Inside Parramatta Prison (Correctional Centre)
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2024
- Come with me as we go inside one of Sydney's oldest prisons. It was originally known as Parramatta Gaol/Prison and was later named Parramatta Correctional Centre. The prison closed down in 2011 but it's dark history still remains.
The prison is currently owned by the Aboriginal Land Council.
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0:00 - Parramatta Prison Intro
1:22 - Prison Processing Centre
2:23 - Prison Visiting Rooms
4:54 - Prison Cell Block (Wing 6)
5:10 - Underground Cells (Wing 6)
9:24 - Prison Phones
10:31 - Prison Outdoor Toilets
11:31 - Prison Basketball Court
12:05 - Inside Prison Cells (Wing 6)
21:09 - Prison Courtyard
22:00 - Prison Shower Block
23:00 - Outdoor Torture Prison Cells
24:43 - Prison Oval
25:07 - Prison Watch Tower
I have spent all up 6-7 years in and out of Parra Prison. In that time I seen things that would shock the strongest of people, lived in most of the wings and even spent 6 weeks in the old segregation called “The Circle” that was the most horrific gaol segregation I have ever seen, and I can walk and talk as 26 years total is enough experience. My min number is 100253. I would love to see inside Parra now and relive some really horrific, gory and heartbreaking stories. Love to go on the tour. Maybe spend the night on my old cells.
That would've been in the 70s when the circle was in operation?
Lol...Id say 1 in a million would use the shit house next to the the Squash court...Shitting & shower in the nude in front if blokes is pretty normal in jail😂😂😂
Parra was its own little world 300 odd imates on the yard & oval everyone doing what they had to do, then just over the wall there's people going to work, cars going past, houses across the road ect..that's the only jail I use to sit there & spin out on it. Imate to screw ratio was crazy as well. Summer was the worst especially at the back of 6wing the sun would still be baking on the wing til 8pm...Deadset ovens... The back side of 5 wing in summer was best coz it was facing south & didn't no sun..ask anyone imagine been locked in for 1 day at 40 degrees plus with no air flow. Now imagine 3days..Bathurst in the summer was alot more bearable than parra.
Did you want a badge are you just dumb or plain stupid who wants to go back and sleep in a cell the spent 6 years in you obviously didn't learn anything in the 26 years you spent in jail
I hear you bro, 100773. smyley.
Awww Pedro Cuz, You’re Back with your Socials. Glad to hear it.
Awesome video mate!
That’s one place that’d be awesome at night.
Also love the KJ Show! You and the crew are #1
The green rooms are exercise yards for only an hour a day.
Interesting video tour, cheers. I remember as a kid in the 80's my parents driving past there and telling us that's where we end up if we misbehave. There were always guards up in the towers with rifles over their shoulders, along with all that old sandstone it made the place look pretty terrifying. I never realised how big it was in there, or how shitty and dungeon like it was.
My mum worked in the linen service which is connected to the jail for over 20years. From what I can remember that area was used for laundry and it provided employment to the inmates. I remember as a kid me and my dad would pick mum up at like 11pm and I always remember seeing the guards patrolling with there massive guns up on the watch tower I remember hearing people screaming fighting some nights while waiting in the car for mum to finish work. Definitely has a lot of history up in there and you could imagine what would have went on in the jail. This was a great video to share very interesting to see how the jail looked on the inside I had goosebumps
Sick video bro. I really enjoyed it. ❤
How did you go about visiting the prison? Did you have to buy a ticket to go in and have a look or can you go in during the day and visit whenever?
Hey, thanks so much! I organised it with the current owners (it’s owned by the aboriginal land council) you can find them online 😊
What plans do they have for it ,great video
Very well documented Pedro, I have driven past Parra Jail numerous times and have always wondered what it looked like inside. What was the reason the jail was closed? Seems like a waste of facilities now. New sub #408 to the channel, looking forward to more content Pedro.
Thank you, I tried my best! Appreciate your comment 😊
I worked at Parramatta Jail as a social worker from 1999-2002. I was offered a lot of bribes by the families of mainly Italian and Lebanese prisoners, because if they were reported as being suicidal, they could be referred to Cumberland Clinic and spend the remainder of their sentence in a psychiatric ward.
