It’s awesome to see you go though the prison that The Shawshank Redemption was filmed in. It’s one of the best films ever made and it’s cool how places like this give tours as for many places similar to this either just shuts down again when the shooting of a film ends and nobody is allowed to go inside or the building or buildings are demolished and something else might be built in its place. Keep up the great work Chris, have a great rest of your day and take care!
I served time there from 1980 to 1984, 4 years. It was a living nightmare. The cells only had cold water, there was no hot water. A trustee would walk the ranges with a water can like they used at a gas station for filling radiators. You knew he was come cause he would be yelling "Hot Water!". The food was horrible. You would find rocks in it and Brooks wasn't joking about finding maggots in your food. Now, I know a lot of people say it's haunted, but, after being there for 4 years, I never seen or heard any ghost. Never heard any other inmates see or hear them either. So, if it is haunted, they came after I left. The thing that really surprised me was, I would see inmates return after being released and violating parole. Not me, that place straighten me right up. Another thing, it would be freezing in the winter time and scorching hot in the summer. When you first get put into population, you were celled on the second range. The first floor was to infested with rats to house inmates there. But as you did your time, you would get moved a lot. As time went by, you would slowly move up the ranges. The closer you get to the top, the closer you were to going home. But the problem was, as you moved up, the hotter it would get. My last 6 months was spent on the 6th floor, top range. It would get up to 100 degrees at night in the summer and 120-140 in the daytime. I remember when I first went in, I weighed about 240 lbs. When I got out, I weighed 125 lbs. It truly was cruel and inhumane punishment.
Yo I got there right after you left 137327 made it to j dorm worked greenhouse cut the grass around the headstones slaughterhouse 7 cows everyday 25 pigs on Wednesdays plus we had 48.000 chickens worked 7 days 18.00 bucks a month enjoy your life brother
How old were you when you did the four years? I know it was about 40 years ago. Thanks for the interesting information and for commenting on the video.
I was born and raised in Ohio so the reformatory was still in use while I was still there. I didn’t know Shawshank Redemption was filmed there. Thanks for the tour Chris
I think there is many non criminals who will never do time in a prison that would probably love to come and rent a cell for a couple of days and stay as a guest in a place like this just to have a real life experience of what convicts must have had to endure for long terms in the past . What do you think? Please reply to me
One thing I miss since converting to streaming is flicking through the channels and seeing either this movie or Goodfellas on. Seems like those two were on the most, partly because they're so good, partly because they could fill a 3 hour block with commercials. It's been about 10 years since cutting the cord, think I need to watch those soon.
I was just there a couple days ago. Never saw the movie but highly recommend touring the reformatory and paying a little extra for the Behind the Bars Tour. You won't be disappointed and all the proceeds go towards restoring the prison.
This facility is close to my home. I have visited a few times. You did a great job capturing the best points of interest of the tour. Thanks for this great, well presented video. Thanks, Chris. Great job as usual
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to take a glance of how looks like this place. I'm a fan of that movie, it's a masterpiece, I watched it several times, never tired and always noticing new details. Thank you so much
Cool video, Chris. Shanks for uploading this and bringing us along. Shawshank Redemption is such a classic movie. One of the best ever made. It was cool to see behind this scenes with your tour. Have a good weekend. Thanks for all that you do to provide us with entertaining videos.
funny how the inmates had the balls to sue this particular prison for inhumane conditions, and yet, look at the crimes they committed that brought them there in the first place. what does that tell you??
I'll just quote Mr. Dostoyevsky, because he is still right: 'A society should be judged not by how it treats it's citizens, but by the way it treats it's criminals' Of course, the US is still failing miserably on most counts. Not least because of the privatization & industrialization of punishment over actual rehabilitation.
"Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine- or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields; just shy of half a mile." Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
@@ninaappelt9001 Well Roman roads tend to be covered by a lot of soil that has built up over the many centuries. Most Roman stone stuff in Britain was robbed out to build other buildings after the Romans scurried back to Rome.
I enjoyed the movie Shawshank Redemption, and I enjoyed the tour of the prison it was filmed in. The chapels condition is so sad. I remember the video you did at the prison in New Jersey. This was very interesting! Thank you, Chris.
Hi!!! I'm from Northeast OHIO... I have rode past here. I had a friend who was a " Ghost Buster" and took his equipment there. He did find things...Nice Video!!!...🦋
I've been through the Halloween Haunt at Mansfield several years. We started the haunt on the stairs at 20:45, going up into the offices, eventually through the mess area and cells. It's a fantastic haunted attraction.
