2 місяці тому

    Reminds of why I always out to keep living on the straight and narrow.

  • @JCrozier1
    @JCrozier1 2 роки тому

    Awesome tour. I live kind of close to the Ohio State reformatory, and with their a couple Summers ago. I've always been interested in this one and the Nashville penitentiary that is not open to visitors. I'll have to check out your other prison videos.

  • @laimawolf6826
    @laimawolf6826 3 роки тому +1

    This is actually very interesting :0
    Nice video!

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому

      Glad you liked it Laima! We understand it is a sad subject overall,..........but nonetheless IS an intriguing part of history to learn about.

  • @bradgrabill9271
    @bradgrabill9271 5 років тому +4

    Woah this is a great video!

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому

      Glad you liked it. It was very sad and interesting being there,.......needed a little of the humor to take off the sting of the whole experience.

  • @OurJourneyInMyles
    @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому +1

    I just received a comment from Harvey, a past inmate that has a UA-cam Channel called "Harvey Talks Prison". ua-cam.com/channels/0jkt35hgxErrwdTAidebdg.html He talks about his experiences while doing a life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections, and the reality of prison life in the hope that he will help someone avoid the fate he had to endure. It is honest, raw and heartbreaking. Definitely worth checking out if you liked our "Tourist" video, and would like to know the real story. He also wrote a book about his experience available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B096TRWY29/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_PRRVX3N8WFWNWPAG8880

  • @melvinbaez9948
    @melvinbaez9948 4 роки тому +2

    I like for them to check out the one of the oldest prison here in the state of Connecticut witch is called Osborn years back was called summer’s Connecticut

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  4 роки тому +1

      Every state we visit, we alway search for our favorite subjects and things to do. We have not done any east coast states yet!

    • @melvinbaez9948
      @melvinbaez9948 4 роки тому

      @@OurJourneyInMyles it be dope just to know that are oldest prison is haunted I did jail time in Osborn is not a nice place is more like a freaky place 💯💯💯

  • @JodysJourney
    @JodysJourney 5 років тому

    My brother was a guard there for years. The prison, and that area of town, was hit by a tornado this year. Oh, and I had my last big high school reunion at Prison Brews. 😊❤️

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому +2

      I can only imagine the stories he has about this place. Granted,...it is a sad facility to be incarcerated in, but it was extremely interesting to tour, and the history of some of it's famous inmates was cool to learn about.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому +1

      @@caitlyndickerson863 This facility is closed now, but it is one of the best preserved examples of a recent, real prison allowing tourists to visit. Highly recommended.

  • @mrjlbarrett5556
    @mrjlbarrett5556 5 років тому +1

    I am a full timer
    I have a home in Boss Missouri .
    By Rolla .
    Go to the Meramac Caverns in Missouri theres a Camp site and hotel .

  • @gayle861
    @gayle861 2 роки тому

    i use to visit some of my friends there , yep they all doing good in life...i remember when they opened super max up in there .

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 роки тому +1

      Glad to hear about a few happy endings Gayle.

    • @gayle861
      @gayle861 2 роки тому

      @@OurJourneyInMyles i am happy for them too .... i liked the visiting room there , it was big and i did like the guards who was out there ..it was in the 80s ....

  • @robertpolkamp
    @robertpolkamp 5 років тому +5

    Great editing..

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому +2

      We love to have fun with our travel videos so we don't bore people to tears. My wife Sue is SO much better at editing than I am. I try to listen and learn from her, but teaching an old dog new tricks is tough. Thanks for the pat on the back,....

  • @dailydrivers450
    @dailydrivers450 3 роки тому

    Just moved to Jeff city and doing this tour this month so excited looks crazy

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому

      This one is one of the best we have went on, as well as our Episode #189 visit to the Old Montana Prison in Deer Lodge.

  • @gd198070
    @gd198070 5 років тому +1

    Very interesting video, what a grim place to be incarcerated. Glad you were only just visiting 👍

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому

      I am not being funny when I say I should of been taken here when I was young. A good "scare" would have helped a lot. I was a naughty boy in grade school, and I could have ended up on an entirely different path. Luck was with me, and I avoided most problems, although I did become an engineer. Now of course, I am a puppy dog.

    • @gd198070
      @gd198070 5 років тому

      @@OurJourneyInMyles Now that we are mature adults I look back and just wonder what I was thinking when I did some really dumb stuff when I was young. I am also happy that I got through adolescence OK to mature into an engineer.