No
Most we're transferred to D-wing Longbay
Rogerson
Why would you go there it’s worst parra was a holiday camp you never wanted for nothing as you could get a drop every night and who want a red card saying your a spinner allways 2 out can’t be by yourself in a cell no thanks
Done time in Queensland jails Woodford was worse than Boggo road Jail & time in NSW Long Bay & Silverwater Qld Jail's much rougher than NSW jails the Screws bashed me so badly I was on a toilet bowl wheelchair for a while couldn't walk or run was in agony the screws called me a hypochondriac & gave me Panadol tripped down stairs in Boggo road Jail & broke my right side pelvis in 3 & half places got stabbed in Long Bay Jail in the throat chest & stomach had a collapsed lung with air bag then breathing again even worked like a slave & a Trojan for my own buy up money but got ripped off totally broke & poverty stricken I had nothing I survived on bartering gambling & trade left Marrickville by bus from Central Station to Brisbane early New Year 1989 lived on the streets of Fortitude Valley fighting for my life being hunted down like an animal into near extinction ended up at Redcliffe by default in the cop shop cell for sweet fuck all I did wrong tried to call my parents in Sydney but the digits of the number had changed then I was told no more STD phone calls from lock up I was in the police cell & insurety papers were served but couldn't get access to money for bail went before Magistrate & a cop was smoking cigarettes that I took from a shop smashing the window with a rock & he was laughing his head off all the charge was on Remand Boggo road Jail then swapped over for maximum security No.2 yard on my 21st Birthday on the 22nd of January 1990 I nearly got murdered I was 19 yrs old when I first went into hell in those jails the Governor of Silverwater jail let me go I had no rights to any phone calls or visitors or to write a letter illegal & unlawful imprisonment I had shocking insomnia my life was a nightmare I never dogged or grassed anyone I witnessed so many evil things & the media mass media advertising journalism etc put me through hell with vilification by putting hidden cameras & microphones in your premises as well as phone tapping & intercepting phone calls on landline phones & even worse things happened but I survived it
Nice video bro, I like prison and gang content, I’m an Aussie aswell, from QLD, Brisbane, never been down to Sydney or even New South Wales, this is awsome I didn’t know that Parra was Abandoned now either tho, always heard about NSW jails, heard Parta used to be Rockin n Rollin too, shit used to get Crackin, I also worked in Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre (used to be called “Sir David Longland Correctional Centre”) and we had to strip out for Demolition the old Maxo Unit, that had been closed for about 12 years tho, it shut down in like 2012 or somethin cause a dude had hung himself in the very last cell, and they always kept it shut and then on like the last day we had done everything and it was just that last cell, the screw (gaurd) opened it up, and in the back corner in the outdoor cage at the back, no bigger then a small bathroom that’s it no bigger, and just seen a bloody shirt the blood was brown and some latex rubber gloves like paramedics or medical gloves next to the blood and bloody shirt, it had just been left there all that time untouched. I thought it was a bit eerie that they had just left it there, but yeah the whole feeling in the place was strange, it would be kinda worse at night tho for sure, it defenitly had some bad vibes to it.
Those underground cells in 6 wing are crazy! I was locked up here in 2007 while on transit. I’m pretty sure this is Australia’s oldest jail
I think Melbourne jail or Fremantle prison might be older, but I am only guessing
@@brandonmccarthy7660I would’ve thought parramatta would be the first prison
Bathurst was 1888 possibly oldest
Port Arthur may well be
Ok Richmond gaol is 5 years older than port Arthur.
Richmond Gaol is the oldest, still intact, gaol in Australia. It predates the penal colony at Port Arthur by five years. The gaol was erected by convicts in 1825-27 in several stages.
Great video mate! How did you get access with no one else around?
When I was an apprentice boiler maker myself & another guy made the large front gates & we made a lot of cell doors inside & bed frames would have been 33, 34 years ago.
