Inside The Ohio State Reformatory - Historic Mansfield Prison Tour
A visit to the Mansfield Reformatory in Ohio . A former prison now upon To the public for guided and self guided tours . Used in the films Air Force One and Shawshank Redemption it is an impressive place .
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today's adventure brings us to the Ohio
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State Reformatory it first opened its
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doors in 1896 and in 1983 was placed on
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the National Registry of historical
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places here in Mansfield we're going in
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here now
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I have been here back in 2013 back in
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2013 I documented segments of the
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property for my Shawshank Redemption
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filming location but today I'm gonna
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dive in deeper to the nooks and crannies
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of the premises join me shalyah next to
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the West administrative wing check out
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the floor really like the design of the
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tiles and if you peek out the window you
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can see the side angle of the building
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and an old metal gate standing there and
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a newly paved road those were used in
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the film Air Force one fact that whole
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courtyard can be seen in one of the
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shots from the movie this toy train was
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made by an inmate in the 1950s they also
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have a plate and a clock tower that were
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made here by the prison inmates here in
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the Annex this door is from the
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electrocution chamber and they have the
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electrical chair there as well as a mask
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that they would place over the face this
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hood was placed on the condemned person
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just prior to electrocution in that
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chair as well as the telephone that
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makes the call giving the order and the
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box with all the the gears and the knobs
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to make it operate just like in Green
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Mile your place the sponge upon the head
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right there didn't cool yeah very much
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that's for sure oh yeah my sister's here
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with me as well some serious heavy-duty
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blocks there as well as a straitjacket
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and some handcuffs
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I like the creaky wooden floors in here
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give quite a bit of cool ambience check
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out the ceiling this foyer is very
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beautiful
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speaking of stained glass look on the
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right there's like three huge chunks of
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stained glass leading up that staircase
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some items on loan including this which
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even hold in front of you during your
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mug shot and then you put this on and
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this is what you wore your days in the
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prison if you wanted to get tattooed you
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had to use this item made out of a
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toothbrush handle duct tape bail wire
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and the tip of a ballpoint pen and most
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likely the item on top would be
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confiscated you cannot have a weapon of
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like that in here for just a nickel you
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could purchase this little coupon which
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was good for a haircut that's the top
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part of the device you would sit in this
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chair or one like it and get your
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haircut the last time I was here a few
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years ago none of these items were here
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they were restoring the whole building
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so pretty cool to see it current deck
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these old school eating utensils and
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trays salt and pepper shakers are huge
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and this bag of tobacco has an unusual
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name nicknamed bug dust I guess that's
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what they refer to chewing tobacco as
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bug dust
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a lot of times they lived here and the
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boys were even taught to drive by an
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enemy so the wardens son was taught to
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drive by a prisoner
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there are some areas that are not
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allowed out they are roped off you can
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peek around the corner and just see a
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little bit of the abandoned areas but
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most the spots you are allowed side of
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the walls and the ceiling through this
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corridor is deteriorating most the
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bottom floors have been renovated once
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you leave that area everything else is
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pretty much how it was under this
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archway is a bathroom no longer
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operational CV rusted out sink there's a
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flower here designated for Helen a tub
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very dirty bathing area and a commode
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and the pink paint is starting to shine
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through the outer coating of white paint
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that's peeling off whoa is that bunny
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rabbit hidden pink bunny this door has
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an opening here where you could slide
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medication and it's clamped on and with
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a little hook there and on the opposite
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side there's an area that the nurse or
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the guard could just speak through there
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to talk to whoever was on the opposite
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side some serious history shining
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through here in this old wallpaper Wow
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it's like a bunch of different layers
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and different colors from decades and
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decades
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of just different layers that they
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placed on the walls the warden's
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bathroom and living quarters even some
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furniture or parts of the furniture and
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chairs quite a big area that he resided
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in went all the way into into this room
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as well
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fireplace down here to stay warm from
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the other angle looking back into the
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living area notice the roof they are
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starting to cave in there's some wire
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mesh holding it together
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but it has seen definitely seen better
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days closet area with drawers and places
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to hang your clothes you know it's
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interesting because we all have homes we
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all live you know in our houses but
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imagine living in a prison this is where
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you reside this is where this is what
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you call home slightly different than
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what slightly different for what most of
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us are used to no no no don't touch that
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don't touch you would give that would
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flood the whole place looks to be a
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little stage in that corner you can see
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some of the items that they are using
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currently just to repair and clean clean
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the place up this little cubby hole it's
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kind of interesting it's only a couple
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feet across not very wide look at the
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tile down here this leads into one of
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the the spires the tower is right up
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there that's pretty cool it's like a