There are a few areas you need to get the guided to for them to be included. The one is a catwalk (west attic), that looks straight down you can see on the self guided tour somewhat through a door up on the top tier. Plus you were able to go in the yard and the guard tower (weather permitting though). Also the sub basement. I did the self guided and can't wait to go back and see the rest. One thing I learned was the shower scene where andy meets Boggs. That shower room actually you do not stay in place that one was called the car wash. As you actually walk continually supposedly to prevent soap dropping or things of the sort. Along with in theory at least a more efficient and consistent time for people to go through.
They got the math wrong at the end. 500 yards = 1,500 feet, which is not "just shy of half of a mile" which would be 880 yards or 2,640 feet. Also, when Andy crawls out of his cell and breaks open the pipe with a rock, sewage sprays everywhere and is pressurized....yet how? The other end of the pipe was completely open, so that was impossible. One of my favorite movies, but they messed up on a lot of details that I would have expected them to get right. The opera song that Andy Dufresne plays over the loud speakers is Canzonetta Sull'aria from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro".
Great video man thank you so much. I love that movie. You have no idea how many times I watched it maybe 50 times that’s no joke. I wonder how they ended up with that boat and did they fix it up?
in the 70s i had a bad drug problem and i was here for 4 long yrs roaches crawling out of ur eggs on yhe plate ..violent stabbings rapes in the shower screams at night from new guys getting raped ...taught me to behave for the rest of my life..
Thanks very much for your video. I've watched just about every documentary ever made on the Mansfield Reformatory. Learning about the various stages of Work Farm to Incarceration, etc. It's fascinating! You've done a wonderful job, especially interspersing your video with cuts from the movie, great work!
I worked at the Ohio correctional prision in Lebanon ohio in 1986. As part of our orientation I did get to visit the Mansfield prision back then to see its operation. While it looked nothing like your video today it was pretty creepy even back then. It was still quite an amazing facility. The administration wing was quite fasinating and in full use in 1986. Ohio's electric chair was kept at the Lucasville prision at that time. During my orientation visit to Lucasville I was able to see it there. Shawshank is one of my all time favorite films.
Little known fact, the "Brooks was here" is not the original from the movie. The original was stolen from the building during one winter while the place was shut down and the staff created a new one
Nothing is worth even one day. I've seen the movie several times. It's always been one of my favorites. Morgan Freeman was great in this movie. Thanks Chris. I'll send you a cake.🎂
I can only imagine the psychological wear and tear of making the prisoners build their own wall to surround themselves in prison. That's pretty messed up.
Great tour. I was looking into this building after watching the movie. Must have been miserable to be an inmate there. I visited a similar one in Belfast, North Ireland.
Hey Chris!!! I believe this bumped another video out of your "Top Ten." Very well done, IMO. It's not often after watching a video, that I stand and actually applaud. I did for this one. haha! *Roll on.*
Great video as always. I've been watching your vids since the Wraith location episode. Just wondering what tour you did since I will be visiting it soon. Thanks and Keep it up!
Not catwalks. They are called tiers. The cellblock layouts of these older institutions are very similar. We have Folsom and San Quenton, still in use today.
“Everybody needs a friend in here…I could be a friend to you.” Boggs…. I literally had a boss that looked like him and talked like him. He was frightening. I watched my back.😬
It’s awesome to see you go though the prison that The Shawshank Redemption was filmed in. It’s one of the best films ever made and it’s cool how places like this give tours as for many places similar to this either just shuts down again when the shooting of a film ends and nobody is allowed to go inside or the building or buildings are demolished and something else might be built in its place. Keep up the great work Chris, have a great rest of your day and take care!
I served time there from 1980 to 1984, 4 years. It was a living nightmare. The cells only had cold water, there was no hot water. A trustee would walk the ranges with a water can like they used at a gas station for filling radiators. You knew he was come cause he would be yelling "Hot Water!". The food was horrible. You would find rocks in it and Brooks wasn't joking about finding maggots in your food. Now, I know a lot of people say it's haunted, but, after being there for 4 years, I never seen or heard any ghost. Never heard any other inmates see or hear them either. So, if it is haunted, they came after I left. The thing that really surprised me was, I would see inmates return after being released and violating parole. Not me, that place straighten me right up. Another thing, it would be freezing in the winter time and scorching hot in the summer. When you first get put into population, you were celled on the second range. The first floor was to infested with rats to house inmates there. But as you did your time, you would get moved a lot. As time went by, you would slowly move up the ranges. The closer you get to the top, the closer you were to going home. But the problem was, as you moved up, the hotter it would get. My last 6 months was spent on the 6th floor, top range. It would get up to 100 degrees at night in the summer and 120-140 in the daytime. I remember when I first went in, I weighed about 240 lbs. When I got out, I weighed 125 lbs. It truly was cruel and inhumane punishment.