I was an extra on Home and Away when they filmed a prison riot at Parra Prison. Never been in the correctional system, however the actors and stuntmen littered throughout being picked up and thrown within the chaos was extraordinary and, whilst fictional, the place gave me the spooks before the shoot started, during the shoot it was terrifying. Something I'll always remember. We filmed in Wing 5.
Did you pay to do a tour? How did you get access the way you did? Great video liked & subbed
Hell yeah - love this
Man I’m getting flashbacks at visiting tables .
Funny how these people wanna visit the joint.lol couldn't get me back there for $$$$
My dad was in parra jail for 18 month back in 1951 . I didn’t know until after he died.
Went to a car show a couple years back that was hosted in this gaol. Was only the outdoor areas/courtyards but was crazy to think inmates walked around in the same places around 10 years ago.
How fascinating
I was in there and one of the last to leave when it closed I was in cell 164 and sweeper later in the final weeks when it closed.
Good job showing how primitive this jail was back in the day and that closing door for sure would had been a ghost, they did film an episode of Australian crime story there.
I have seen an old sandstone large compound type building with 6 meter high walls surrounding it and its at Darlinghurst/randwick area and it looks like this jail.
I am a brave person but going to prison would be a nightmare for me, ive had bad dreams of being in jail, so bad that as a teenager i ended my criminal behavior because i was so afraid to go to prison.
I want to make a music video in this jail, like the music of metal trap/hip hop like in kim dracula's song "death by designer",its crazy and spooky, check it out.
that was my thoughts as well .but i was sentenced 2 times to prison short stints only .but ur only a number once inside .certainly an eye opener .
This is crazy… imagine being here for the rest of your life 😮
I spent 2 years in parra jail, the first cells you looked at ? they were for punishment, solitary confinement, inhumane treatment, they stopped using them, as they realised , inmates would eventually be freed , and those cells send people crazy, I was a sweeper in cell block 6, I had a C2 classification, which meant I was a minimum risk inmate.
I spent time in nearly all the jails in NSW, and Parra, was one of the better jails, especially as a sweeper. heaps of cook ups, we had the bottom level, tv in most cells. the cells were a good size compared to other jails, especially if you had a one out, prison life is not that bad, it’s just the routine that makes it drag on, every day the same thing, at the same time, and you wear the same clothes.
This was a good video, it brought back memories .
Oh and the outdoor cells as you put it, are not cells inmates live in, they are there for inmates waiting to go to another section or to be brought to their cells, when brought there from transport after lockdown, they built a new section for all this when I was there, those cells were closed, and you missed a whole lot more, when you walk past the showers there is a church straight ahead , I spent two Christmas there , and behind the church is the admin building and medical facility, and above the shower section is admin as well, plus further north of the jail is another two wings, the same as the cells you looked at, I was looking forward to seeing all that, filming the church should have been in the video, it’s amazing.
Thanks, appreciate the comment! I did want to go in the church, medical centre and also morgue but they were locked as some of those places need restoration work
Pentridge jail here in Victoria have locked cells as ageing wine is stored in them. So the cells are privately owned
Reminds me of Mt Eden Prison in Auckland,where i spent a few years
Which also closed in 2011. Mt Eden is much older though
the 'outdoor cells' arent actually cells to live in... theyd be temporary holding cells for various reasons....for example to chuck prisoners in while other prisoners pass through.... there are cells like that where prisoners get stay in during court days...
I would love to go here, how do you get access? Is there a tour? Great video
Hey, you should look it up online as they do tours and go from there 😊
I could only find ghost tours... To be honest I am not interested in that.. I just want pure info not spooky ghost stories told. I want to see the gaol day time like this with just pure info on it and stories that happened. One massive plus about going to Tasmania a few weeks ago was visiting Richmond Gaol. Small but awesome and jam packed with info. And also Port Arthur.
This is so such a cool video, thank you. I lived in North Parramatta about 5 minute walk from the jail for a few years, use to ride my bike past it everyday. Lucky for me I never got to see the inside so I found this video super interesting :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was there in 93' in 2 wing as a 18-year-old I was in the young offenders unit for 18 -24 year olds saw some crazy shit go down 18hrs a day we spent in those cells pretty depressing and no hardly any cells had TVs
And boiling hot in summer time especially if up-the top of wings
What stuff did you see?