  • @debbie10stars
    @debbie10stars 5 років тому +4

    Interesting, but sad that people chose to live this way😔 thanks for sharing 💕

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому +1

      Sue & I love to visit places that can tug at your heart as well as fill it. Reality sometimes is hard to process, but this place scared me plenty. This is possibly the most complete and awesome "closed" correctional facility to visit.

    • @heatherjackson2520
      @heatherjackson2520 2 роки тому

      Why does ignorance have to equal judgment. To think it's as simple as the thousands of people in there just "choosing" to live that way. Sure you've heard of the prisoners getting off after decades proven innocent. Did you see how insanely difficult it was? think of the thousands that don't have that opportunity. A man there for life cause at 17 he shot his younger brother's repeated rapist that lived up the street when his parents didn't believe them. Think that's the only story like that? Think of the movie The Green Mile do you think that was just totally made up?Do you have any idea how hard it is to prove self-defense? And then your sent there for decades and robbed of all the basic human necessities. Have to crap in front of dozens of people, no privacy ever, no choice in what you do ever, no kids playing, no girl trips, no wine tasting. Then you get out and everybody assumes you just "chose" to go there so they won't give you a job. So then what? No I've never been in prison but I choose to know about things before I judge them.

  • @jaywalker712
    @jaywalker712 4 роки тому +3

    The late 60's early 70's was a violent time at the Walls, hardly anyone got anymore time for killing other inmates. Bobby Rutan and Billy Hoskins killed Dave Moyer and Dee Dee, clerks in C-Hall in 1973. Donald Wyrick was warden and he walked the yard without fear and inmates respected him. In early 70's death row was released into general population and some pretty wild cats come to live in population. Gas House Willie Coleman killed over a dozen in a small bar and Booth tried to get too fat to fit into the death chairs. Some real bugs.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  4 роки тому +1

      These are the stories that have way more meaning when told by folks that are in the know,.......

  • @kampdog
    @kampdog 3 роки тому

    I got a personal tour of that place back in the late 90s with the superintendent.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому

      That must have been intriguing to tour it while still in full operation!

  • @Unknown_Ooh
    @Unknown_Ooh 2 роки тому +1

    The place is much cooler and creepier to explore when it's closed and don't have a bunch of clueless tourists wondering about.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 роки тому

      I can imagine how interesting a private tour would be at dusk!

  • @kansasgirl73
    @kansasgirl73 2 роки тому

    My paranormal team is doing an investigation here in September. Can't wait!! 👻👻👻👻

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 роки тому

      In 2 weeks we will be visiting one of the few "Rotary Jail Museums" that were ever built in Crawfordsville Indiana.

  • @jasonodoniel6434
    @jasonodoniel6434 4 роки тому

    Went there last year a day before Christmas 2019 never went inside but saw how old it looked all the walls slowly coming down or taken down scary to know that people where exicuted there I would love to take a tour of the I side one day thanks for the video

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  4 роки тому

      On May 22nd 2019, a tornado did millions of dollars damage to this facility, as well as many other state owned buildings in Jefferson City. Time will tell how much money the state will budget to renovate this piece of history.

  • @maryruble4365
    @maryruble4365 2 роки тому

    I loved the reactions from Mark great commentary

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 роки тому

      Glad you enjoyed Mary. The prison museums are all a little tense!

  • @laduranm
    @laduranm 3 роки тому +4

    The Shawashank Redemption

  • @Diamondranchfarmstead
    @Diamondranchfarmstead 5 місяців тому

    I have booked a history tour tomorrow of this comment. But in the email and waiver they ask that you don’t record anything. 😢😢

  • @lollygaggin6332
    @lollygaggin6332 2 роки тому

    I went a few years ago, In the cell block with the cat walks I froze up walking across. I have a pretty qnarly fear of heights. Video does no justice for how big this place is.

  • @lasutherland2
    @lasutherland2 5 років тому

    Kind of sad to watch this. That area where he pointed at the guard tower and residential neighborhood was recently his by a tornado and was completely leveled.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому

      Agree with you,...it was a sad place. I wish they had more programs in place to take new, young offenders to places like this to see how their future will be if they don't make changes. This place makes an impact on you.

  • @56Spookdog
    @56Spookdog 5 років тому

    Many years ago my dads friend was a guard at San Quentin, he was one of a handful of guys that ran the gas chamber.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому

      That had to be a tough job! I will NEVER complain about being a Mechanical Engineer for 40 years ever again,.....

