Colorado Experience: Imprisonment

The cool and calm delivery of the historians hide the fact that this prison was hell on earth.

I served 4 yrs there. And it's crazy cause you can still see bullet wholes in the stones and chipped stones from when the riot broke out, the dinning hall has a theatre above it we weren't allowed up there do to construction. I've seen the carvings in the stone walls. Also now there is a fence that goes around the wall. The older lady in this who was speaking in what looks to be the library is or was the librarian very nice woman, they also have a license plate factory which I worked in making plates for the state of Colorado. Truly amazing place not a place I ever want to go back to but it's amazing. The inmates back in the 40s also built skyline drive. And shelf road that leads from canon to cripple Creek a gambling town. Just some more history behind this amazing prison.

I love the old PBS shows

Colorado is interesting history!!!

Very interesting thank you

Thank you “ Fifty Years” for a breath of SANITY !

Reminds Me of the Old Territorial Prison "now a museum" in Deer Lodge, Montana.

Very interesting.

My grandfather was a guard in canyon city prison for years my father told me some stories that just makes me shudder!

My Grandfather was a Guard there in the 1940"s....so interesting!

I went on tour in the 70s. You went through the cells where the prisoners were. I remember them staring at us behind their bars.

The grey haired lady in the blue smock makes prison sound like a community college with caring guards. The prisoners are predators or prey. The guards are hardened by what they see & deal with.

some of Colorados judges and cops belong there--huh Denver

Roy BestWas a great word and according to my father and my father was his favorite when he would come to have Sunday dinner because like I said my grandfather was a guard there for years in canyon city

My Father did a bit in one of the prisons in the valley. He actually had time taken off of his sentence by working on a high tension power line that came through in I think the 1950s. Does anyone remember this project? From the stories that I have overheard it was a pretty deadly gamble for the inmates.

Indiana very first prison was built in 1847 and still is standing today 11/23/19 as it did in 1847 in a Town of Old Clarksville, IN. The Town of Clarksville, Indiana was founded in 1783 by Lewis & Clarksville being one of the oldest and very first Town in America's history.

Colorado has the best prisons and skiing in the country!

That lady knows NOTHING about prison and prison guards. Social workers? ,Under graduate degrees? Rehabilitation.? I can't stopped laughing. Been there.

There’s a true crime series based on prison valley- basically the proliferation of prisons there has made the area much more unsafe than it was before all the prisons and some crazy sh*t goes on around there...

Things haven't changed much. Blacks, 7:3 also @12:00 did anyone tell this woman that this documentary was about the history of a Supermax? Social workers indeed! Not in 1871and 4 sure not now.