Went there when it was a transit Jail, even though it was old and dirty it felt like a real jail.
was there for a while when i was younger, and now just imagine most of those cells were 2 out, the chapel was near the showers
Those cells would have been freeeezingggg
Horrrible place
They we're you only received 2 itchy army blankets to keep you warm
@@alanmac8807 oh
I did time in parra and for a jail i didnt mind it
They use that prison for tv shows that's why there's still some things there . Not everyone got a TV it was earned. Those troughs are old school for washing at. We also had those at school in the 80s
Yep ur 100% correct the screws would prepare tea & snacks for the inmates & visitors...not to mention the special tokens to get free drinks & chips from the vending machine...🤔
No screws ever made tea and coffee foe inmates you're on crack😊
6:38 Those TVs were the latest ones, if you had a Tv you were doing well 😂😂😂
it wasnt a courtyard in 1990 it was a small gym area ...with benches barbells but no dumbells because they were used as weapons in a riot
My dad was in there I remeber that meeting room and my dad would say it was the worst jail he has been in he said if it was a a dog pound it would be shut down
They actually tried to give it to the RSPCA when it 1st closed but they deemed it not suitable for stray animals it was inhumane but then they opened it for another 10yrs till I helped have it closed down the Old deputy governor was 1 of the main reasons he was extremely corrupt n a serious violent asshole
I was in 6 wing,It was maximum security. It was a shithole when I was there 20 years ago. 4 and 5 wing could go in and out of the unit all day but 6 was locked out all day. lol put a coin in the condom machine🤦♂️ there was no money, they were free. Everyone would get them and use the lube for hair gel and put the condoms in the bin. No one used the shower at the end of the wing. Next to the phones in the yard there is a gate and through the gate to the left is a massive shower room where everyone showers together. I was there in 2003. You didn’t show the drop door in wing 6 where they used to hang people. At the oval there is bullet holes in the walls. The outdoor cells is an exercise yard for people in segregation. People don’t stay in them or go in the rain. This video needs to be done by a person that knows what they are talking about. The escape happened right after I was moved to another prison. It’s a long story but they got out very east.
i thought it was a good gaol compered whats runing today lol
the condoms yes was used for that , ut mainly for stashing the drugs lol
I'm going there soon to film a video it will be my first RUclips video amd I spent 8 months in wing 6 bro so I know the ins and outs don't worry I'll do it justice
Which escape George Santos when he jumped across the roofs?
What crime did u get committed of to get ur self in that jail ? Yes I’m being nosey
Billy Munday caved Shipleys head there in the early 80s. got life for it to after getting 58 years for his original sentence 'lovers lane reapes n bashings. one bad man back then but not so much when he told us ( young offenders the full story ) in 91 wat exactly happened n why # died 93 - 20:55 Its a yard not a court yard n i think its the yard where Shipley was murdered by Billy.
The outdoor cells are for people going to court or on escort there holding cells
Have you walked past or into a random cell and felt an uneasy creepy feeling?
My uncle lost his battle to institutional and mental trauma in there!
Place looks fkd...
Im told he used a sheet tied to the windows which makes sense now seeing how high they are...
His celly had to then wave the sheet out the same window to get help after he woke to find him..
I could only imagine the extent of what went on!
Absolute horror and madness! I went there back in the 80s and wow I tell ya first day was a real shocker as a 19 year old boy I saw things and went through experiences that no one should ever go through! I couldn't love my wife any more after that I was no longer a man I had my manhood taken and in there I got the choice of give my mouth or ass.....you could imagine which one I chose
D division pentridge had one or two open toilets down the end of the yard -everyone could see ya
OMG 😳 well I bet you glade your not going through that anymore 🙏🏻
Really your showing of the jail 😊
Definitely wasn't a nice place to be! I did 2 years here back in the 80s and on my first day I witnessed absolute horror a lot of thing that a young 19 year old boy shouldn't see or have to go through! I'll never get those memories out of my head
It was a good jail.... Except for the cells and windows being heaps high you had to pull yourself up to look out them.not much air came though sweat box in summer.
