A Walk Through Old Joliet Prison (Joliet Correctional Center)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- In this video, I take a leisurely walk around and through the Old Joliet Prison (Joliet Correctional Center), located in Joliet, Illinois.
The prison was in operation from 1858 through 2002, after which it was abandoned and essentially unsupervised until just a few years ago. During that time, vandals, arsonists and time took their toll. Only recently has it become available for unsupervised personal exploration (aka self guided tours). From time to time, guided tours are also offered.
Many people have seen parts of this prison during the famous opening scenes from the movie "The Blues Brothers".
I passed through there when it was still open. I recall exactly what I thought as we entered the back of the prison yard and started walking. The sun beating down on me on a hot mid July day and I thought “what the hell have I gotten myself into?”, it was very surreal. The signs in the chow hall read something like “get down on the floor if shots fired”. Still can’t believe that was part of my life. It seems like a lifetime ago but also just like yesterday. I ride my motorcycle down that way a couple times per summer and purposely pull in the parking lot and just have a moment of gratitude that I’m out on a sunny day on my bike and totally free.
How did you enter the back of the prison? There's no way they would let you walk in there.
There is so much historical significance here. It makes me mad that idiots would purposely damage and destroy this facility and even the records building. What fools! Thanks for showing this tour. I live in the Chicagoland area and have driven by this in the past. I need to schedule one of these tours, looks so interesting to walk through!
@@scottgoldexperience I absolutely agree
I was in Joliet C.C. in 1991-92. I paroled in July 1992 and have never been back. Needless to say I am a success story when it comes to Rehabilitation.
@37:00 minutes - we used that unidentified wall for playing Hand Ball. I used that exercise yard every day for a year and worked in the laundry room.
I've been out since 85. We both beat the odds. I tip a beer to ya
Congratulations to both of you🎉
Thank you for your hard work!
I had a roommate my kids grandfather who spend some time old jollet prison shortly before it closed. @@BrianUnderwood-eu6em
I am very happy for both of you, but I suspect you were the exception, rather than the rule.
The architecture is beautiful it's the same style and limestone as the water tower in downtown Chicago
I am from the UK and a Blues brothers fan👍
@@spotsterjon74cu , I'll alert the media!
I go by that prison every day pretty cool, it's worth checking out.
On 'THE HILL" the Harvard Hill, A.F. Hill Park w/chain nets...get ready for a prison field adventure...haha jects 1 and 2...
alot of memories watching this video, I worked as a correctional officer from 1985 to 1991!
I was on 2 Galary in 1991-92. My cell was next to Brian Duggen. I remember correctional officer Wisneski. He worked on 2 Galary and was always good to me. Did you know him?
@@Zippy-the_PinheadI paroled from 2 gallery in March of 91.
@@air2themax189 . I was in the cell next to Brian Duggen. Do you remember him?
How was it
Brian Dugan got life for killing the lil girl in naperville.they tried to lock Rolando Cruz up for the murder they actually did he was on death row in Pontiac
Thanks Paul! I appreciate the time you put in on these videos.
This is probably one of the best made walk through documteries I've ever watched. Thank You good sir. You did an amazing job!!
Thank you for respecting the prison and the history behind it.. unlike some of these youtubers…
Empty Prisons are a bit like Cemeteries.Full of haunting history and eerie places.Imagine how many 100s of years in sentences have been spent here.
🐾⭐️what a treat⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️beautifully detailed appreciate as I can’t get out and about 🐾🐾🐾
Thank you. Excellent job. I lived 20 miles from the Mansfield, Ohio, facility. In New London, Ohio. Very interesting getting to "visit" the Joliet one. .
Amazing I had a friend who was locked up there I remember telling
him back in the day I'll be 43 yrs old when you get out with kind
heart I send money, magazines
cards I never knew the place was
closed down.
I have loads of letters from that prison.
Why your friend was locked up there ?
Another great and interesting video Paul. When I saw Joliet prison, I thought blues brothers, but wasn't sure, but when you drove past the gate I knew. Keep up the good work
That gate (the first 5 mins or so) was the only part of the movie actually filmed in Joliet. The rest was filmed in the Chicago suburbs.
Another quality tour video from this channel. Thanks for the effort you put into these. Makes you feel like you are on site.
ufagouuuLy😊
BNEHANYYUUUYOPL😊❤
Hello Paul, thank you for sharing another wonderful video. I'd like to take this tour one day myself. There are some books printed about the history of this prison.
Interesting tour...I will try and view the Blues Brothers movie again...
Thank you. Great voice. Very well presented.