  • @StarHaz
    @StarHaz 2 місяці тому

    wher u obtain files

  • @dlivex9492
    @dlivex9492 2 роки тому

    Probably they don't know that ones it's night time there it gets hunted which you will be able to hear sounds those who pass in that prison.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 роки тому

      I thought I remembered they had a night time tour during the high season?? That would be interesting.

  • @Jenbrinkerjackson
    @Jenbrinkerjackson 5 років тому +2

    Cells are kind of cool

  • @mattwinter7392
    @mattwinter7392 2 роки тому

    Is this Saint Joseph

  • @rsgfamer5631
    @rsgfamer5631 3 роки тому

    I went when the tornado we didn’t get to go to th Dugan

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому +1

      It was sad to hear about the tornado damage to this museum. Glad we saw it all in one piece!

    • @rsgfamer5631
      @rsgfamer5631 3 роки тому

      I know

  • @mrjlbarrett5556
    @mrjlbarrett5556 5 років тому +4

    If the walls could talk

  • @sejfzlrrhman
    @sejfzlrrhman 5 років тому +2

    Wow, this was a really good video.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому

      Thanks for the nice reply. Make sure you look at our similar, somewhat serious videos, EP42 about the Abandoned Sedona Amphitheater and EP33 about a "soon to be" ghost town in Texola Oklahoma!

  • @SpidaStayFly
    @SpidaStayFly 3 роки тому

    Mo city lit like that 💯🔥

  • @Zul353
    @Zul353 Рік тому

    You know this placed his haunted?

  • @Q-ey2jk
    @Q-ey2jk 5 років тому

    Nice vid

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому

      Very interesting, scary and sad all rolled into one. This is one of the best, most complete and recently retired corrections facilities to visit.

  • @danchant5342
    @danchant5342 5 років тому +1

    I thought the blue buildings at the beginning of the video were the gas chambers! Interesting tour

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  5 років тому

      I guess under certain controlled conditions this would be possible,......

    • @davidmirza9125
      @davidmirza9125 3 роки тому

      No the gas chamber there is very very small barely big enough for a normal size adult to get into without ducking

  • @michaelthompson8409
    @michaelthompson8409 4 роки тому

    I worked there from 92 to 2000 sure didn't look like that.

  • @HarveyTalksPrison
    @HarveyTalksPrison 3 роки тому

    Did time there. Hell on earth

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому

      Harvey,.........just watched some of your channel. I have pinned a comment under our video directing folks to view your content to see what it was really like. I wish you the best with the gift of your second chance that you earned the hard way. You spoke directly to one's heart,.....

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  • @_CARKENT
    @_CARKENT 2 роки тому

    Same exact height as mark lets gooo

  • @Carter_R
    @Carter_R 4 роки тому

    I live in Jefferson City

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  4 роки тому

      We thought is was a great little town. Sorry to hear about the tornado that came through and damaged this historic tourist site.

  • @jsteele42378
    @jsteele42378 3 роки тому

    If places like this were still used less people would commit crimes.

  • @stewartwilliams2086
    @stewartwilliams2086 4 роки тому +1

    don,t drop the soap in the showers mark lol

  • @krystianhuff777
    @krystianhuff777 2 роки тому

    My dad did 18 years here for murder before I was born. I visited his old cell. We live in saint louis, MO. Place is really messed up

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 роки тому

      We agree,.....all the prison museums we toured make your heart ache for the souls that had to endure the punishment living there.........

  • @earlmcnish6017
    @earlmcnish6017 2 роки тому

    Don't even make sense they had to close it because it was unsafe for prisoners but it's okay for tourists to walk through it that's some funny s*** right there

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  2 роки тому

      It is a fantinating tour.

    • @heatherjackson2520
      @heatherjackson2520 2 роки тому

      A few people walking around for an hour is a little different than 5000 people living there 24/7

  • @ramosman0469
    @ramosman0469 2 роки тому

    Prison break

  • @S1L3N7xGHOST
    @S1L3N7xGHOST 4 роки тому

    That accent tho.

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  4 роки тому

      We now realize that we could move to Minnesota or Canada and no one would know!

  • @tcvideo4060
    @tcvideo4060 3 роки тому

    Very walking deadish

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  3 роки тому

      It was a scary place even for tourists like us,.......

  • @Carter_R
    @Carter_R 4 роки тому +1

    I live in Jefferson City

    • @OurJourneyInMyles
      @OurJourneyInMyles  4 роки тому +1

      We thought is was a great little town. Sorry to hear about the tornado that came through and damaged this historic tourist site.