One of the best jails because you could roam the whole jail 😎. You forgot to show the gym down the back of the oval
Yeah bro, I noticed that about the windows.. super small! That gym is no longer a gym I went there but it’s just an empty warehouse haha
Well they aren’t meant to be nice hotels ey.
You forgot the skateboard sized cockroaches that would fly in the window it was hard but had some good times back in parra
Those cells underneath C wing is where they hanged who had death sentence & stories were said they use to bury in ground near where the gym used to be down behind C wing was there in 89,90
Fully sick habib
At least it shows the putrid conditions being locked up in NSW is like I been inside at Bathurst its no different...I heard Goulburn isn't any better....
Bathurst & Goulburn or sister jails
Been there to visit my now ex. Many years ago now though. Wonder where or which one his cell was 🙂
How are you walking around freely here?
Those green cells outside prob used for Aand E classo inmates for their yard time . Maybe also for bone yard prisoners as holding too
What is the process to be able to visit it? It’s like a museum kind of thing that you just buy a ticket ang go for a tour or what?!! I would love to know how to go there!!!!
Nothing fun about visiting jail mate.give it a miss. Unfortunately not a nice place.blokes did hard time in there I promise.
Never noticed the stocks/pillories at 22:20 in the shower room? Lmfao
I ran 6 wing right before it closed in 2011, you should of done some research before doing this, you are just making things up as you go along. Interesting I guess if you don't know any better.
7:46 If u grew up in a housing comish house my good man u would no that just about every single house had a sink like that n many still have in its laundry 'maybe not all but' many did i no that much. super common sinks buddy. 'they were all made from poured cement buck then id say.
Yeah, I was born and raised in parramatta and seen heaps laundry’s with those sinks. Especially in all the older homes.
Those sinks were called troughs they are concrete and had zinc around the top edge
@@user-bn5uq7qg8c I have 2 of them in my back yard, one on each side and one of them has 2 sinks and the other 3. They were given to me by a friend and it was bloody hard to move them. They are used as garden beds for herbs and the like.
Aah memories, those were the days, Min # 317773 . Putrid hole 1836 was built,thats Convict days.
Prisoners dont get prossesed there thats not reception. The truck drives in there both gararge doors close the transit officers get out put their guns in a locker then drive into the jail as you can not have weapons inside the prison
Are you talking from experience?
Just asking!
@@DIVLJIVUK yes
Was going to say the same thing (from experience in qld jails but same process). The first door opens and the truck drives in then that door is shut, the screws or cops have to hand in all weapons and sign in then they get back in the truck and the 2nd door gets opened to take the prisoners thru
45&6 wing were all used as transit over the years in 96 it was 4wing I still remember when Peter cut up his celly n flushed him man ppl will never get what happened behind those walls back in the day
@@whippycabra1328wasn't it loveday
22:54 they didnt sleep there mate, there more t5han likely the segregation cells for the day n then u go back to your cell where ever that maybe at but no one stayed there thru the nite i can tell u that right now. 'called the front yards id say like most old jail in Nsw have or had.
Why did it shut down. Why is it open to look through? Its in good condition so far 2:45
I want them old TVs
I almost killed myself with the jail kettle,they had free weights in 1999
The green cells outside it was for either for bone yard or protection and for Segregation....
26:48 nah the guards were handcuffed
They made a rope out of sheets and threw it over the fence in the yard, another guy was on the other side of the wall and held the sheets and then they chucked a mat/rug onto the razor fencing, that’s what I was told anyway🤔
I doubt the green outside cells were 24/7.
They were segro day yards. Before that, they were the boy yards (Under 18's)
A few of my bros been locked up there
Question, how did you gain access to the inside of the prison? Who gave you permission to film inside? Also, You gave a good tour but you dont really seem to know much about the prison itself or what was what apart from the absolute obvious. Not trying to put you down at all as the footage is gr8..you just seemed a little uneducated/off with the facts. Thanks for the tour though. Very interesting.
Thanks Margie, the facts or info were given to me by the owners of the prison… I tried to deliver them as best as I could - appreciate the feedback 😊
Take it easy champ, he's not a pro, maybe you can show us better.