I worked at Correctional Industries in Decatur Ill. where inmates were paid to make chairs, clothing etc and paid to make the items? There was a Correctional Corp who was in the Blues Brothers for a sec at the Sallyport part when filmed here.
I also remember being in Second grade and our school brought us to this facility for field day. Imagine what its like as a 8 year old seeing this? The area we were in was empty I just remember seeing the metal pots. I'm 68 and can still see it.
At least the correction facility I worked at was nothing like this its a womens corr. center but I have been to others while working there like Menard, Dwight, Lincoln, Logan and Danville illinois Correctional Menard is one that is really old also along with Vandalia
Stumbled across your video as I'm intrigued with this type of stuff and love Prison Break! Fantastic video, Thank you sir. Keep up the good work!
A very comprehensive tour, “ Thank You” strange thing watching this video this place feels familiar & i live on the other side of the world!😳
It’s crazy I live 15 minutes away in Plainfield and I drive past the old Joliet prison all the time for work. I recently watched prison break and now I’m all the sudden so interested in it.
Great video, thank you!
Thank you for the tour of this facility! I've always wondered what it looked like there. 👍👍👍
I was a resident back in 83. What your seeing was the handball court in the back with the holes in the wall...
How did the holes get into the wall ?
Can you go inside the prison is it allowed ?
Stop all this reading go inside the prison video tape it and show it to us
How come there's not any security cards in there ?
Why did they close the prison down why didn't they renovate it and open it back up again?
You do a nice job -- very interesting --
Fox river state penitentiary 18 years after the escape. Wow love to see it
So many parts of this prison I remember seeing in The Blues Brothers
The only part of that movie filmed in Joliet was the first 5 minutes where Belushi walks out of the prison. The rest of the movie was filmed elsewhere
That wall that you was just talking about that has holes in it that is in the yard. That's a handball court
Exactly
I used to haul steel from a mill close by there back in the 80s.
Good video and thank you. I I like prison break tv series and that's why I see this video
Wow cool upload Paul thanks! This is gonna be interesting 🙂
The building across the street use to be known as the annex.
used for what? do you know/
Seems like in a high school class we took a bus trip to the prison. Might have been in a summer school class for social something and economics. Really long time ago.
It also was the filming location for prison break season 1
My ex-girlfriend who still lives in Joliet her grandfather worked at Joliet & Statesville. He knew Gacy & Speck. Her father was 1 of the members that the movie The bike riders is based on.
“‘The Blues Brothers? Sheeeeeeeeet!”
They still owe you money, fool!
are you finished riding trains? i still watch your older train videos. thank you.
Loved the video
Btw your Road over there is horrible
I guess it easier to break in than break out.
Thanks
I liked it. Who was there with you?
I was there in its prime it looked the same 😢
That was a great looking prison.
This is Al Capones old home Juliet...
Was there a cemetery on the property with headstones?
Its fortress appearance reminds me of the (former?) prison in Deer Lodge, Montana.
Do you know when electric lights came in to the prison and when running water came in
Wow THE ORIGINAL JOINT❤
Elk's Club @1:05 on the right...
Dramatic and creepy
Walk for Miles to get around this place holy Molly it is biggg
Yea that bick part was the racquet ball court. I was there 1986-87. Food was terrible there compared to other max sec institutions.
My heart says, if I were a criminal, I would be a prisoner in this beautiful jail
It's unfortunate the buildings are not accessible, maybe with some much needed work and donations this can be possible.
The building is full of asbestos
"I get out of prison and my brother comes to pick me up in a police car!"
37.35 is a handball court.
That's a great venue for concerts lately
Isn't this prison where they filmed the beginning of the Johnny Depp movie where he played John Dillinger ?
The 2 walls at 37:13 were hand ball walls to play handball.
It's been there over 100 years it takes a bunch of assholes to destroy it.
can I use a small portion of this video for a music video?
@@RikaShae RikaShae, yes, as long as you cite the URL and name of this video in your music video. Also, your video should not use any part that has my voice (unless you mute it).
@ thank you, will just be the video no audio
In 1999, almost every building was reroofed.
How do you know they were reroofed in 99-
Some folks even BROKE in that joint after it closed taking copper, even carpets. What a change breaking in instead of out...i bet when they finished there was not enough copper to press a PENNY...
I think they need to open it back up again.
It's beautiful! Turn it into a mall or theme park 😂
Now they let the people walk around inside the prison?
Is this prison still open ?
I seriously doubt that very many men, if any were “corrected” at the Joliet Correctional Center.
@@georgesouthwick7000 , are you some kind of expert on this topic? If not, then why make such a comment as yours? Unfounded opinions are a dimension a dozen.
Spent a week there in 2000..good times..lol
East house was receiving and classification, West house was permanent housing...