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long hidden compartment
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it's a wasp there be careful don't like
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it you don't want to get stung the
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fireplace mantel has been removed I love
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this it's old light if these walls could
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talk well better yet if this light can
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talk you can definitely tell some
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stories a box of memories a box of
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memories here some old life world
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library books one of the slogans was
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Ohio's University of another chance this
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is where the inmates did their schooling
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and learning in this room here however
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if you were a troublemaker they made you
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learn in solitary so this is the
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solitary room for learning that's just
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what I think it is I don't think that's
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really what it was as the story does if
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you place the big one the chair in the
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middle of the room and leave the room
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it will move what notice the X on the
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floor just before you enter this area
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the building is so symmetrical that the
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X is always visible as long as there is
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light coming in the windows of the four
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rooms are joining the hallway oh yeah
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there it is
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that's pretty wild
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I say x marks the spot but I don't think
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there's any treasure under there it's
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just a really cool the cool ambience
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here and this little all the way there
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now gonna head further upward to the
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main chapel at one point there were two
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levels you can see this staircase that
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is now blocked off led up to a balcony
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nineteen hundred inmates could pile in
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here look along the wall you can see
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where the balcony once was this room is
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huge if you were being sacrilegious you
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get thrown up in there and one on the on
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the bottom level and there was a escape
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attempt which happened in this very room
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designated with this historical marker
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they tried chiseling out the wall right
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there this was covered there were some
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workers that would be hide behind the
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cover and overtime one of the guards
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thought what are they up to they removed
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the cover and they noticed that hole
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trying to get outdoors reading a little
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more it was a cabinet and all three of
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the inmates afterwards were taken to the
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hole and more time was added to their
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sentence after that no one was left
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alone in the chapel here's the pulpit
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which would be the view from the
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preachers perspective a very impressive
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room to say the least
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the mural on the wall above the stage
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really really adds to it
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I don't have the key she's in do you
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guys have the key hey you don't have the
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key No
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oh she got never mind she's out baby
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you're free should I call them I'm gonna
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call the guy I'm gonna call the guards
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this is the largest cell block in the
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world two-sided this is one side six
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tiers tall and you can see how far down
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it goes here's the second booth all I
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just went off the second side you can
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get a pretty good perspective down
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through here past this mesh inside this
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room there is this mechanism here take a
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look at this I think this is what opens
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the doors to the cells the guard places
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hand here turn that or this vice versa
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and the doors to all the cells on this
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level would open up
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I know I know there's really nothing we
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can do about these you doing can't live
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with regrets and here time when you're
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doing thinking can draw out like a blade
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James Lockhart was serving up to 15
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years and on February 6 1960 he took his
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own life by setting himself on fire with
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matches and lighter fluid in this very
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cell here's a photo from back in the day
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interior view of the hospital thin and
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the hospital now don't want to get any
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closer and do not want to shoot any
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footage out the window that direction
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because there is an active prison and
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there are there are prisoners in the
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yard so I'm not going to show out there
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because it's asking me not to but I did
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want to show the sign and let you know
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that on-site is still currently an
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active prison behind this one however
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this is a photo opportunity and I can
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see why because from this angle it's
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pretty incredible imagine climbing that
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winding staircase to get to the top it
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just goes around and around and around
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you can get dizzy I don't know if I
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would get tired first or nauseous from
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the bottom floor you can see the second
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level does not have the walkway
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protection it did that they have removed
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it from that point on and the top four
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levels they all have the outer gate and
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of course the bottom doesn't need it
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because no one's gonna fall off but not
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allowed to walk up on that second second
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level when you showered you did not do
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it in the privacy of your own little
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area you showered with everyone else
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which is perfectly fine unless Boggs is
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in the room just keep an eye out for box
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tucked away down here are the solitary
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confine
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sells and while there is a toilet and a
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bed
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I'm not seeing a sink of any type when
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that door closes it's nothing but
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darkness except for that one little
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window here's an aerial view from 1964
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the building I'm in at the moment is
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this structure everything up here has
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been bulldozed and the new act of prison
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is back there but all this still exists
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that as most places you exit through the
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gift shop
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I am surprised however to see that they
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are selling laser discs this is not a
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DVD or a blu-ray this is a this is a
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laser disc huh I do like the series of
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books they are very informative this
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image of America series and for the
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person who has everything the the gift
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escaped