Yo I got there right after you left 137327 made it to j dorm worked greenhouse cut the grass around the headstones slaughterhouse 7 cows everyday 25 pigs on Wednesdays plus we had 48.000 chickens worked 7 days 18.00 bucks a month enjoy your life brother
119753 funny how you never forget your name!
How old were you when you did the four years? I know it was about 40 years ago. Thanks for the interesting information and for commenting on the video.
I knew Andy Defresne, and Red. We use to play chess together. Than one day, our friend Brooks was unexpectedly paroled.
@@1martymcfly298 I was 18, got out when I was 22
I was born and raised in Ohio so the reformatory was still in use while I was still there. I didn’t know Shawshank Redemption was filmed there. Thanks for the tour Chris
Tells me that we have a government and a lot of local police departments that revolve around the almighty dollar.
How old are u?? U mean all this time u didn't know?
@@hammondj82most people know that it was filmed there if ur from Ohio the dude with the comment above must be young or misinformed
Made me wanna rewatch the movie. So awesome to learn about the history of this place. Thanks for touring us, Chris.
Shawshank Redemption One of the best movies ever made. 👏🏻👊🏻👍🏻
I think there is many non criminals who will never do time in a prison that would probably love to come and rent a cell for a couple of days and stay as a guest in a place like this just to have a real life experience of what convicts must have had to endure for long terms in the past . What do you think? Please reply to me
Top 3 favourite for me and funnily enough the one of the other is a prison movie as well.
It was boring
@@bogeysbaby it was for an intelligent audience!!
One thing I miss since converting to streaming is flicking through the channels and seeing either this movie or Goodfellas on. Seems like those two were on the most, partly because they're so good, partly because they could fill a 3 hour block with commercials. It's been about 10 years since cutting the cord, think I need to watch those soon.
I was just there a couple days ago. Never saw the movie but highly recommend touring the reformatory and paying a little extra for the Behind the Bars Tour. You won't be disappointed and all the proceeds go towards restoring the prison.
I can't fathom having never seen this movie, let alone touring the prison without having seen the movie. Please watch it! You won't be disappointed.
@@NeighborhoodOfBlue I plan on it!
Why r they restoring it?
This facility is close to my home. I have visited a few times. You did a great job capturing the best points of interest of the tour. Thanks for this great, well presented video. Thanks, Chris. Great job as usual
This is by far my most favorite movie of all time, the story is heartbreaking, Thank you for sharing
Great video thank you I live in Ohio myself & appreciate it when people showcase what our state has to offer
Now I gotta go rewatch that movie.
Excellent tour of one of the best movies ever made. Thanks Chris.
Wow this is one AWESOME video! From one of my all-time favorite movies. Thank you.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to take a glance of how looks like this place. I'm a fan of that movie, it's a masterpiece, I watched it several times, never tired and always noticing new details. Thank you so much
Cool video, Chris. Shanks for uploading this and bringing us along. Shawshank Redemption is such a classic movie. One of the best ever made. It was cool to see behind this scenes with your tour. Have a good weekend. Thanks for all that you do to provide us with entertaining videos.
funny how the inmates had the balls to sue this particular prison for inhumane conditions, and yet, look at the crimes they committed that brought them there in the first place. what does that tell you??
That you have no problem sounding like a sociopath
It tells me the world is topsy turvy!!!!
I'll just quote Mr. Dostoyevsky, because he is still right:
'A society should be judged not by how it treats it's citizens, but by the way it treats it's criminals'
Of course, the US is still failing miserably on most counts. Not least because of the privatization & industrialization of punishment over actual rehabilitation.
That humane conditions matter, and that torture doesn't lead to reform.
@@Ganiscol You are a good person
"Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine- or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields; just shy of half a mile." Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
He must have had a hell of an immune system.
Red never was good at math, apparently. 500 yards = 1,500 feet, which is not "just shy of half of a mile" which would be 880 yards or 2,640 feet.