Anyone know what happened to that Joliet prison film from the 80’s? It was a film crew walking around and they got to see things uncut
I actually think I just saw it
On the app medhut, which is an app that let's you watch every movie, show, documentary etc.
Prison Break!!
Mos Def 😮looks so Alike 💯
I've never seen it from the outside.
Funny how i went to watch netflix prison break and now youtube has this video front and center . ???
Spent time there in 70s It was a violent atmosphere there
I was an INMATE in 1977... some on here say they were "residents".
My own brother picks me up from the joint in a police car!
So would the execution chamber for lethal injection have been torn down then?
anybody know any hidden entry points i could use for urbexing?
My dad worked there long ago
Is your dad jail officer ?
Wish it would of related to prison break, excellent series
Why?
It’s a haunted house now for Halloween season
yep what a waste of space, should have been a mall,,,
I’ve always been fascinated and appalled at the number of Americans incarcerated since the early 1970s. That’s when all the common worker factory jobs began to disintegrate and drugs replaced useful lives. I just wish prisons were not a place where sexual and other physical and verbal assaults were allowed to occur. The criminalization of marijuana and black incarcerations based upon that to me was tragic. I wish today they’d make inmates where Axon cameras like police do. Any serious verbal abuse and harassment or physical assault garnering long term solitary confinement. Nobody deserves to live a life of assault and abuse. Nobody. You commit serious crimes financially or violent then yes do long, hard time. But not suffer torture. Should not be the American way.
The Blues Brothers.
The first 5 minutes of The Blues Brothers. That was it for Joliet
The blues brothers
Its fox river
They treated those that lived in New Orleans worst took to long to help them so many lives lost😢😢😢😢😢😢
One shot only thats ridiculous its just a building
Chris-ts8oh, what's ridiculous is your comment. "One shot only", what's that supposed to mean? "It's just a building"; if that were true (which it is not), then why did you watch a video titled "A walk through".....?
@@youtuubadont let comments rile you, just bypass. It brings you down to their level. Bet they dont have a YT page to share with others. Thanks for sharing.
I believe he was referring to the film crew only being able to take one shot of the scene. Don’t be such an assclown and assuming the worst.
@@daves2552 shut up stupi
Jake and Elwood.
glad i saw this. will bypass this tourist attraction. hoping there were more places to go through. its a bunch of locked up buildings. waste of time and $$
@@mmarczuk1976 , with THAT way of looking at historical places, I would hate to be you.
As a lifelong resident of Joliet. I can honestly say this shit hole is a stark reminder of this shit hole of a city . In 77' I lived in California and I would tell people I'm from Joliet . Their reaction was always the same " oh that city with the prison " ? Now of course the city is continuing to profit from all the misery places like this leave behind. So now I tell people I'm from anyplace BUT Joliet .
Did you live inside of the prison when you were a criminal ?
He lived an walk on theses streets as a kid...
Ironically, the same design as the Joliet High school....
I was in there in 1998
Michaelkawell, I'll alert the media.
@@youtuuba😂 😂 😂
I live in Alton
People have left their hands an feet behind escaping... Or trying to.
Over an hour and a half and no building tours. I've helped build prisons. Very disappointing. To much reading signs. Ace of Base read the signs. Not a video I would keep watching
@steventhiessen6148 , I found it tedious just reading your comment. You should have thought things out better before commenting, and filtered out the nonsense (e.g. what does you helping to build prisons have to do with a video tour of a prison? Did you "help build" THIS prison? If you have expertise, make your own videos.
Also, NOBODY cares whether you watched the whole video. And MOST people seem to think I provided the detail I did in the video.
@youtuuba I do love the tourist tour. I'm also a historian. I do appreciate the effort put in. Yes I don't know how many doors and gates are locked.
It would be nice to see it as a museum instead of a locked forgotten relic.
I am thankful the time was taken.
I went through many old abandoned forts and military places in Canada.
I really dislike abandoned locked doors and gates.
I did notice way to many of them.
Even LOUISBURG in Nova Scotia has to many abandoned locks.
Do not judge comments until you know why the comments where made.
I am an absolutely honest critic but I do love giving great reviews or cutting locks. Lol
I've heard John Wayne Gacy haunts that prison.
He was never at that Joliet prison. He served his years before execution at Menard before being transferred to Stateville for execution.
@@kathyastrom1315 then you should correct the people on destination fear. They said his ghost haunts Joliet.
@@kathyastrom1315 yes he was. he started in joliet(as all new inmates do for receiving and classification) then to menard then to stateville for execution
So who wins?
@@GreggSagge-lt6le you’d have to go at night to find that answer. If you’re into the paranormal stuff.