Check with Margie next time you want to do anything Pedro lol. I thought it was good anyway. Keep going you did well showing us around.
Pedro from Kiss…what up dawg
Lot of Aussie crim shows are filmed there
This place was like from the movies hektik place to be locked up in esp wing 4 .5.6 500 inmates in one yard
Those doors would be steel not metal.
You keep saying “the doors are full metal” what else did you expect?🤣
The cell with all the tvs was creepy
It’s not wing six bro them 3 blocks were A B and C wings the bone yard was 1 2 and 3 wings I was in C wing for 18 months back in 1988-1989 before I made it out to the Emu plains prison farm I was 18 when I first went in cheers
my first prison experience was in 1999 at silver water MRRC when Lucy D hijacked a helicopter at gun point and busted out her man John Killick . Welcome to the real world,Parramatta was a hole of a prison wing 2 especilally.Min 244269 .
Why the hell is the Aboriginal Land Council looking after the old prison? That money could be going to their people that are in need.
Memories 😅😅
My dad was imprisoned there in the 70s.
22:19 An old timber stock.
Head through the middle hole, hands through the outer holes. It's split horizontally to open up the holes.
Speaking of opening up holes, my imagination sees it used by inmate's, on inmate's. Possibly they would line up and take turns.
The mind boggles. Pass the soap?
hehe, that is what I thought when I saw it then the cake of soap on the window ledge, don't drop the soap.
You went in for just a hour tour and come out saying bro cuz bro bro imagine what you be like doing real time lmao
Has no idea 😂
The bottom level you first walked into is the segregation or “segro” we call it, it’s a punishment level for if you had a crack or caught with drugs, what ever. I never been to parramatta it closed long before I went to jail, I’m to young, but long bay wings are almost identical.
Outside cells is bad prisoners outside .then back to bottom floor
Lmao very dark down here theres no light here Meanwhile theres about 100 lights on ceiling 😂
I was in the cockroch pit I the early 90s horrorable place 8 weeks was enough
My number was #310.
Funny how you still remember things all those years later.
Parramatta Jail was a shit if a place.
The call was gate.up dog when you needed to go to the clinic or coach house church or activities kitchen laundry that was coming from 4.5.6 wing good jail to do time in but summer time was stinking hot if it was 40 outside in the cell it was 65 so that's where the dogs kept them TVs 18 hour's a day locked in I done about 6 years show the showers and wash my back if you don't mind a lot of fights over them phones
Blokes doing methadone spewmantes to help their sick mate out. Petrol up🤒
Those mains gates to the wings would have been 250kg’s or more easy, not the 10-50 Kg’s your saying. Get me to take you around there and teach you what it’s all about.
Basement cells would have been cool in summer though 😂
Haha you’re not wrong on that one!
Top floor west side 6winf 50deg plus. In summer inmates cells sealed up and turned into swimming pool. 😲
“No one is breaking out of that” meanwhile 2 people escaped in 2004 😂
23:00 they r holding cells, should of got an ex crime in with you talking u through the joint
try being in Junee with 1 phone in your wing
I been in that visiting room
when you were at court all day... & you would b begging 2 get back 2 ur cell 🤦🤦🤦🤦
Parramatta via long bay , back to downing centre, back to spc then to parklea then to your parra cell 1130pm. 🤦♂️🏖
Fuck all these old Victorian Prisons look the same lol,looks alot like the Mount [Mt Eden prison] in Auckland New Zealand lol spent bit of time there on Remand and sentance over the years ,used to have piss pots in the old days before toilets were retro fitted in late 80s ,great old prison with some good memories there
That Sydney bro
@@whippycabra1328 i know i said it looks like Mt eden prison here in New Zealand didnt say it was mt eden lol
You didn't show 1,2,3 wing
Yeah, unfortunately some of the wings/areas were being restored so they weren’t accessible
Interesting look inside an old prison. Bikie Wars mini series was partly filmed there
Grew up near the place?, GO THE PARRAMATTA EELS!.
i dont know why this lad is so surprised that the doors are "full" metal lol what were you expecting Plastic?