I can repeat that in my soul, you can literally feel the heartache in Red's voice, beautiful comment ya know that's life for us all I'm afraid
@@AlonnahCasey one of my favorite movie quote and I can't hear it with hearing Morgan Freeman's voice. Lol
@@jodysales2362 facts cookie 🍪
Thanks for taking us on this tour with you, had no idea that movie was filmed here. I'm not too far from the area, might have to take a tour of it.
Loved this tour thanks Chris. One of my favourite movies
Thanks for sharing! Shawshank Redemption is one of my favorite movies ❤
Fascinating tour I need to visit Im about 1 hour north of Mansfield in Ohio
I'm always amazed at how quickly things deteriorate if not maintained.
Except Roman roads
@@ninaappelt9001 Well Roman roads tend to be covered by a lot of soil that has built up over the many centuries. Most Roman stone stuff in Britain was robbed out to build other buildings after the Romans scurried back to Rome.
Amazing video thanks for showing us around Chris enjoyed it as always
I enjoyed the movie Shawshank Redemption, and I enjoyed the tour of the prison it was filmed in. The chapels condition is so sad. I remember the video you did at the prison in New Jersey. This was very interesting! Thank you, Chris.
Awesome video. Thanks! Loved the Shawshank redemption movie.
My top 3 favorite movies of all time. This video was AWESOME. I have to visit before I’m done on this earth.
Hi!!! I'm from Northeast OHIO... I have rode past here. I had a friend who was a " Ghost Buster" and took his equipment there. He did find things...Nice Video!!!...🦋
That’s a great movie. Watched it for probably the 20th time last weekend
FANTASTIC..ONE OF MY FAV CHRIS,THANK YOU,,SAFE TRAVELS
Chris, you're a great documentary maker.
Shawshank is one of my favourite movies. Top 10 for sure.
I've been through the Halloween Haunt at Mansfield several years. We started the haunt on the stairs at 20:45, going up into the offices, eventually through the mess area and cells. It's a fantastic haunted attraction.
Your best video yet! Excellent presentation!
There are a few areas you need to get the guided to for them to be included. The one is a catwalk (west attic), that looks straight down you can see on the self guided tour somewhat through a door up on the top tier. Plus you were able to go in the yard and the guard tower (weather permitting though). Also the sub basement. I did the self guided and can't wait to go back and see the rest. One thing I learned was the shower scene where andy meets Boggs. That shower room actually you do not stay in place that one was called the car wash. As you actually walk continually supposedly to prevent soap dropping or things of the sort. Along with in theory at least a more efficient and consistent time for people to go through.
Shawshank is one of my favorite movies. Tombstone is my # 1 favorite. The Green Mile was great too
They got the math wrong at the end. 500 yards = 1,500 feet, which is not "just shy of half of a mile" which would be 880 yards or 2,640 feet. Also, when Andy crawls out of his cell and breaks open the pipe with a rock, sewage sprays everywhere and is pressurized....yet how? The other end of the pipe was completely open, so that was impossible. One of my favorite movies, but they messed up on a lot of details that I would have expected them to get right. The opera song that Andy Dufresne plays over the loud speakers is Canzonetta Sull'aria from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro".
the methane in that pipe would have killed him before he made it out
@@miuqe1468 That too.
Yep. This movie would have been categorized under fiction in Brooks' library.
@@minimumrage323 Right next to Alexandre Dumazz according to Heywood.
Thank you, Chris! ❤
Cool tour. Awesome to see all the cool stuff
Great video man thank you so much. I love that movie. You have no idea how many times I watched it maybe 50 times that’s no joke. I wonder how they ended up with that boat and did they fix it up?
Greatest movie of all time.
Thats a fact.
It’s a beautiful building❤
Chris Thank-you!! One of my favorite movies!! So cool to see this!!!!❤
Thank you for the wonderful video,it was an excellent movie!🤔💯👍!
I love the movie Shawshank. Thank you for sharing this with us.
You were less than a half an hour from my home. Thanks for covering the prison, and I hope you enjoyed your time in Ohio.
in the 70s i had a bad drug problem and i was here for 4 long yrs roaches crawling out of ur eggs on yhe plate ..violent stabbings rapes in the shower screams at night from new guys getting raped ...taught me to behave for the rest of my life..
Ohhh, I’ve been there numerous times, let me tell ya, some of those prisoners have never left. Serious paranormal activity there. Great vid!
Exactly
Man I love this. How they haven’t done it up and painted it.. it looks so cool. Thanks for the video!
Thanks very much for your video. I've watched just about every documentary ever made on the Mansfield Reformatory. Learning about the various stages of Work Farm to Incarceration, etc. It's fascinating! You've done a wonderful job, especially interspersing your video with cuts from the movie, great work!
My favorite movie---thank You !!!
Excellent video, Chris! I love Shawshank Redemption and Morgan Freeman so this was a real treat! ☮️❤️
Thanks for making this video. I have a big interest in architectural structures and how elegant most of them are and what the years do to them.
What a treat! Thank you for this😊
Thanks for the tour! 👍
I worked at the Ohio correctional prision in Lebanon ohio in 1986. As part of our orientation I did get to visit the Mansfield prision back then to see its operation. While it looked nothing like your video today it was pretty creepy even back then. It was still quite an amazing facility. The administration wing was quite fasinating and in full use in 1986. Ohio's electric chair was kept at the Lucasville prision at that time. During my orientation visit to Lucasville I was able to see it there. Shawshank is one of my all time favorite films.
one of my fav movies, thanks for showing this..
My grandfather was one of the physicians on call for the prison before it closed
wow
Awesome place and the movie was great.
Fantastic tour!TY
I hope you get 1 million hits on this one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on RUclips
Shawshank Redemption was one of my favorite movies all time and is one the best movies ever . Watch it alot
love this!....one of fav from your channel ...great job!
I'm a lifelong resident of Mansfield and have never taken the tour, thanks for the video.
2nd Video love prison history , I visit prisons and police stations in Scotland .
I remember seeing parts of this place from US 30 back in the 70's and 80's and gave me the shivvers !!!
Very interesting and informative, thanks for the tour Chris !
Man that brings back memories. I lived not far from there and visited that place a few times.
Amazing tour, thanks Chris!!
Little known fact, the "Brooks was here" is not the original from the movie. The original was stolen from the building during one winter while the place was shut down and the staff created a new one
Very interesting video man 🤙
I too saw this over a dozen times, the movie was written so well.
AWESOME video!!
Nothing is worth even one day. I've seen the movie several times. It's always been one of my favorites. Morgan Freeman was great in this movie. Thanks Chris. I'll send you a cake.🎂
Very cool. Remember first seeing this place on Scariest Places 07. GH was there in 05 but didn’t name it. GA followed with 09. 👻
Fantastic video I'm a big fan of Shawshank movie. Thank you for sharing ☮️
I can only imagine the psychological wear and tear of making the prisoners build their own wall to surround themselves in prison. That's pretty messed up.
Great tour. I was looking into this building after watching the movie. Must have been miserable to be an inmate there. I visited a similar one in Belfast, North Ireland.
Oh yeah did 4 years 84 88
Thank you Chris!! Great tour. Very informative. I've seen the movie About a dozen Times. 💓
I love this movie. That was so cool 😎 to watch. Thanks, Chris. appreciated 😊😊
Hey Chris!!! I believe this bumped another video out of your "Top Ten." Very well done, IMO. It's not often after watching a video, that I stand and actually applaud. I did for this one. haha! *Roll on.*
excellent video. very enjoyable. thank you
Awesome video thanks for sharing this !
Shawshank, one of the best films ever made. I remember seeing it when first released.
THE PRISON JAILS LOOKED LIKE A GIANT HUMAN ,,BIRD CAGE LOOKING UP AND DOWN.. THANKS ,, CHRIS...
Great video as always. I've been watching your vids since the Wraith location episode. Just wondering what tour you did since I will be visiting it soon. Thanks and Keep it up!
Really well done~thank you❗️
Not catwalks. They are called tiers. The cellblock layouts of these older institutions are very similar. We have Folsom and San Quenton, still in use today.
Can you plz do one on al copones old hotel on Michigan and cermack in chicago plz try thank you mobile instinct your awesome
One of my favorite films 🎬
Thanks
Probably your best video.
Never seen the movie all the way through. Something i need ro do. But love old places. I want to check out Moundsville.
Brooks was here, So was Red, Now Chris.
very well done........ thankyou
I visited this place before and it is huge plus you can take haunted ghost tours also
Great video. Enjoyed it very much. 👍
This is really interesting, thank you
This was a Great Story of a Movie. They dont make Movies no more like this!
My Dad was there in the late 60s and my brother did two years there in the late 80s right before they closed it down.
That was a great movie!!
Insane looking prison
It seems to me that the old Shawshank building/prison should be refurbished/restored and utilized again but with the right number of inmates.
“Everybody needs a friend in here…I could be a friend to you.” Boggs…. I literally had a boss that looked like him and talked like him. He was frightening. I watched my back.😬